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León Poplawski

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Description

Leon Poplawski was born in Hajnowka near Byalistok, Poland. From an early age he felt the rigors of war. He searched for food for the family as early as 9 years old, crossing snowy fields and risking his life, but he had a sharp mind and knew how to sneak out of danger. When they were taken on a cattle train bound for the Treblinka extermination camp with his entire family, he escaped with his four siblings through a loose piece of wood from the roof of one of the wagons. An official at the station had warned him that they were heading for certain death. It was during a snowy night in the middle of the Polish countryside. In throwing himself off the train, Leon suffered a hernia that lasted throughout the war. On one occasion, Leon was inside a house where they were going to give him food and the Nazis arrived. He hid in the chimney and the commandant came in and said it was cold, light the chimney. Leon climbed up the chimney as best he could or he would be burned alive and was saved as he had been so many times before by his quick thinking, his physical quickness and his bravery. He also managed to hide with his family in barns, especially in one of them in which they placed a false door, where they stayed during the day and at night they went to look for food for them and for their benefactors, a farmer with 7 children. Feeding them all was the condition for hiding them. That door was opened by the Nazis at a certain moment and they all held their breath, hidden and with great reflection of the sun they did not see them, which was a miracle. In addition, they would go out in the dark nights, begging for food at peasants' houses, making a lot of noise to make it look like there were many of them and with wooden shotguns painted black. In this way they frightened those who lived in the houses and obtained food that they had to share with those who were hiding them. His sister died in one of the barns and he never heard from his parents again. León ended his life at an advanced age in the Hogar Israelita del Uruguay. He was also an early member of the Holocaust Remembrance Center of Uruguay. Testimony: He gave many talks to young people for many years. "I want to tell them what happened in the Shoah (Holocaust) so that it will be spread and in turn they will tell the next generations so that it will not be forgotten". Montevideo - Uruguay 2020 aaronsosa.eth.co www.aaronsosaphotography.com Digital Photography Size: 6000 x 4000px 300 DPI About this project: In the history of mankind there can be found no other crime so heinous, nor so coldly calculated, as the one that as that which annihilated millions of human beings in the Nazi concentration camps. This project has allowed me to enter for a brief moment into the lives of an important group of these exiles and survivors, who arrived in Latin American lands many years ago to start a new life; and who have given me the honor of knowing a little about them and their experiences, as well as to photograph them and immortalize them through photography. So far in minting this collection I have been able to portray 58 survivors: 20 from Venezuela 25 from Uruguay 13 from Argentina The first part of the survivors that arrived in Venezuela were minted as 1/1 NFTs on the ETH blockchain. I have decided to make the survivors that arrived in Uruguay available in editions of 50 on the Tezos blockchain and the survivors from Argentina will be minted later. My intention with the sale of the NFTs is to self-finance the project to give it continuity. Soon I must travel to Chile where there are 13 survivors waiting to be portrayed and then continue moving around Latin America to continue with the project. Another of the main objectives is to finance the printing of a book that gathers all the portraits, biographies and testimonies of each survivor. License: NFT holders are free to use it in advertising, private exhibition, in groups, virtual galleries, magazines or any other digital or physical media by the NFT holder, as long as the original artist is credited and be communicated by e-mail aaronsosaphotographer@gmail.com. No merchandising, commercial distribution or derivatives are allowed. Copyright remains with the creator.