Exhibit 8

The Polish Boy

Peter L. Fischl, a Holocaust survivor first saw the photograph of the "Little Polish Boy" in the late 1960s in a Life Magazine. Shaken he immediately identified with the "Little Polish Boy." For four or five years he struggled with the boy in the photograph, often talking to him. Early one morning, Peter went to his typewriter and wrote the poem "To the Little Polish Boy Standing with His Arms Up" so that millions could not remain indifferent and silent in the face of senseless, outrageous carnage of the Holocaust.

"If we are not to be victims, then our only choices are to be perpetrators of evil and injustice, indifferent bystanders who allow it to exist in our world or rescuers and upstanders who act to end it."

Houston Holocaust Museum

Perpetrator: a person who chooses to do harm to someone

Bystander: a person who witnesses the harm, but does nothing to intervene.

Rescuers: a person who witnesses the harm and take action to intervene.

Answer the following questions:

Based on what you have observed in the photograph, list 3 things that you might INFER from this photo.

Any study of the Holocaust recognizes 3 elements. Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. How are they all represented in the poem? In the poster? What do you know about their contributions to the Holocaust?

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