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On August 1st, 1944, the single largest military resistance during World War II began in Warsaw, Poland. \u00a0As World Youth Day concludes, an event filled with great joy and hope, today marks the seventy-second anniversary of a glorious uprising that ended tragically. \u00a0Today\u2019s anniversary, as well as the events of World War II, remind us that evil is present in the world, and that evil can quickly and effectively take away our joy and hope (if we allow it to do so).<\/p>\nMonument recalling all child soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The Warsaw Uprising lasted sixty-three days and resulted in the destruction of the city and the death of over 200,000 civilians. \u00a0The Polish resistance fought bravely. \u00a0The Soviet Army, which was encamped right outside Warsaw, never came to the aid of its supposed ally. \u00a0Despite pleas presented to the the British by the Polish government in London, no assistance arrived. \u00a0The Polish resistance would have to fight the Germans alone and eventually surrender. \u00a0After the uprising, eighty-five percent of the city would be destroyed.<\/p>\n
In 1983, the statue of a young soldier was placed in downtown Warsaw commemorating the many child soldiers who fought during the Uprising. \u00a0Today, I visited this statue and had lunch at a restaurant across the street from it. \u00a0During the hour that I was there, people constantly visited the statue, especially groups of children and families with small children. \u00a0Some left flowers, others lit candles to recall the memory of the many valiant men and women who resisted the Nazi regime.<\/p>\n
The joy and hope of World Youth Day seem to lessen when the recent history of Poland is considered. \u00a0The Pope\u2019s silent visit to Auschwitz was a somber reminder of the atrocities committed in this beautiful land. \u00a0Only 3,ooo of 63,000 Jews who lived in Krakow in 1939 were alive in 1945. \u00a0Of the 165 Jesuits who lived in Krakow, only six survived Nazi rule, all others were executed. \u00a0The Nazis not only murdered\u00a0the Jewish population, but wished to eradicate Polish culture as Poland became part of the German Fatherland. \u00a0From the beginning, the Nazis executed Polish scholars, teachers, and clergy, as well as\u00a0anyone who opposed their regime.<\/p>\nPicture of Warsaw\u2019s destroyed old city after the Uprising<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
In 1939, Warsaw had the largest Jewish population of the world with about 400,000. \u00a0In 1945, there were 5,000 left, almost all having been killed in death camps.<\/p>\n
After World War II, the Soviets entered and\u00a0until 1989, the Polish people endured the hardships of communist rule. \u00a0Anyone familiar with the life of Saint John Paul II understands these difficult times. \u00a0The Germans left, but the Soviets continued a brutal and totalitarian rule that committed innumerable injustices and took the lives of thousands.<\/p>\n
There has been great evil and suffering in these lands. \u00a0It is a reminder that the wheat and the chaff do coexist: evil and goodness are both present in the world. \u00a0The joy and hope of World Youth Day coexists with the deep suffering of the past. \u00a0However, they do not just have to coexist, but God\u2019s grace\u00a0produces the\u00a0joy and hope necessary to bring healing.<\/p>\nTomb of Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, Saint Stanislaus Kostka Church, Warsaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Perhaps the best advice when confronted with this reality is the advice from Saint Paul who wrote, \u201cdo not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.\u201d \u00a0Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, a Polish priest murdered by the government in 1984 (whose tomb I visited today), understood\u00a0and lived out this advice, and made it his own by preaching often these words, \u201cfight evil with good.\u201d \u00a0Living this way cost him his earthly life.<\/p>\n
May the souls of all those who died due to injustice, prejudice and hatred rest in peace.<\/p>\n
On August 1st, 1944, the single largest military resistance during World War II began in Warsaw, Poland. \u00a0As World Youth Day concludes, an event filled with great joy and hope, today marks the seventy-second anniversary of a glorious uprising that ended tragically. \u00a0Today\u2019s anniversary, as well as the events of World War II, remind us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2533,"featured_media":1962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[419,422,423,420,404,421,418,163],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-blessed-jerzy-popieluszko","tag-evil","tag-goodness","tag-holocaust","tag-krakow","tag-warsaw","tag-warsaw-uprising","tag-world-youth-day"],"yoast_head":"\n
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