Jiannis ✝️👨‍👩‍👧‍👧🇬🇷📖🔬🔭💻

lasst es sein, versteht eh keiner
ανίκανος ελλήν μαθητής Ιησού ασπαζόντας την σύντομην παρουσίαν του. Μαραναθά!

[Gerrit Keferstein @mitodoc]

Wer hat es nicht schon erlebt? Eisenmangel: gereizt, antriebslos, alles zu viel. Schilddrüsenunterfunktion: morgens kaum hochkommen, alles grau. Schlafentzug: dünnhäutig, lösungsblind, emotional instabil.

Alle diese Zustände haben eines gemeinsam: Dem Gehirn fehlt Energie.

Dein Gehirn ist 2% deiner Körpermasse. Aber es verbraucht 20% deiner Gesamtenergie. Es hat die höchste Mitochondriendichte aller Organe. Es ist kein "Denkapparat". Es ist ein Stoffwechselorgan.

Wenn der Stoffwechsel nicht liefert, bricht als erstes die kognitive Flexibilität ein. Du siehst weniger Lösungen. Du wirst gereizt. Du verlierst Antrieb. Das ist keine Charakterschwäche. Das ist Biologie.

Watson et al. haben das 2021 im American Journal of Psychiatry gezeigt: Drei simple Marker der Insulinresistenz (TG/HDL-Ratio, Nüchternglukose, Bauchumfang) sagen das Auftreten einer ersten depressiven Episode voraus. Bei 601 Menschen ohne jede psychiatrische Vorgeschichte. Über 9 Jahre. HR 1.89 für die TG/HDL-Ratio. Wer neu Prädiabetes entwickelte: 2.66-faches Risiko.

Depression ist keine reine Kopfsache. Sie hat oft metabolische und immunologische Wurzeln. Und die sind messbar. Standard-Labor. Kein Spezialist nötig.

Erster Schritt: Eisen, Schilddrüse, B12 prüfen lassen. Dann Insulinresistenz adressieren: Bewegung nach dem Essen, mehr Naturkontakt, Schlaf vertiefen, Licht am Morgen, Dunkelheit am Abend, Bauchumfang reduzieren. Stimmung folgt Energie. 

Mentale Gesundheit und Stoffwechselgesundheit sind untrennbar. Genau das (und vieles mehr) lehren wir in der CHRONISCH GESUND Ausbildung. Stoffwechsel, Immunsystem, Nervensystem als untrennbare Einheiten. Laborguide. Mikronährstoffguide uvm. 25+ Kurse.

Link im Profil.

Erster Laborwert, den ihr bei depressiven Patienten anfordert?

[Gerrit Keferstein @mitodoc]

"Rational" klingt wie ein Kompliment. Ist es aber nicht.

Das Wort kommt vom lateinischen ratio. Und ratio heißt: Rechnung. Bilanz. Kassenbuch. Erst über das griechische "logos" wurde daraus der Königsbegriff der Philosophie.

Hume hat es am klarsten gesagt: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions." Ratio soll Dienerin sein. Nicht Herrscherin.

Das klingt unbequem. Aber es beschreibt genau, was passiert, wenn man es andersherum versucht.

Wer seine Ratio vom Körper trennt, von den eigenen Passionen, vom Lebendigen in sich, der betritt den Funktionsmodus. Man funktioniert. Man reagiert. Man rechnet. Aber man LEBT nicht. Die Ratio ohne Verbindung zum Lebendigen wird Sklave äußerer Umstände. Das ist das NPC-Phänomen.

Souveränität entsteht anders: wenn die Ratio zum Vermittler wird. Zwischen dem Lebendigen in dir und der Welt. Zwischen Unterbewusstem und Bewusstem. Körper und Geist als Einheit.

Das ist Embodied Cognition. Das ist die Verbindung, die den vitalen, gesunden, souveränen Menschen ausmacht.

Nicht die Ratio aufgeben. Sondern sie wieder mit dem verbinden, was lebendig ist.

Link im Profil.

Wie sorgst du dafür, dass deine "Ratio" den richtigen Herrscher hat?

[Άρτεμις @587Artemis]

In Book 23 of the Iliad, at line 428, there is the verb “dēleomai”, meaning “to destroy.” The root of the word “dēlētērion” (“poison”) derives from it. The Romans adopted it as “deleo”, meaning “I destroy/erase.” And on our keyboards, we have “Delete.”🇬🇷language lives everywhere

[Άρτεμις @587Artemis]

Στην ραψωδία Ψ της Ιλιάδας,στον στίχο 428,υπάρχει το ρήμα ''δηλέομαι'' που σημαίνει ''καταστρέφω''.Η ρίζα της λέξης ''δηλητήριο'' προέρχεται από αυτό.Οι Λατίνοι το πήραν ως deleo=σκοτώνω.Στο πληκτρολόγιό μας υπάρχει το ''Delete"' Η επιβλητική συνέχεια της γλώσσας μας ζει παντού!

[Jiannis ✝️👨‍👩‍👧‍👧🇬🇷📖🔬🔭💻 @JBisto]

@LViehler Ja

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The August sun lay heavy over the whitewashed walls of Otranto on August 11 in 1480, baking the dust into the blood. The streets were choked with bodies—men in torn doublets, women clutching lifeless infants, children whose cries had already gone silent. Across the harbor, the banners of the Ottoman Empire rippled in the sea breeze, their crimson field and crescent moon stark against the blue of the Adriatic. The city’s gates, battered and splintered, hung useless on their hinges. Behind them, in the cathedral square, eight hundred men stood bound in rows, their faces set, eyes fixed on the horizon. A Turkish officer read the final demand: embrace Islam or face the sword. When no one stepped forward, the blades began their work.
. . .

Otranto had been the sentinel of Italy’s heel for centuries, a fortified port guarding the narrow channel between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas. On July 28, 1480, a fleet of roughly ninety Ottoman galleys appeared offshore, carrying an invasion force of eighteen thousand under the command of Gedik Ahmed Pasha. The target was not merely a provincial town but the gateway to the Kingdom of Naples—and, potentially, all of Italy.

Mehmet II, “the Conqueror” of Constantinople, had turned his gaze westward. If Otranto fell, nothing stood between the Sultan’s armies and the papal states.

The siege began with cannon fire that shook the very limestone foundations of the walls. For fifteen days the defenders, numbering perhaps six thousand including civilians, resisted with crossbow bolts, arquebus fire, and boiling oil poured from the battlements. The city’s governor, Count Francesco Largo, fell early in the fighting, leaving Archbishop Stefano Pendinelli to rally both soldiers and townsfolk. Chroniclers tell of the archbishop walking the ramparts in full vestments, carrying the relics of St. Stephen and offering absolution to the dying. But the walls could not withstand the relentless pounding. On August 11, a breach yawned open, and the Ottoman troops surged in.

What followed was indiscriminate slaughter. An estimated twelve thousand inhabitants were killed outright; five thousand more—mostly women and children—were chained for the slave markets of the Islamic world. The surviving men of fighting age, some eight hundred in number, were herded together. According to Italian and later Vatican accounts, they were offered their lives in exchange for conversion to Islam. Their spokesman, a humble tailor named Antonio Primaldo, answered for them all: they would remain faithful to Christ, whatever the cost.

One by one, they were beheaded outside the city walls, their bodies left as a warning and their heads sent to the Sultan.

The sack of Otranto shocked all of Christendom. Pope Sixtus IV called for a crusade, while Ferdinand I of Naples and the kings of Spain scrambled to reinforce their coasts. Yet, providentially, the wider Ottoman campaign stalled; Mehmet II died unexpectedly the following year, and in 1481 a Neapolitan force retook the ruined city.

Still, the memory of those August days lingered. Otranto became a symbol—the last Italian city to fall to a Muslim army, and the place where, in the eyes of contemporaries, the fate of Europe teetered on a knife’s edge. In time, the eight hundred would be canonized as the Martyrs of Otranto, their bones enshrined in the cathedral.

© Tony Valerino

#archaeohistories

[Marie @kripp_m]

💥Jeffrey Tucker hat gerade enthüllt, dass die Spitzen der FDA und des NIH ihm den wahren Grund für die Corona-Sperren, Maskenpflicht und soziale Distanzierung leise gestanden haben.

Es klingt wie eine „verrückte Verschwörungstheorie“.

Aber es ist die Wahrheit.

Der wahre Grund dafür war, den Beginn der natürlichen Immunität zu verzögern.

Warum?

„Es sollte verhindern, dass wir eine natürliche Fähigkeit entwickeln, dem Virus zu widerstehen. So konnten sie warten, bis die Injektion verfügbar war, um sie an uns zu testen und sich den Verdienst für die Lösung des Problems zu sichern.“

„Die Kurve abflachen bedeutete, den Schmerz zu verlängern und die Lösung zu verzögern.“

Es klingt verrückt, bis du es von Leuten hörst, die vor Ort in den Behörden und Unternehmen waren und alles mitangesehen haben.

Mehrere Quellen haben das bestätigt, ohne den geringsten Zweifel, dass das der wahre Zweck der Schulschließungen war.

– „der Geschäftsschließungen.“

– „der Zuhause-Bleib-Befehle“.

„Die Reisebeschränkungen.“

Um den Punkt zu verzögern, an dem wir das Problem im Wesentlichen durch natürliche Exposition und Immunitäts-Upgrades gelöst hätten.“

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, the Incarnation was the most offensive doctrine in Christianity to me. God, becoming a man? Degrading. I mocked it.

Then a widow from Moab explained it to me.

Ruth. Foreigner. Broke. No future. And an old law the Quran never carried: the kinsman-redeemer. If you fell into ruin, a relative could buy you out of it and bring you into his family. Ruth 4.

But the redeemer had to qualify. Three conditions:
ABLE to pay.

WILLING to pay.

And RELATED. Family. No outsiders allowed.

Boaz was all three, and Ruth the foreigner ended up in the family line of King David, and of Jesus Himself. Matthew 1:5.

Now run my rescue through those three conditions.
Able to pay for my sin? Only God.

Willing? Only love.

RELATED? Then God… has to become… one of us.

A God who stays in heaven can pity me. Only a God who becomes my RELATIVE can buy me back.

It’s as if He made the law and decided to play by it Himself.

“Since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise partook of the same things.” Hebrews 2:14.

The doctrine I mocked was the mechanism of my rescue.

He became my brother to become my Redeemer. And He paid in full.

[AMERICAN VALUES ALLIANCE @XAmericanValues]

TAQIYYA IS THE PRACTICE OF LYING TO NON-MUSLIMS (INFIDELS) TO FURTHER THE ISLAMIC AGENDA OF WORLD DOMINATION

Abrogation, called naskh in Arabic, is the Islamic doctrine that later Quranic verses cancel and replace earlier ones. The Quran itself states this in Surah 2:106: “We do not abrogate a verse or cause it to be forgotten except that We bring forth one better than it or similar to it.”

When Muhammad was weak in Mecca, the early verses preached restraint. Surah 2:256 says, “There is no compulsion in religion.” Those words are still quoted today to Western audiences as proof that Islam is peaceful.

Once Muhammad gained military and political power in Medina, later verses reversed the earlier stance.

Surah 9:5 commands, “Kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush.”

Surah 9:29 orders fighting the People of the Book “until they give the jizyah (the subjugation tax) willingly while they are humbled.”

Classical Muslim scholars treated these Medinan fighting commands as abrogating the earlier tolerance verses. The chronological order is not accidental. Tolerance applied when Muslims were weak. Domination applied when they became strong.

Taqiyya works hand in hand with this system. It is the doctrine of precautionary concealment and deception toward non-Muslims when openness would hinder the advance of Islam.

Surah 3:28 allows believers to show outward friendliness to disbelievers “except when taking precaution against them.” Surah 16:106 permits verbal denial of the faith under pressure while the heart remains firm.

Devout Muslims who follow the original intent understand the distinction. Early peaceful verses are useful for public presentation in the West. The later verses of jihad and subjugation remain the operative commands once power is secured. Quoting only the abrogated verses while knowing the later ones control is not ignorance. It is strategic deception authorized by the doctrine itself.

Biblical revelation contains no parallel system. Jesus and the apostles never authorized canceling prior moral commands or systematically concealing the faith’s true claims in order to gain advantage over outsiders. Christian confession under pressure has historically chosen open testimony, even at the cost of life.

The combination of naskh and taqiyya produces a permanent asymmetry. Non-Muslims are presented with a carefully selected public face of restraint. The internal tradition knows the later commands of fighting and domination take priority. That is not a modern invention. It has operated from the beginning of the faith.

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[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

If your brain won't shut off, it's cortisol.
If you can't stop overthinking, it's cortisol.
If you second-guess everything, it's cortisol.

Here's how to fix all three at once:

1. Take a 10-minute walk without your phone.

[Matthew LaBosco @matthew_labosco]

If your face is puffy, it's cortisol.
If your belly won't shift, it's cortisol.
If you're wired but tired, it's cortisol.

Here's how to fix all three at once:

1. No food 3 hours before bed.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

It has been 50 years since this photo was taken. Palestinian terrorists invaded the Lebanese Christian town of Damour and massacred 582 Christian civilians.

It was an apocalypse, said a priest who survived the massacre.

“They were coming in thousands, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar! Let us attack them for the Arabs, let us offer a holocaust to Mohammad.’

They were slaughtering everyone, men, women and children.”

Men were lined up against the walls of their homes and gunned down.

Women were tortured and gang-raped.

Babies were shot in the back of the head.

Pregnant women had their babies cut out of the womb.

Just one of the many massacres committed against Christians by Palestinians. This is how Muslims became the majority in Lebanon.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Neuroscientists found a brain region that physically grows when you do things you don't want to do. It shrinks when you stop.

It's called the anterior midcingulate cortex. It's smaller in people who struggle to delay gratification. It gets bigger when obese people diet. It's larger in elite athletes. And in superagers, people in their 80s with the memory of 50 year olds, it refuses to atrophy.

Here's the detail almost everyone misses. Hard things you enjoy don't grow it. A runner who loves running gets nothing from a 10 mile run. The region only responds to resisted effort, the workout you wanted to skip, the task you kept putting off. The suck is the signal.

That's also why disciplined days feel identical. The aMCC doesn't care about novelty or intensity. It responds to repeated effort against your own resistance. Habit is the wrong word for what's happening. You're building tissue.

And it runs in reverse. Avoid enough hard things and the region weakens, which makes the next hard thing feel harder, which makes you avoid it more. Researchers studying aging brains found that where you sit on the apathy versus tenacity spectrum predicts how well your brain holds up over decades.

Some neuroscientists call the aMCC the seat of the will to live.

The days look the same because that's what the training looks like. The years look different because that's what the tissue does.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There’s a scene from the 1960 film version of The Time Machine that has been haunting my dreams of late.

In the film, the Time Traveller (Rod Taylor) has traveled almost a million years into the future, expecting that when he arrived he would find an advanced civilisation marked by the pursuit of learning. Instead, he finds the Eloi, a race of simple creatures in togas who are bred like cattle, and eaten, by the subterranean Morlocks.

In the film’s most harrowing scene, he’s taken by one of the Eloi to a centuries-old library housing the last books in existence, which crumble to dust in his hands.

“What have you done?” the Time Traveller demands, as the dreams of centuries turn to ash. “Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating! A million years, the sensitive men dying for their dreams, for what? So you can swim, and dance, and play.”

In the last couple weeks I see a lot of men on this platform arguing with a straight face that we should let AI generate our writing for us, that it’s the future, that there’s no fighting it. And I need you all to know that THIS is the ultimate end of a world in which everyone has machines write for them. There will be no more thinking, no more creative expression, no more art or literature. It’s what C. S. Lewis called “the abolition of man.” We will be no different from cattle and our libraries will turn to dust.

When ease and entertainment become the highest good, it’s not shocking that people will find clever ways to avoid work and study. But nor should it be surprising when the ultimate fate of the Eloi becomes our own.

[Rafail Kaliviotis @rkaliviotis]

Διέρρευσε βίντεο του ισλαμιστή δημάρχου της Νέας Υόρκης που επί της ουσίας αναλύει πώς κορόιδεψαν τους λευκούς προοδευτικούς για να ανέβουν στην εξουσία. Έχουν απόλυτη συναίσθηση τι κάνουν και δεν έχουν κανένα πρόβλημα να χρησιμοποιήσουν την τακίγια (ψέματα για να επιβληθεί ο ισλαμισμός) για να επικρατήσουν.

[Sophia Apologetics ♱ @orthodox22790]

Q: What is Hell?

Answer: Hell is the non-participation of God.

“& you should also know this, that God does not punish anybody in the world to come, but each person makes himself capable of participation in God. Participation in God is joy; non-participation in Him is hell."

Source : St. John Damascene, Against the Manichaeans, in: J.-P. Migne (ed.), Patrologiae cursus completus (Tomus XCIV, Paris: Garnier Fratres, 1864), 1545D-1548A.

In Orthodox Christianity, God is impossible to access in and of Himself(Essence), for He is known only inwardly within Himself. But we can access him through his Divine Powers and Energies (which are not created by him, but are uncreated and belong to him). The same divine energy acts as light to the souls of those who abide in Him, while it acts like a burning fire to the souls of those who do not abide in Him. Thus, in Orthodox Christianity, Hell is not defined as a place of torment for satisfying a vengeful God.

On the contrary, Hell is a state of swimming in God's divine energy, just as much as Heaven is. The difference is not in the Divine Power itself, the difference is in the individual and his preparation to endure that Power. I like to describe it with the following parable.

If someone has prepared themselves with oil/sun lotion, the sun will give them a glowing tan. But if someone has not prepared, and go out in the sun, they will get burned. It is the same sun, the same light, the same heat that affects both individuals, the difference is that one prepared himself, the other didn't. The same goes with God's judgment which he executes as the power of burning love. If the people are prepared (good-willed and good-mannered) they will receive that burning love in the form of endless light and glory.

But those who are not prepared will receive that same portion of grace but will not withstand the heat of it, for them it will be an unquenchable burning flame that consumes them and purifies them.

[U.M. OSINT @ungemeve]

ℹ️ Leserfrage: Israel setzt Glyphosat ein

Ich wurde per Mitglieder-PN und per Mail überraschend oft danach gefragt, dass Israel Glyphosat versprüht.
Da ich dazu bereits mehrfach etwas erklärt habe, nur ein Posting.

Die Fragen gehen wohl auf einen Artikel der Süddeutschen Zeitung zurück. Diese hat am 02.08.2026 aus dem Dorf Samdaniah berichtet. Das liegt in der entmilitarisierten Zone auf der syrischen Seite der Golanhöhen. Ähnliches wurde auch aus dem Süden des Libanons berichtet.

▶️ Die Berichte gehen auf das letzte Jahr zurück, die Hinweise kamen im Februar dieses Jahres. Es geht also nicht um jetzt, sondern um die Zeit der massiven Kämpfe 2025.

Selbstverständlich ist das für die örtlichen Bauern katastrophal.
Das Problem ist hier aber, wie so häufig in Nahost, die mangelnde Erklärung und die Einseitigkeit.

Die Propaganda dreht das Ganze nämlich und behauptet, dass es Israel darum ginge, die Nahrungsmittelversorgung zu unterbinden. Doch die Gebiete sind im Vergleich so klein, dass sie die Nahrungsmittelproduktion eines ganzen Landes gar nicht gefährden können.

Ich habe versucht, das grafisch zu verdeutlichen. Ich finde aber keine Kartenvorlage, die zeigt, wie klein die Gebiete sind, über die wir hier sprechen. Und wie riesig Syrien im Vergleich dazu ist.
Daher habe ich mit zwei KI diskutiert. Die Schätzungen der Fläche, auf der Glyphosat ausgebracht wurde, gehen aufgrund der veröffentlichten Daten von 30ha bis 100ha.
Der Libanon hat etwa 134.000ha Ackerland und Syrien 4.400.000ha.
Das ist die Relation, über die wir hier sprechen.

▶️ Und nur um ein militärisches Schmankerl einzubauen: Die IDF haben keine Maschinen, um Glyphosat auszubringen. Sie müssen also zivile Agrar-Flieger beauftragen.

Es wird berichtet, Israel habe mehrere Tonnen Glyphosat ausgebracht. Die USA haben alleine im Vietnamkrieg über 70.000 Tonnen Herbizide ausgebracht. (19 Millionen Gallonen)
Herbizide wurden auch schon von Großbritannien eingesetzt und ebenso bei der Bekämpfung des Kokain-Anbaus in Kolumbien.

▶️ Militärisch ist das ausschließlich dann sinnvoll, wenn dadurch Deckung genommen wird. Der Bewuchs dient zur Tarnung von Kämpfern, Raketenwerfern und Tunneleingängen.

Und mit diesem Ziel ist es auch kriegsrechtlich erlaubt.
Das ergibt sich u.a. aus dem Chemiewaffenübereinkommen (CWC) und ab Artikel 52 der Genfer Konventionen Zusatzprotokoll I. Da wird es dann – typisch juristisch – wirr, denn es gibt Ausnahmen, aber wieder Ausnahmen von den Ausnahmen.

▶️ Unterm Strich bleibt: Zu einem militärischen Zweck und um die Möglichkeit der Deckung zu nehmen, ist es erlaubt.

Das macht die Perspektive der journalistischen Berichterstattung deutlich.
Da sitzen Bauern in einer aktiven Kampfzone eines Krieges wie gegen die Hisbollah, oder in einer durch die UN (!) entmilitarisierte Zone und glauben, wenn dort Kombattanten auf ihren Äckern herumlaufen oder sogar Bunker bauen, könnten sie ja weiter ihr Zeug anbauen. Was sollen sie auch sonst machen? Die Staaten entschädigen sie aber auch nicht dafür, wie auch der Bauer in der Süddeutschen bestätigt.
Die Medien berichten dann darüber, anstatt das wer, wo und warum zu erklären. Oder auch nur in eine vernünftige Relation zu setzen. Geschwiege denn mal bei den Staaten oder der Hisbollah anzufragen.

Israel setzt Glyphosat ein, wird das sicher auch weiterhin tun, so lange es akut bedroht wird und es militärisch sinnvoll ist, und im Grunde müsste jeder einzelne Einsatz auf die militärische Notwendigkeit geprüft werden.
Nach den Erfahrungen der letzten Jahren mit den Operationen der IDF habe ich aber eine Vorstellung davon, was dabei herauskommt.

Um es konkreter zu machen: Glyphosat wurde im Libanon u.a. berichtet aus den Gebieten der Dörfer Aita al-Shaab, Ras Naqoura und Dhayra. Und in allen drei Gebieten wurden starke Aktivitäten der Hisbollah gemeldet, nicht nur durch die IDF. Unter Aita al-Shaab wurden kilometerlange Tunnel mit Waffenlagern und einer Kommandostelle gefunden.

Meiner persönlichen Auffassung nach wäre es die Aufgabe eines guten Journalisten, nicht nur von den Problemen der Bauern zu berichten, sondern zu recherchieren, was in den Bereichen vorher abgelaufen ist.

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

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[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

A German soldier stopped at the front of the line. He stared at the old man leading the children.
He knew that face.
The man was Janusz Korczak. The soldier had grown up reading his books.
The guard leaned in and offered him a way out. Step aside. Disappear. Live.
Korczak shook his head. He took the hands of the two children beside him. And he kept walking toward the train.
That was the last offer. There had been many.
Here's who he was.
Janusz Korczak wasn't even his real name. He was born Henryk Goldszmit. A Polish Jew. A doctor.
By the 1930s he was famous across Poland. A pediatrician. A writer of beloved children's books. A radio host. Everyone knew his voice.
He could have had an easy life.
Instead he gave it to orphans.
In 1912, he built a home for Jewish orphans in Warsaw. Dom Sierot. The Children's Home.
It was unlike anything in the world.
The children ran their own little parliament. They had their own court. Their own newspaper. They were treated as people, not problems.
Korczak had one rule above all. A child is not someone who will matter one day. A child matters now.
He lived among them for 30 years. He never married. He had no children of his own.
They were his children.
Then the Germans came.
1940. The Nazis sealed 400,000 Jews inside the Warsaw Ghetto. A few city blocks. Walls. Starvation. Disease.
Korczak moved his orphanage inside. He moved in with it.
His friends begged him to run. He was famous. He looked Polish. He could pass. He could vanish onto the other side of the wall.
He refused.
Inside the ghetto, he fought for the children every single day.
He begged for food in the streets. He carried sacks of potatoes on his old back. He wrote in his diary by candlelight, tracking how much weight each child was losing.
He was starving too. Under 800 calories a day. His body was failing.
He kept going.
In July 1942, he staged one last play with the children. A story about a dying boy who is finally set free.
A friend asked why that play. Korczak answered quietly. He wanted to teach the children to meet death without fear.
He already knew what was coming.
On July 22, the trains began.
Day after day, thousands were marched to the Umschlagplatz. Packed into cattle cars. Sent to Treblinka. None came back.
The resistance came to him one more time. Fake documents. A safe house. A way out.
He said no. He would not leave the children to face it alone.
On the morning of August 5, the soldiers came to the door.
Korczak did not panic. He gathered the children. He told them they were going to the countryside. Fresh air. Open fields.
He had them put on their best clothes. Each child carried a small bag. A favorite book. A beloved doll.
Then 192 children and a handful of staff walked out into the street.
Witnesses never forgot it.
The children did not cry. They did not run. They walked in calm rows behind the old doctor, as if they were heading off on a trip.
Korczak walked at the front. A child holding each hand. The smallest ones carried in his arms.
They marched through the ghetto to the train. Three miles. He never let go.
At the platform, the offer came one final time. And one final time, he refused.
He climbed into the cattle car with his children.
He was never seen again.
Korczak, the staff, and all 192 children were almost certainly murdered the moment they reached Treblinka.
Here's what makes this story unbearable.
He could not save them. He knew it. There was no version of that morning where those children lived.
So he saved the only thing left to save.
He made sure not one of them walked to their death alone. Not one of them was afraid. Not one of them was abandoned.
In the worst place human beings ever built, he gave them the one thing the Nazis could not take. A hand to hold.
Today, Treblinka is a field of stones. 17,000 of them. A silent graveyard for nearly a million murdered people.
Only one stone carries a name.
It reads: Janusz Korczak, and the children.
He had no children of his own. He died beside 192 of them.
So that not a single one would face the end alone.
He couldn't save their lives. He made sure they weren't alone. The least we can do is remember them. Share this so 192 children are never forgotten again. Like if his courage reached something in you. And in the comments, say his name — Janusz Korczak

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

Islamist preachers keep saying the same thing. As long as “infidels” refuse to submit, there can be no peace. Violence against them is justified. According to this logic, it’s the non-Muslims’ fault.
The ones doing the terrorizing and killing are simply following Islam.
The only question is how much longer the West will keep pretending not to hear them.