A six-year-old boy who died in the Holocaust has been 'brought back to life' on Facebook.
A six-year-old boy who died in the Holocaust has been 'brought back to life' on Facebook. The Facebook page of Polish holocaust victim Henio Zytomirski was created by a group in his home town to
breathe virtual life into a stolen childhood.
Residents of Lublin in Poland created the page as a memorial to Henio, whose black and white profile picture taken in 1939 shows him standing in an old-fashioned buttoned-up T-shirt and shorts (see pic).
At some point in 1942 Henio and his father Szmuel were sent to the nearby Majdanek death camp, and it is believed they died there by early 1943.
Facebook and MySpace users have long been creating memorial pages for friends and family, but these new projects aim to rekindle lives of the more distant dead who might otherwise be forgotten.
Henio's Facebook page has 3,000 "friends" and includes postings from Henio's cousin and other administrators in the voice of the dead boy.
Neta Zytomirski Avidar, a cousin of Henio's who lives in Israel and has helped build the site, wrote, "Henio was an eyewitness and a victim to the Nazis' actions. Because he was murdered, he could never provide his testimony. We try to guess what might have been his testimony."
