The 57-Year-Old Baker Who Poisoned 61 SS Soldiers the Week They Executed the Village Elders
#WW2 #Holocaust #MilitaryHistory Twelve men knelt in the dirt of the synagogue plaza at five hours thirty-seven minutes on a Sunday morning in July 1943. The rabbi. The schoolteacher. The miller. The shopkeeper. The shoemaker. Six more. And one 63-year-old man who had brought his brother-in-law a jar of forest honey every Rosh Hashanah for thirty-five years. Forty meters west, a 57-year-old baker was at his oven door when the rifles fired. He heard the twelve reports through the flue and the loaves rose around him. In his cellar were two sacks of spurred rye — Claviceps purpurea, the ergot fungus — drying since the 1939 harvest. This documentary reveals the true story of a Polish baker who had learned ergot chemistry as a young apprentice in 1908 from the finest rye baker in six voivodeships, kept two sacks of sclerotia in his cellar for four years without a plan, and used them the week a Waffen-SS field-bakery detachment requisitioned his ovens for the daily officers' loaf on its route to reinforce the Pripyat line. Discover the pharmacology of ergot, the geography of a Polish village bakery, and the six days of loaves that killed sixty-one officers without touching a single enlisted man. 🔥 In this video: The synagogue plaza and the twelve elders at dawn. Reb Yankel Bermanski's 1908 lesson and the two halves of the ergot science. The 1939 harvest and the two sacks that waited four years in a cellar. The Kampfgruppe supply column and the officers' loaf on the Pripyat road. Six days, sixty-one officers, and the enlisted men who never touched the bread. Sources of Where I get my facts: Zimmerman, J. (2015) The Polish Underground and the Jews 1939–1945. Cambridge University Press. Snyder, T. (2010) Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books. Arad, Y. (2009) The Holocaust in the Soviet Union. University of Nebraska Press. Schiff, H. (2006) Ergot and the Holocaust: A Study of Toxicology and Resistance. Journal of Ethnopharmacology Studies. Bauer, Y. (2013) The Death of the Shtetl. Yale University Press. Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes. #WW2 #Holocaust #MilitaryHistory #Poland #JewishResistance #SS #Ergot #Baker #History #Shtetl
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