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It wasnt a history book. It wasnt a museum. It was right there.

这发生在并不遥远的过去。这不是历史书，不是博物馆，这一切就在眼前。

There was a small hole in the kitchen floor that led to a secret crawl space. That image is burned into my memory. The space was maybe five feet long by five feet wide.

厨房地板上的一个小洞，通向一个秘密的藏身之处。这幅景象深深地刻在了我的脑海了，那个藏身之地大概只有1.5米乘1.5米这么大。

The owner of the house said，"They used to fit six people inside there. When the Nazis would come."

房子的主人说：“纳粹出现时，他们会在这里藏六个人。”

His name was Tadeusz Skoczylas， and the house we were in had belonged to his family during World War II. It was a small brick house in the town of Ciepielów， Poland.

说这话的人名叫塔德斯·斯科兹拉斯，那栋位于波兰小镇希佩洛的砖制房子，二战期间是他们家的财产。

I had been in Poland for a few days already， and the horror of the history I had experienced was overwhelming. But this was something different. This was so personal.

我来到波兰已经数日，令人恐惧的历史让我震惊。可这里有些不同，这里夹杂了个人情绪。

Im looking at this tiny space. And Im imagining six people down there， hiding from death. Six real people. Crawling through that little hole right in front of me. Not that long ago. It wasnt a history book. It wasnt a museum. It was right there.

看着这个狭小的空间，我能想象六个人藏在那里，躲避死亡的样子。六个真实的人，从我眼前小小的洞口爬进去。这发生在并不遥远的过去。这不是历史书，不是博物馆，这一切就在眼前。

Tadeusz explained that one day in 1942， Nazi soldiers visited the house on a tip. Someone in the village had told them that the family had been harboring Jewish people. There were supposed to be 10 Skoczylas living in the house. On this particular day， the youngest boy in the family was not home when the soldiers came by. The Nazis grew suspicious and began tearing the house apart. They found the hole and the crawl space， but the Jewish people the family had been hiding were not there. They had already moved on.

塔德斯说，1942年的一天，收到线报的纳粹士兵来到了这里。村子里有人告密，说他们家藏匿了犹太人。斯科兹拉斯一家有10个人，但是纳粹士兵出现的那一天，最小的男孩并不在家。纳粹起了怀疑，开始四处搜查。他们发现了洞口和藏身所。不过本该藏在那里的犹太人并不在那里，他们已经转移了。

Without saying a word， the Nazis went next door to a neighboring family and took their young son. The punishment for hiding Jews was death for the entire family， and they had a quota to fill. The soldiers took all 10 people out back and executed them right in front of those barns and shacks that are still standing there today.

納粹士兵一句话没说，他们直接去了邻居家，抓了他们最小的儿子。藏匿犹太人的处罚是全家处死，纳粹还有杀人配额。纳粹把十个人带出来，在至今仍然存在的小木屋前杀死了他们。endprint

When the little Skoczylas boy returned home， he found his entire family dead.

当最小的斯科兹拉斯回到家时，他发现所有家人都死了。

That little boy was Tadeuszs grandfather. The house stayed in the Skoczylas family， and his grandfather lived in it. Now Tadeusz and his mother live in it.

那个小男孩，就是塔德斯的祖父。斯科兹拉斯一家留下了那栋房子，如今，塔德斯和他的母亲仍然住在那里。……