Ringelblum reported on more massacres to the east, and that a German soldier, Anton Schmid, who had saved hundreds of Jews in Lithuania, had been executed by his fellow Germans upon discovery. Ringelblum had known of Schmid’s heroism for several months and asked us to say Kaddish for the man. It felt surreal, saying Kaddish for a German soldier, but life underwater being what it was, we did as he asked.
