Talk:Chaim Widawski

Recent additions
The recent additions, which appear fine from a strict editing point of view are mostly unverified. We need to find sources or remove the content. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 04:09, 25 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Can you be more specific? I'm assuming the unverified portions are that the Nazis forbid the ownership of radios or that the Lodz ghetto was liquidated in 1944. Most of that is already implicit in the text/sources (and well sources elsewhere). If you would like to help in tracking down citations for the info that would actually be very much appreciated. The main thrust of the edits is that before it said that he hid some radios etc. etc. but it failed to make it clear just how important such an action was. For most contemporary readers, unfamiliar with the history, the fact that Widawski had a radio will just sound banal - because they wouldn't know that even something as simple as owning a radio in the ghetto was a death-defying act of courage. I hope that my edits helped to clarify that. Also, if this article can be expanded a bit, this is an article on an individual who very much could use more coverage - maybe we can get it substantial enough for DYK.  Volunteer Marek   04:48, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * It's all great, but unsupported by an inline citation. For example this edit.-- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 13:02, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * That's straight from the sources inlined after the next sentence. I put one in after that sentence too. Note originally this was just one sentence but I broke it up into two for readability.  Volunteer Marek   15:50, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay thanks for that. I added CN tags for the other additions that lacked inline citations.-- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 18:21, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, I tried finding more information on the guy, including in Polish sources. But it's pretty much all the same thing - it all talks about his role in the ghetto and his death. I wanted to expand this article to include his whole biography, childhood etc., since I sort of think that folks like him were more than just some particular heroic deed however great that was, (same thing true for people like Jurek Wilner, Michał Klepfisz and others) but... they all died in the Holocaust, their families died in the Holocaust, their neighbors died in the Holocaust, the neighbors of their neighbors died in the Holocaust, the records of their very existence were destroyed and it's the kind of thing that nobody likes to think about too much, there is really nothing else to preserve their memory, except that one particular deed so I guess that is what they will be known for. Which isn't bad, just not really "full". In Wikipedia terms it just means there is not enough information out there for anything but a stub size article. But you know every word of that stub is way more important than all of the words in some other Wikipedia articles. At least I hope so.  Volunteer Marek  07:04, 28 January 2011 (UTC)