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His lawyer, Matthew Blit, elaborated on the abuse suffered by Wiercinski, telling The NY Post, "They would call him a dirty Jew, and when he would say, But I took a bath, they would laugh and say, No, you still smell like Jew.'"
For his ex-supervisors, no topic was off limits, as night-shift manager Artur Zbozien would often pass gas in front of Wiercinski and say it was Zyklon B, the poisonous cyanide used in Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust to kill hundreds of thousands of Jews. Wiercinski told The Post, "How can I explain to you he passed wind, loudly. Everybody laughed, and then he said, See, this is your Zyklon B, you stupid Jew."
The jury went silent as Blit explained the significance of Zyklon B, as most were too young to be familiar with its use. Blit knew all too much about it, however, as only two of his father's six siblings survived in what is now Ukraine.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/adam-wiercinski-jewish-delivery-man-_n_4174125.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I can't that's going to help their business in Manhattan, either.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)No idea what any of this means.
kcr
(15,317 posts)that it's punitive damages, so that means the plaintiff isn't actually being awarded the money (they're mistaken). They think that somehow means he didn't actually win because the jury didn't think Mangia is actually liable, so all the stories saying so are false. Delusional.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)One way or another, they are punishing them. They did something.
Maraya1969
(22,483 posts)So who cares? As long as this poor man is compensated by these mean people.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Except for the fact that some have refused to evolve. And religion is often involved in keeping them frozen in the amber.
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)Look how the Roma have been treated lately. No excuse. And don't get me started on how peopke use rhe term rwmedneck and make fun of how people talk.
ashling
(25,771 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)at the Court's judgement, a tad
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Maybe I'm getting old, but it seems some real basic history isn't being taught. WWII was, in many ways, the defining event of the 20th century.