The quiet testimony of Ron Jones, the former goalkeeper of the Wales team in the "Auschwitz football league

 

The quiet testimony of Ron Jones, the former goalkeeper of the Wales team in the "Auschwitz football league"

There were prisoners from all over the world at Auschwitz, not just Jews. The camp was originally built to accommodate Polish POWs, and later many Russian POWs arrived as well.

Picture top left, the location of the football pitch, within sight of the two crematoria ("Krema II and III") where, according to the legend, thousands of Jews were taken to their deaths every day. From the football pitch you could also see the station platform ("death train tracks") where the deportees got off the trains and where, according to the legend, the selection for the gas chamber was made.  On the right is Ron Jones, the former goalkeeper of the Wales team in the Auschwitz football league. Above left, the English prisoner of war football team posing for the group photo. On the right, the Wales team. In the centre of the picture, in the back row, Ron Jones, who told the Daily Mail newspaper about his memories in 2013.


There were sports activities in the Birkenau concentration camp (or "Auschwitz II") called by Allied propaganda "extermination camp".

On a sports field there were football matches and there could be spectators. Players and spectators had therefore seen what was going on around the crematorium. It is, therefore, unlikely that, in the small courtyard of this crematorium, the Germans were able, almost every day, to secretly gather thousands of unfortunate people waiting to be gassed and then incinerated.

In an article published in the Daily Mail on 4 October 2013, the former goalkeeper of the Wales team for the Auschwitz football championship, Ron Jones, 96, recounts his memories: "We didn't work on Sundays, so we played football."

The Red Cross had heard about these football matches and brought the teams four sets of jerseys - English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh. "Under these conditions, it was a real pleasure to play football on a Sunday," he said. "But we could only play in summer, of course, because in winter there was a lot of snow. "There was the humiliation of being there and the lack of food, but on the whole life was not so bad. 

Ron Jones adds: 

"The Germans, contrary to what a lot of people think, were pretty good for us on the whole."


Source : Extraordinary tale of British soldier who played for Sunday league team at Auschwitz | Daily Mail Online

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