The revolutionaries of May

[rich]

On 7/27/09, Rob Jackson <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:

>
> "In Poland, the Ice Saints are St. Pancras, St. Servatus and St.
> Boniface; St. Boniface's feast day falling on May 14. The trio are
> known collectively as the 'cold gardeners', the three days culminating
> in 'Zimna Zośka' (Cold Sophia's), the feast day of St. Sophia which
> falls on May 15."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Saints
>
> So my guess is that the most likely direct referent for the phrase is
> the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, particularly considering the
> recollection of the encounter Slothrop has with the "tiny frost
> flower" daughter of a concentration camp commandant and her gruesome
> toys recounted just after this:
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I would find it odd to connect (Polish) Catholic saints with the
Warsaw Ghetto uprising  (Jewish)-- the Polish Warsaw uprising in 1944
which was also put down by the SS. People tend to conflate the Jewish
uprising with the Polish one the following year

Rich