Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
In the Spring of 1941 four Einsatzgruppen were organised who together numbered some 3000 people. They were mobile units of the SD and the Security Police who were disposed after the combat forces to take control of the areas that the army had occupied. Each unit advanced in a predetermined direction toward a pre-assigned sector. The Einstazgruppen engaged in “special tasks”, ie: mass murder on an unprecedented scale.Their orders were spelled out in a letter given to them on July
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On June 24, 1941, two days after the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Germans occupied Vilna. In July, the Germans began taking Jewish victims by foot, in motor vehicles, and by train to Ponary, where they were led in groups of hundreds and thousands to enormous pits. The victims were marched through a circular entrance at the construction site of a fuel depot. They could not see where they were being taken, because their upper garments were pulled over
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On the evening of June 28, Romanian and German soldiers, members of the Romanian Special Intelligence Service, police, and masses of residents participated in an assault on the Jews of this town. Thousands were murdered in their homes and in the streets; additional thousands were arrested by patrols of Romanian and German soldiers and taken to police headquarters. In their homes, Christians posted crosses, icons, and inscriptions such as “Here live Christians, not Jewboys.” The next day, “Black Sunday,” Romanian
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