Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Germans occupied Vilna on June 24. Within a few days, the Germans and the Lithuanians issued orders forcing Jews to wear the Jewish Badge, forbidding them to walk on sidewalks and enter certain locations, stipulating a nighttime curfew, and limiting their food purchases. On July 4, the Jews were ordered to establish a Judenrat. Concurrently, the Germans, assisted by Lithuanian volunteers, began to abduct Jews�some 5,000 in July�from the streets and their homes, to take them to Ponary, and
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Following the invasion of the USSR in June 1941, Germany and Romania occupied Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. Romanian leaders Marshal Ion Antonescu and Deputy Prime Minister Mihai Antonescu and other government members gave the Romanian army and gendarmerie secret orders to murder all the Jews in Bukovina and Bessarabia under the code name “Cleansing of the Ground” (Curatirea Terenului). On the eve of the war, a special killing unit was created from the Security Services, commanded by the deputy Prime
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The order to establish the ghetto in Minsk�34 streets and alleys plus the Jewish cemetery�was given on July 20, 1941. Jews were brought to the ghetto from Slutzk, Dzerzhinsk, Cherven, and other localities in the vicinity of Minsk. Jewish men and women who had married non-Jews were also taken to the ghetto, as were their children. In all, the ghetto population climbed to 100,000.
