Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Germans established two ghettos for the Jews of Riga. On the night of November 29, Germans separated working Jewish men from the rest of the ghetto inhabitants and removed them to a fenced area at the northeastern corner of the city that had been cleared of its residents three days before. On the night of November 30, German and Latvian guards ringed the western part of the “large ghetto.” The inhabitants were rounded up in groups of 1,000, and
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Germans were already at the gates of the Soviet capital. The Soviet Union reached its lowest point in the war, its institutions of state about to fall to the German army. Georgi Zhukov, Red Army chief of staff, was summoned to orchestrate the city’s defense. He built the defense line and waited for his colleague, “General Winter.” The German generals pleaded with Hitler to establish a defense line for the winter, but he refused, insisting they continue to attack.
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Japanese forces attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, and other American and British sites in the Pacific Ocean. The main Japanese force chose to assault Pearl Harbor from the air, in order to take out the principal American fleet in the Pacific. Most of the warships were unscathed, because they were not in the harbor at that time. The U.S. Navy, although not destroyed totally, incurred heavy losses: 4 warships, 92 naval aircraft, and 96 army
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