Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The first persons deported to the Waffen-SS concentration and extermination camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland, were prisoners of war. The true functions of the camp, however, were to remove and exterminate enemies of the Third Reich, to exterminate Jews, and to assist in the deportation and resettlement of the inhabitants of the Zamosc region. The camp was ringed with a high-tension electrified double barbed-wire fence punctuated by 18 watchtowers. Adjoining the camp and its gas chambers were workshops,
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Bogdanovka was an extermination camp that the Romanian occupation authorities established in the village of that name on the Bug River, in the Golta district of Transnistria. In the middle of December 1941, when several cases of typhus were discovered in the camp, a joint decision was made by Fleisher the German advisor to the Romanian administration of the district and Romanian District Commissioner: Col. Modest Isopesco , to murder all the inmates. Participating in this operation were Romanian soldiers
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The last Aktion in a series of operations in the Vilna Ghetto took place on December 22, 1941. The Germans’ method was to murder inmates who did not hold a “Schein,” a German-issued labor permit. For this reason, the Jews in this city termed the murder operations “Schein-aktionen.” By the end of 1941, the Germans had murdered 33,500 of the 57,000 Jews in Vilna, mostly at the massacre site at Ponary. Several Jews managed to survive Ponary and return to
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