Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
As Jews were being deported from Vilna to Ponary, several inhabitants of the ghetto realized that the actions being perpetrated against them belonged to a genocide scheme. Several leading members of the Ha-Shomer ha-Tza’ir youth movement in Vilna slipped out of the ghetto, found refuge in a monastery a short distance from town, and attempted to understand the meaning of the events and the conclusions to adduce from them. Abba Kovner said, “One mustn’t believe that those who were taken
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On January 6, 1942, Soviet Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov sent a message to all countries with which the USSR had diplomatic relations, with information on mass graves that the Soviet army had discovered after liberating a series of towns and localities on the Moscow front in the winter offensive. The letters, entitled “Concerning the Nazis´ terrible crimes against civilians, prisoners of war, and others,” quoted witnesses who had come from the occupied territories and described the murder of 52,000 people
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Preparations for the annihilation of Dutch Jewry were made in late 1941 when the German authorities informed the Jewish leadership that “unemployed Jews” would be sent to labor camps. The first deportation in the Netherlands took place on January 14, 1942, as part of a plan to make the country Judenrein. It began in the town of Zandam: Jews with Dutch citizenship were ordered to move to Amsterdam, and alien Jews were transported to the Westerbork camp.
