Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Amidst much terror and intimidation, the first transport from Lodz set out for the gas vans of the Chelmno extermination camp. Earlier, the German authorities forced the chairman of the Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski, to prepare lists of candidates for deportation and to organize the assembly points at the edge of the ghetto. Rumkowski was not aware of the purpose of the deportation at that time. A committee was appointed and ordered to select victims among those in the “asocial” category-people
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On January 20, a meeting took place in a villa in Wannsee, on the outskirts of Berlin, to discuss the measures and inter-ministerial coordination needed to implement the “Final Solution” of the Jewish problem. The meeting was held at the initiative of Reinhard Heydrich, who, as Himmler´s deputy and the head of the RSHA, had been authorized by Hermann Goering to elaborate a program that would solve the Jewish problem totally. Heydrich summoned the directors of the main government agencies
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On January 21, 1942, representatives of Zionist youth movements convened in the Vilna Ghetto, resolved to mount a resistance, and founded the United Partisan Organization-the Fareynegte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO) in Yiddish. The FPO was an outgrowth of the discussion held on the night of December 31, 1941, in which the poster concerning “Lambs to the slaughter” was read out and the Jewish youth movement leaders were urged to organize for struggle against the Germans, in the awareness that the Germans
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