Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Early in the morning of June 10, 1942, all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice were taken out of their homes, and all the men in the village – 192 in all – were killed, as were 71 women. The remaining women, numbering 198, were imprisoned in the Ravensbruck concentration camp, and of these, 143 returned to the village after the war. Of the 98 children who had been abducted and “put into educational institutions,” no more than
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Germans cut off the supply routes to the British forces in Tobruk on June 17. On June 20, General Erwin Rommel´s forces launched an offensive against the British there. The town fell to the Germans on June 21, as Rommel led his troops past its fortifications. The Germans took 33,000 Allied prisoners of war and mammoth quantities of foodstuffs. Rommel immediately advanced eastward, in a move applauded by Hitler. Two days later, Rommel´s forces reached Sidi Barrani, Egypt. In
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The first transport from Drancy, with 1,000 Jews aboard, set out for Auschwitz-Birkenau on June 22. Drancy, a collection and detention camp for French Jews in the large northeastern suburb of Paris of this name, became a junction from which Jews were deported from France to labor and extermination camps. Guarded by members of the French Gendarmerie armed with machine guns, the camp held as many as 4,500 Jews at a time. The first deportation from Drancy was the third
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