Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) was established in the Warsaw Ghetto while 300,000 Jews were being removed in mass deportations. In the lengthy discussions that preceded the founding of the ZOB, some participants argued that the Germans would not annihilate the Jews of Warsaw because of the city´s central location and because they did not wish to forfeit the Jews´ labor capacity. An underground organization, they said, might endanger the entire ghetto and prompt the Germans to liquidate it. The
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The World Jewish Congress representative in Geneva, Gerhard Riegner, obtained information from a German manufacturer, Eduard Schulte-who had connections in Hitler´s general headquarters-indicating that Hitler had decided to systematically annihilate all of European Jewry, and that gas was being used to attain this goal. After Riegner gathered further information about his source, he approached the American Consulate in Geneva with the report. He handed the deputy-consul a cable and asked him to forward it to Stephen Wise, an American Jewish
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The “great Aktion” in the Lvov Ghetto began on August 8, 1942. By the time it ended on August 23, 50,000 Jews had been sent to the Belzec extermination camp and murdered.
