Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Jewish Fighting Organization (the ZOB), believing that the Cracow Ghetto was too small to make armed struggle against the Germans possible, decided to carry the fight to the “Aryan” side of the city. The best-known operation outside the ghetto took place on December 23, 1942, when 11 Germans were killed and 13 wounded in an attack on a downtown cafe, called Cyganeria, that German officers used as a meeting place.
Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On January 18, 1943, the Germans again began to deport Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. Believing that the final liquidation of the ghetto was at hand, the ZOB, the Jewish Fighting Organization, sent two companies into action. One unit, armed with handguns, planted itself in a convoy of Jews who had been captured and were being led to the umschlagplatz (the collection point for deportation). When the signal was given, they engaged the group´s German escorts in hand-to-hand combat. Several
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The contest for Stalingrad was over. The airlift that Hitler had ordered to assist his besieged forces failed. Some 147,200 German soldiers were killed in the futile effort to occupy the city. Another 91,000 surrendered, including 24 generals. Berlin acknowledged its defeat in this battle and announced that “the victims of this army, a corps [in pursuit of] of a historic European goal, were not in vain.” Germany proclaimed three days of national mourning; Soviet forces advanced on all fronts.
