Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The first Aktion in the Bialystok Ghetto took place on February 5-12. About 10,000 ghetto inhabitants were transported to Treblinka; another 2,000 were shot by Germans in the course of the operation. “Front A,” the first underground cell established in the ghetto, attempted to resist the Aktion with its scanty means. Many of its members were killed; others, including the commander, Edek Boraks, were sent to Treblinka.
Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Aktion against the Jews of Greece began in the first week of February. On February 6, the order that set the deportations in motion was sent: Jews were to mark their businesses and homes prominently and move into a ghetto. Implementation was assigned to the SD, and the financial expenses were charged to the Jews. Within several days, the standard set of restrictions and decrees went into effect: the yellow badge, home quarantine, the injunction against the use of
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
A special camp for Gypsies was established in Birkenau on February 26. Organized in the form of a family camp, it received mostly Gypsies from other concentration camps and smaller numbers of Gypsies from elsewhere in the Reich. Among them were veterans of the Wehrmacht; some arrived in Auschwitz in uniform and with citations in hand. Because of the harsh conditions, the mortality rate in the Gypsies´ camp was the highest in any of the Birkenau camps. Some 20,000 Gypsies
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