Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The massive German forces that had been brought into the former Warsaw Ghetto to fight the Jewish rebels burned the ghetto street by street. Only by torching the buildings could the fighters be flushed out and forced to seek another place to hide and fight. Terror and inferno raged in the improvised underground bunkers as the Germans made the fighters come out in the only way possible-by hurling grenades into the bunkers or by pumping in tear gas. The ZOB
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
In late May 1942, Samuel Zygelbojm, a Bund leader and one of two Jewish representatives to the Polish government-in-exile in London, obtained a thorough report about the murder being perpetrated against Polish Jewry (the Bund Report). He spared no effort in disseminating such reports and in prompting the Allies to take action in the matter, foremost with respect to rescue. Reports on the murder of European Jewry continued to flow in, and as they accumulated, his attempts to make the
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
In the course of March 1943, 11,343 Jews were deported to Treblinka from Thrace, Macedonia and Pirot, areas that Bulgaria had occupied and administered according to a military agreement with Germany. The deportation was based on a unique accord between the Bulgarian Jewish Commissary and the Germans on February 22, 1943, for the deportation of 20,000 Jews from Bulgaria. The deportation was also supposed to include nearly 9000 Jews from the area of prewar Bulgaria. On March 9, the concentration
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