Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died on April 12. Aged, exhausted, and ill, Roosevelt was resting at Warm Springs, Georgia, when he suddenly complained of a terrible headache. Two hours later, he was pronounced dead of a stroke. Churchill responded to the news by bemoaning “a loss of the British nation and of the cause of freedom in every land.” In Moscow, the streets filled with sobbing men and women. Goebbels, in contrast, called Hitler
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The last 74,000 inhabitants of the Lodz Ghetto had already been sent to Auschwitz. The only remaining Jews in the former ghetto were several hundred whom the Germans inducted to remove, and crate for shipment to Germany, the belongings of those sent to Auschwitz. The Germans intended to murder these Jews before their retreat from Lodz, but the prisoners, watching the Germans prepare this action, escaped and went into hiding. The Red Army entered Lodz on January 19. Of the
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The German High Command surrendered to the Allies unconditionally. Final German attempts to conclude a surrender accord with the Western powers failed. General Alfred Jodl, representing Germany, signed the letter of surrender in the war room of the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. Fighting was to stop at 11:01 a.m. on May 9. Two days later, the general surrender was formally ratified in Berlin, this time with the Soviets, as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed an identical document for General
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