Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Jews of Kishinev were annihilated in several phases. When Romanian and German units entered the town, many Jews were slaughtered in the streets and in their homes. Their exact number is not known, but the researcher Matatias Carp estimates it at some 10,000. After the ghetto was established, 2,000 Jews were systematically murdered by a unit comprised of men from Einsatzkommandos 11a from Einsatzgruppen D. This unit selected for murder members of the liberal professions (doctors, lawyers, engineers) and
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Growing criticism of the “euthanasia” operation�such as a sermon given by Clemens Galen, the Catholic Bishop of Muenster on August 3, 1941�prompted Hitler to terminate the operation officially. Practically, however, it continued under improved camouflage until the end of the war. By September 1, 1941, when the operation was officially terminated, 70,273 people had been “purged,” according to T4 figures; by the end of 1941, T4 reported that 93,521 beds had been made available for other purposes.
Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The German army advanced so rapidly toward Leningrad, the second-most important city in Russia, that by August 30, 1941, the last of the railroad tracks that led to the town had been cut. Several days later, German tank units completed their stranglehold on the town. German troops under Field Marshal Ritter von Leeb from the southwest, and Finnish Marshal Mannerheim’s army from the northwest, rushed to the city outskirts quickly and began to shell the city fiercely. However, the Nazis’
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