Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On July 20, 1944, the male Jews of Rhodes were arrested. The women and children joined them, and on July 24, 1,700 were shipped to Athens on two coal barges with no food or water; 120 Jews from the island of Kos were added to the transport. On arrival in Athens, they were imprisoned in the notorious Haidari prison, and from there, were deported to Auschwitz. The transport reached Auschwitz on August 17. 400 Jews were selected for hard labor
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Deportations from Hungary resumed a collaboration between the Germans and members of the Arrow Cross party. Some 70,000 Jews were marched from Budapest toward the Austrian border in a combination deportation and death march. The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who had already managed to issue thousands of Jews in Budapest with diplomatic protection papers, pursued the great convoy of deportees in his car, removed hundreds of passport holders, and led them back to Budapest. He even rescued such persons from
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
In anticipation of the approaching Red Army offensive, the Germans decided to deactivate the Majdanek extermination camp. Nearly 1,000 prisoners were removed from the camp; half of them were sent to Auschwitz. Before abandoning the camp, the deactivation team destroyed documents and set the crematorium ablaze. However, in their haste to withdraw, the Germans didn’t murder all the remaining prisoners, and left the gas chambers and most of the prisoners´ barracks intact. The liberators of Majdanek found some 2,500 survivors.
