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.
Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
After the Polish uprising in Warsaw broke out on August 1, 1944, Hitler issued orders to reduce the city to rubble and establish a fortress in its place. Once the uprising was quelled, some of the city´s Polish inhabitants were deported. In October-December 1944, the Germans methodically destroyed many of Warsaw´s antiquities and collections of cultural artifacts. The Soviet and Polish armies began an offensive in early January 1945, and liberated tcity on January 17. In the course of the
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The decision to liquidate the Lodz ghetto was taken in the spring of 1944. To accomplish this, the Germans reactivated the Chelmno extermination camp, which had previously been closed. Deportations to Chelmno, disguised as transports to labor camps in Germany, began on June 23. A transport moratorium occurred between July 15 and August 6, and the deportations were re-routed to Auschwitz on August 7. Quarter by quarter, the ghetto was quarantined and combed. Each area was declared off-limits; anyone found
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