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MURDERERS

10 August 1942

10 AUGUST 1942 | An SS doctor selected 75 sick prisoners at the #Auschwitz infirmary. They were all killed with phenol heart injections on that day.

81 YEARS AGO, THE GERMANS

81 YEARS AGO, THE GERMANS carried out one of the largest executions in the history of World War II.
On November 3, 1943 in Majdanek and Trawnik, SS and police units murdered approx. 30 thousand Jews. The day after tomorrow, a similar action was carried out in the camp in Poniatowa, where about was murdered. 13k. of prisoners. Erntefest action (Germany). Harvest festival) is considered to be the largest one-off execution in the history of the last world conflict, during which ok. 43 thousand people in less than 48 hours. The action was precisely planned, did not have a pacific character, was not a direct response to the rebellion, and was dedicated solely to the purpose of getting rid of the remaining lives of the Jews in Lublin. The Erntefest Action itself - however possessing certain "original" features - is of course a part of the general policy of German terror. His examples can be multiplied: starting from the first executions in 1939, through the AB action, bloody repressions and pacifications of Polish villages, until the later one year in relation to the Erntefest Action the Warsaw Wola massacre, where Germans murdered 15 thousand more. up to 65k The Polish. Regardless of all these shocking numbers, we want to honor the Memory of all the Victims of World War II.

A Biologist Reconstructs the Grotesque Efficiency of the Nazis’ Killing Machine

A BIOLOGIST RECONSTRUCTS THE GROTESQUE EFFICIENCY OF THE NAZIS’ KILLING MACHINE. Lewi Stone used his statistical prowess to reveal the furious intensity of the Holocaust’s industrial-scale genocide during three months of 1942.

A DEATH PIT

A DEATH PIT, Poland circa 1942: Holocaust: Mass execution in the concentration camp “Belzec”, Poland

A German girl is overcome

A GERMAN GIRL IS OVERCOME as she walks past the exhumed bodies of some of the 800 slave workers murdered by the SS guards near Namering, Germany, and laid here so that townspeople may view the work of their Nazi leaders. Photo Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, item 111-SC-264895. Cpl. Edward Belfer, photographer, May 17, 1945.

A Jewish prisoner in a special chamber

"A JEWISH PRISONER IN A SPECIAL CHAMBER responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments. For the benefit of the Luftwaffe, conditions simulating those found at 15,000 meters [49,000 ft] in altitude were created in an effort to determine if German pilots might survive at that height."

AFTER THE BATTLE OF CRETE WAS OVER

AFTER THE BATTLE OF CRETE WAS OVER, a real bloodbath started. The nazis, blinded by their revenge, murdered indiscriminately citizens of the island, including pregnant women and young children, as well as old men and women.

An SS officer aiming his rifle

AN SS OFFICER AIMING HIS RIFLE at a Jewish family fleeing in the fields of Ivanograd, Ukraine; naked Jewish men and boys being forced to lie face down in a pit (the “sardine method”) as they are being shot in Ponary, Lithuania; Jewish women and children, at the moment of death, falling into the sand dunes of Liepāja, Latvia; an execution squad firing in Tiraspol, Moldova; naked Jewish women and girls being finished off by Ukrainian militia in Mizoch; one photograph from Ukraine with the caption “last living seconds of Jews in Dubno,” showing men being shot execution-style against a brick wall; another, also from Ukraine, captioned “the last Jew in Vinnytsia,” showing a man kneeling before a pit with a pistol to the back of his head; Jews in Kovno (Kaunas) being bludgeoned to death by Lithuanian pogromists; and a few more without captions, apparently taken in the Baltic states or Belarus and depicting the Holocaust by bullets.

AUGUST HIRT, DEADLY COLLECTOR OF THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST

AUGUST HIRT, DEADLY COLLECTOR OF THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST, he performed experiments with mustard gas on inmates at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and played a lead role in the murders of 86 people at Natzweiler-Struthof for the Jewish skull collection. The skeletons of his victims were meant to become specimens at the Institute of anatomy in Strasbourg, but completion of the project was stopped by the progress of the war. He was an SS-Haupsturmfuhrer (captain) and in 1944, an SS-Sturmbannführer (major). SUICIDE JUNE 2, 1945.

AWAITING THEIR MURDER, BY THE EINSATZGRUPPEN

AWAITING THEIR MURDER, BY THE EINSATZGRUPPEN, Volhynia – an area in Northwest Ukraine. With Nazi Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the German army advanced so rapidly that most of Volhynia’s Jews were trapped, and only an estimated 5% were able to flee eastwards. As soon as the area was occupied, pogroms perpetrated by the local population as well as mass shooting of Jews by the German Einsatzgruppen began. Ghettos were established where Jews lived in terrible conditions and under a regime of terror and forced labor. In summer 1942 a new wave of killings was launched.

Babi Yar

BABI YAR, Ukraine, October 1941, German Police Searching through the Clothing of Murdered Jews
Yad Vashem Photo Archives, 3056/2

Babyn Yar

BABYN YAR and the Art of Felix Lembersky.

BIKERNEKI FOREST NEAR RIGA, LATVIA

BIKERNEKI FOREST NEAR RIGA, LATVIA, Jews were murdered by the thousands in this forest! Biķernieki forest is the biggest mass murder site during the Holocaust in Latvia, with two memorial territories spanning over 80,000 square meters (860,000 sq ft), with 55 marked burial sites with around 20,000 victims still buried in total. About 46,500 people were reported to have been killed there, including Latvian and Western European Jews, and Soviet prisoners of war.

BODIES LIE PILED

BODIES LIE PILED against the walls of a crematory room in a German concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. The bodies were found by U.S. Seventh Army troops who took the camp on May 14, 1945.

BRECKINRIDGE LONG

BRECKINRIDGE LONG, in my opinion he was the person in the US government responsible for thousands of Jews being murdered, Samuel Breckinridge Long was an Assistant Secretary in the US State Department during World War II, from 1940–1944. He was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of European Jews. Many of the policies implemented by the State Department’s Visa Division, which Long supervised, slowed immigration to the United States for the hundreds of thousands of refugees attempting to escape persecution and murder by Nazi Germany. Between 1939 and 1942, Breckinridge Long implemented new State Department policies which prioritized US national security over humanitarian concerns. In November 1943, Long testified to a Congressional committee about the State Department’s work on behalf of refugees. Details of his testimony were quickly proven false, and in January 1944, he was removed from his position overseeing the Visa Division. Breckinridge Long was often accused, both during his time at the State Department and in the years since the Holocaust, of being personally antisemitic and unsympathetic to European refugees, especially Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.

Bruno Furch

BRUNO FURCH: Christmas Eve 1944 (Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, Vienna)

CHARLES COUGHLIN

CHARLES COUGHLIN (1891–1979) was born on October 25, 1891, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Coughlin graduated from the University of Toronto in 1911. He then attended St. Basil's Seminary in Toronto. He was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1916. Father Charles Coughlin, leader of the antisemitic Christian Front, delivers a radio broadcast. United States, February 4, 1940. Credits: Wide World Photo. He was a controversial Roman Catholic. priest based near Detroit, at Royal Oak, Michigan, National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as up to thirty million listeners tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s. He was forced off the air in 1939. After hinting at attacks on Jewish bankers, Coughlin began to use his radio program to issue anti-Semitic commentary, and in the late 1930s to support some of the policies of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Chelmno

CHELMNO death camp execution victims

CORPSES FOUND

CORPSES FOUND by the Soviet authorities at the Klooga concentration camp after the Nazi German forces' departure (late 1944)

DEATH PIT

DEATH PIT, a horrific photograph of an execution in eastern Europe during the second world war can be seen in Holocaust archives and museums around the world.

DERECZYN, BELORUSSIAN S.S.R., EINSATZGRUPPEN MASSACRE OF THE JEWS

DERECZYN, BELORUSSIAN S.S.R., EINSATZGRUPPEN MASSACRE OF THE JEWS, mobile killing units of the German Army during WWII. On the eve of World War II, there were ca. 4,000 Jews living in Dereczyn. In September 1939, the town was seized by the Red Army and subsequently annexed to the Soviet Union. The Germans entered the town on 25 July 1941. The Jewish population from local towns and villages was deported to Dereczyn. All “useless” Jews were locked up in the ghetto set up in the town, while craftsmen initially lived outside the Jewish quarter. When rumors of the murder of Jews in the neighboring town of Słonim reached Dereczyn, the local Jews started to consider escaping to the nearby forests. However, the plan met with objections from “useful” Jews, who believed that their work for the Germans would save the lives of all Jewish people, while an attempted escape would only bring bloody repressions. Young Jews organized an underground movement in the ghetto with the aim of organizing an escape and armed resistance, if necessary. A group of underground activists smuggled weapons from a German warehouse – twenty pistols and machine guns with ammunition – which they hid outside the town. In the spring of 1942, the partisan movement became more active. Its members organized attacks on the German military police post in Kolinka and the labour camp in Puzewicze. The Jews held in the Dereczyn Ghetto were hoping that the partisans would soon reach their town. In July 1942, the first Jews escaped from the ghetto and went into hiding in the forest. On 24 July 1942, the Germans carried out an Aktion in the ghetto. Ca. 300 Jews escaped from the quarter and went to previously prepared hideouts in the forest. Several escapees became well-known partisans, for example Eliasz Lipszowicz. Ca. 100 Jews from Dereczyn lived to see the end of the war (the town was liberated in mid-July 1944).

Disabled people were Holocaust victims, too

DISABLED PEOPLE WERE HOLOCAUST VICTIMS, too: they were excluded from German society and murdered by Nazi programs. Five handicapped Jewish prisoners, photographed for propaganda purposes, who arrived in Buchenwald after Kristallnacht. Holocaust Memorial Museum/Photograph #13132.

EICHMANN

EICHMANN, 11 May 1960 | Adolf EICHMANN, whose task was to facilitate & manage the logistics involved in the mass deportations of Jews to ghettos & extermination camps in German-occupied Europe, was captured in Argentina. After seizing Eichmann close to his Garibaldi Street home in a suburb of Buenos Aires, his captors rushed him to a place of concealment. Under interrogation, Eichmann admitted his true identity and signed a document giving his consent to stand trial in Israel.

EINSATZGRUPPEN 1

EINSATZGRUPPEN 1, executions of Jews by SS-led mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivanhorod, now Ukraine. Einsatzgruppen were Schutzstaffel paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II in German-occupied Europe.

EXECUTIONS CARRIED OUT BY THE EINSATZKOMMANDO 3, World War 2

EXECUTIONS CARRIED OUT BY THE EINSATZKOMMANDO 3, World War 2, German gestapo officers executing Russian peasants, September 1943, the photo was taken by a German soldier captured by the red army. Einsatzgruppen were Schutzstaffel paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II in German-occupied Europe.