TESTIMONY: Anatoli – “The Jews were brought to the clay quarry. The local police set up the machine gun and started to put the Jews, group by group, at the edge of a pit. Between shooting each group, they drank.” BASIC INFO: During the 1...
Continue ReadingTESTIMONY: Efrosinia – “I was working in the fields when I saw the big trucks bringing the Jews towards the pit. The women were screaming, tearing their hair out.” BASIC INFO: During the 14 days of research in Ukraine, the Yahad – ...
Continue ReadingTESTIMONY: Evgueni -“One day, while I was grazing the cows, I saw an open pit, filled with bodies of women and young girls. They had their hands tied behind their back, swollen faces and a scarf in their mouth. It was the komsomols that the Germans ...
Continue ReadingFor the very first time, Yahad – In Unum sent a team to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Poland to run a week of intensive training seminars for 130 of the Museum’s guides. The goal of the program was to deepen the guides’ knowledge of t...
Continue ReadingTestimony: Henryk – “The Germans set the houses and stores on fire. They accused the Jews of being responsible for the blaze.” The 16th research trip to Poland took place in the Warsaw region, in the north and east of the voivodeship. A ...
Continue ReadingTestimony: Roman – “17 Jews hid in the forest during the war. My parents asked me to bring milk to the refugees.” For its 15th research trip in Poland, a Yahad-In Unum team travelled to Polesia to interview the last witnesses of the Holo...
Continue ReadingTestimony: Boleslaw – “The Jews were rounded up in a yard, surrounded by a wooden fence, near the river. After several days, they were brought to the Jewish cemetery and shot.” For its 14th research trip to Poland, a Yahad-In Unum team t...
Continue ReadingTestimony: Ileana – “We were evacuated to a forest on the Romanian side. The German soldiers, with the help of a Romanian officer, separated the Jews and the Moldovans.” Yahad conducted an investigative trip in the region of Balti in Mol...
Continue ReadingTestimony: Zigmas – “We were forced to watch the shooting of the Jews. The Jews had to undress before the shooting.” From 2 to 17 November 2016, a Yahad in Unum team conducted its 10th research trip to Lithuania, in the regions of Marija...
Continue ReadingTestimony: Mykolas “At the beginning, they marked the Jews’ houses with the inscriptions “Hier Leben die Juden”. Then, they forced them to do all kinds of physical labor until the day they were shot. Local people looted the Jews...
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