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Call to Arms
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Vilna ghetto partisan leader Abba Kovner publicly predicted the Final Solution weeks before the Wannsee conference finalized the Nazis’ plans to systematically murder millions of Jews.

Contributor:

Abba Kovner

Places:

Vilna, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Rebellion, Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Martyrdom, Death, Apocalypse, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Apocalyptic
Abba Kovner
The Czech Transport: A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
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A day passed, and then a second and a third. Wednesday came, the ultimate deadline for the transport’s arrival. There were two obvious reason for the delay. First, it appeared that in addition to…

Contributor:

Zalmen Gradowski

Places:

Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)

Date:

1944

Subjects:

Holocaust, Antisemitism, Jewish quarters, Martyrdom, Death, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage