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The 30th Infantry Division participated in major WWII campaigns and is recognized for liberating the Weferlingen subcamp of Buchenwald in 1945.
The 2nd Infantry Division participated in major WWII campaigns and is recognized for liberating Leipzig-Schönefeld and Spergau/Zöschen in 1945.
Explore Gideon Frieder’s biography and learn about his experiences as a child during the Holocaust in Slovakia.
Children pose for a photograph outside of the main synagogue in Eyshishok, 1911. Those pictured include siblings from the Schneider, Sonenson, Wilenski, Kabacznik, and Resnik families. Also present is Shlomo Farber from the nearby town of Olkieniki.
Students and teachers mark the official establishment of the Hebrew school in Eyshishok. In September 1941, German Einsatzkommando 3 and Lithuanian auxiliary forces carried out a massacre of Jews in Eyshishok, killing most of the town’s residents.
Artist Esther Lurie documented life in the Kovno ghetto for its secret archives. Learn about her watercolors and sketches, the majority of which have never been found.
Nazi efforts to control forms of communication through censorship and propaganda included control of publications, art, theater, music, movies, and radio.
Before the Holocaust, the Jewish community of Eyshishok had a vibrant cultural and religious life. Eyshishok was considered a shtetl. Shtetl is a Yiddish word that refers to a small market town in eastern Europe with a majority Jewish population. Eyshishok was part of Poland when World War II began. However, the area changed hands multiple times during the war. When German forces occupied the town in June 1941, it was part of Lithuania.In September 1941, German Einsatzkommando 3 and Lithuanian auxiliary…
Learn more about how the Nazis identified and tattooed prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp complex.
Holding hands, the Sonenson family walks along a snow-covered street in Eyshishok in 1940. From left to right are Yitzhak, Moshe, Yaffa, and Zipporah. German forces occupied Eyshishok in June 1941 and initiated a massacre there three months later. The Sonensons survived the war in hiding, but Zipporah was killed shortly after Eyshishok was liberated.
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