Toutes les salles

The Jewish section of the M.O.I.

Against Fascism | Outbreak of War

Jan 1940 - Sept 1940

The Occupation | Creation of “Solidarity”

Sept 1940 - June 1941

State Antisemitism | Responses

June - August 1941

Armed resistance

August - Oct 1941

Execution of hostages

Persecutions | The Resistance

Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup | The FTP-M.O.I.

July 1942 - Feb 1943

Rescue of Jewish Children 

August 1942 - May 1943

Stalingrad | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Creation of the UJRE

Jan 1943 - Mar 1944

Repression | The Major Surveillance Operations

Apr 1943 - March 1944

Unification of the Resistance

Insurrection and Liberation

Oct 1944 - Nov 1945

End of the War | Reconstruction

Salle 6 - Exécution d’otages

August–October 1941

Executions of civilians (mostly Jews) near Kovno (Lithuania) by members of Einsatzgruppe A and local fascist militiamen (July 1941).

Photo, 1941, Lithuania. Public domain

Room

6.2 The Massacres of Jews in Eastern Europe

Period

1941

Document Type

Keywords

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Geographic area

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Source

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Documents from the same period

Newspapers

Our Parole of September 1, 1941, and Unzer Wort of September 1, 1941, published the appeal issued by Soviet Jewish leaders on August 24.

Photos

A crowd looks on at the aftermath of the massacre at the Lietukis garage, where pro-German Lithuanian nationalists killed more than 50 Jews. Kaunas, Lithuania, June 27, 1941.

Photos

Execution of Jews by the SS of Einsatzgruppe D and Ukrainian militiamen. Photo taken by a Nazi, captioned “The Last Jew of Vinnytsia.” (September 1941).

Photos

Executions in the USSR carried out by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) in 1941; the victims are thrown into mass graves.

Notes

Ghetto

Postcards

Locations of the massacres carried out by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile extermination units) in Eastern Europe from 1941 to 1942.