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Salle 6 - Exécution d’otages
August–October 1941

The final composition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in April 1942. Its goal: to organize political and material support from the Western world for the USSR’s fight against Nazism.

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Photo, 1941 © Russian State Film and Photo Archives

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6.2 The Massacres of Jews in Eastern Europe

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Documents from the same period

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

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.

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).

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

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

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