Part VII A second group of perpetrators consisted of professionals and experts, who were not involved in politics. One was physicians. Half of the German

Part VI Why Did They Murder? Who Were They? What motivated the Germans to become mass murderers of Jews and others in the east? Historian

Part V How Were the Jews Murdered? In the East, “most of the Jews” were murdered through mass executions—“a killing procedure that had proven its

Part IV Justification for Murdering Every Jewish Man, Woman and Child In a speech on October 6, 1943, to the Reichsleiter (the second-highest political rank

Part III Operational Situation Reports The ruthless, unprecedented destruction by the Einsatzgruppen of the Jews was documented in great detail in daily Operational Situation Reports

Part II Providing Legitimacy for Murdering Civilians Even though the members of the Einsatzgruppen were recruited from the Security Police, the Security Services (SD), the

Part I On June 22, 1941, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. It has been called the “most monstrous war of conquest, enslavement and extermination

Part V Unprecedented Access to Visas In July 1946, Irving Bunim, Stephen Klein and Rabbi Joseph Baumel of the Mizrachi met with Dean Acheson, then

Part III The Search for A Solution Rabbi Eliezer Silver, who had established the Vaad, and Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, chairman of the presidium of the

Part II A Call for Unity Given the tremendous needs of the survivors not being met and the absence of a concentrated effort by the

Part I The Vaad Hatzala had been established in November 1939. At the urging of Rabbi Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski, the leading rabbinical authority in Lithuania