MAKE A MEME View Large Image Members of a Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp.png Members of the Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp in a photo ...
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Keywords: Members of a Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp.png Members of the Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp in a photo discovered by a Soviet war crimes investigation team called officially the Extraordinary State Commission for ascertaining and investigating crimes perpetrated by the German “Fascist invaders and their accomplices Soviet prosecutor Colonel Lev Smirnov http //avalon law yale edu/imt/02-14-46 asp testified in regards to the bone crushing before the Nuremberg Trails in February 1946 and submitted photos of the machines http //avalon law yale edu/imt/02-19-46 asp According to Smirnov over 200 000 Soviet citizens were exterminated at Janowska In reality the victims were not Soviet They were predominantly Polish Jews as well as members of other ethnic groups from the south-eastern territories of the prewar Second Polish Republic trapped in the Soviet occupation zone following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 <p> A bone crusher from Janowska and other items such as a bar of soap made from human fat and gloves of human skin produced in the camps http //www warmuseum kiev ua/eng/z6 shtml can be seen in the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Kiev http //collections ushmm org/search/catalog/pa5052 Jewish prisoners forced to work for a Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp ushmm org between June 1943 and Oct 1943 U S Holocaust Memorial Museum OR http //www ushmm org/wlc/fr/media_ph php MediaId 1887 1 August 1944 Mémorial de la Shoah Paris; the Lviv region was recaptured by the Red Army in late July 1944 SS officer who had worked in Janowska concentration camp U S Holocaust Memorial Museum United States Holocaust Memorial Museum courtesy of Belarussian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography The Holocaust Nazi Germany Images from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Sonderkommando Bone crushers
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