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Tuesday, 19 May 2009

French priest interviews Hitler's willing executioners in Ukraine

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Tags: jewish world, Holocaust


A horrific page of history unfolded last Monday in Ukraine. It concerned the gruesome and untold story of a spontaneous pogrom by local villagers against hundreds of Jews in a town south of Ternopil in 1941. Not one, but five independent witnesses recounted the tale, recalling how they rushed to a German army camp, borrowed weapons and gunned down 500 Jews inside the town's Christian cemetery. One of them remembered decapitating bodies in front of the church. Read All at :