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Heartbroken and shattered Warsaw parents witnessed the rapid deterioration of their beloved children.
Photo: Rafael Scharf / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
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Dressed in rags and bandages, many of those trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto wandered aimlessly through the streets.
Photo: Rafael Scharf / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
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Many children of the Warsaw Ghetto, orphaned and alone, sought refuge in sleep when their strength escaped them. Mortality rates for the young skyrocketed during the winter of 1941.
Photo: Rafael Scharf / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
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June 22, 1941: Operation Barbarossa begins, as a massive German force invades the Soviet Union, immersing Germany in a two-front war and breaking the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939.
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June 22, 1941: Special mobile killing squads--Einsatzgruppen --each assigned to a particular area of the Occupied Soviet Union, begin killing Jews on the spot wherever they are found, and often with the help of local antisemites recruited to help.
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June 22, 1941: In the Soviet village of Virbalis, Einsatzgruppen machine-gun all adult Jews and cover the corpses with lime. Local children are seized by the ankles, and their heads are smashed against walls and roads. Many of these children are buried alive.
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June 24, 1941: The Wehrmacht occupies Kovno, Lithuania, where 10,000 Jews will be murdered by the end of July.
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The Holocaust Chronicle
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