Lunchbox Lecture: Holocaust By Bullets

Before the killing centers opened at Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek, Jews were already being murdered by the Germans, their Axis allies, and local collaborators in Ukraine, Belarus, and other USSR republics.

By Jennifer Popowycz, PhD, Leventhal Research Fellow, Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, The National WWII Museum

Before the killing centers opened at Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek, Jews were already being murdered by the Germans, their Axis allies, and local collaborators in Ukraine, Belarus, and other USSR republics. This presentation will provide an in-depth examination of the Holocaust in Ukraine, in which an estimated 1.5 million Jews were shot to death at close range in ravines, open fields, and forests.