"I well remember a girl, slim and with black hair, who, as she passed close to me, pointed to herself and said, '23'."
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January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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linked photo: Jewish women from the Mizocz Ghetto in the Ukraine, which held
roughly 1,700 Jews. Some are holding infants as they are forced to wait
in a line before their execution by Germans and Ukrainian collaborators.
[Photo credits: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1065461]
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One eyewitness account of the Holocaust follows.
Before me, Homer B.
Crawford, being authorized to administer oaths, personally appeared Hermann
Friedrich Graebe, who, being by me duly sworn through the interpreter Elisabeth
Radzie-Jewska, made and subscribed the following statement:
I, Hermann Friedrich Graebe, declare under oath:
From September 1941-January 1944 I was manager and engineer-in-charge of a
branch office in Sdolbunow, Ukraine, of the Solingen building firm of Josef
Jung. In this capacity it was my job to visit the building sites of the firm.
Under contract to an Army Construction Office, the firm had orders to erect
grain storage buildings on the former airport of Dubno, Ukraine.
On 5 October 1942, when I visited the building office at Dubno, my foreman
Hubert Moennikes of 21 Aussenmuehlenweg, Hamburg-Haarburg, told me that in the
vicinity of the site, Jews from Dubno had been shot in three large pits, each
about 30 meters long and 3 meters deep. About 1500 persons had been killed
daily. All of the 5000 Jews who had still been living in Dubno before the pogrom
were to be liquidated. As the shootings had taken place in his presence he was
still much upset.
Thereupon I drove to the site, accompanied by Moennikes and saw near it great
mounds of earth, about 30 meters long and 2 meters high. Several trucks stood in
front of the mounds. Armed Ukrainian militia drove the people off the trucks
under the supervision of an SS-man. The militia men acted as guards on the
trucks and drove them to and from the pit. All these people had the regulation
yellow patches on the front and back of their clothes, and thus could be
recognized as Jews.
Moennikes and I went directly to the pits. Nobody bothered us. Now I heard rifle
shots in quick succession, from behind one of the earth mounds. The people who
had got off the trucks -- men, women, and children of all ages -- had to undress
upon the order of an SS-man, who carried a riding or dog whip. They had to put
down their clothes in fixed places, sorted according to shoes, top clothing and
underclothing. I saw a heap of shoes of about 800 to 1000 pairs, great piles of
under-linen and clothing. Without screaming or weeping these people undressed,
stood around in family groups, kissed each other, said farewells and waited for
a sign from another SS-man, who stood near the pit, also with a whip in his
hand. During the 15 minutes that I stood near the pit I heard no complaint or
plea for mercy. I watched a family of about 8 persons, a man and woman, both
about 50 with their children of about 1, 8 and 10, and two grownup daughters of
about 20 to 24. An old woman with snow-white hair was holding the one-year old
child in her arms and singing to it, and tickling it. The child was cooing with
delight. The couple were looking on with tears in their eyes. The father was
holding the hand of a boy about 10 years old and speaking to him softly; the boy
was fighting his tears. The father pointed toward the sky, stroked his head, and
seemed to explain something to him. At that moment the SS-man at the pit shouted
something to his comrade. The latter counted off about 20 persons and instructed
them to go behind the earth mound. Among them was the family, which I have
mentioned. I well remember a girl, slim and with black hair, who, as she passed
close to me, pointed to herself and said, "23". I walked around the mound, and
found myself confronted by a tremendous grave. People were closely wedged
together and lying on top of each other so that only their heads were visible.
Nearly all had blood running over their shoulders from their heads. Some of the
people shot were still moving. Some were lifting their arms and turning their
heads to show that they were still alive. The pit was already 2/3 full. I
estimated that it already contained about 1000 people. I looked for the man who
did the shooting. He was an SS-man, who sat at the edge of the narrow end of the
pit, his feet dangling into the pit. He had a tommy gun on his knees and was
smoking a cigarette. The people, completely naked, went down some steps which
were cut in the clay wall of the pit and clambered over the heads of the people
lying there, to the place to which the SS-man directed them. They lay down in
front of the dead or injured people; some caressed those who were still alive
and spoke to them in a low voice. Then I heard a series of shots. I looked into
the pit and saw that the bodies were twitching or the heads lying already
motionless on top of the bodies that lay before them. Blood was running from
their necks. I was surprised that I was not ordered away, but I saw that there
were two or three postmen in uniform nearby. The next batch was approaching
already. They went down into the pit, lined themselves up against the previous
victims and were shot. When I walked back, round the mound I noticed another
truckload of people which had just arrived. This time it included sick and
infirm people. An old, very thin woman with terribly thin legs was undressed by
others who were already naked, while two people held her up. The woman appeared
to be paralyzed. The naked people carried the woman around the mound. I left
with Moennikes and drove in my car back to Dubno.
On the morning of the next day, when I again visited the site, I saw about 30
naked people lying near the pit -- about 30 to 50 meters away from it. Some of
them were still alive; they looked straight in front of them with a fixed stare
and seemed to notice neither the chilliness of the morning nor the workers of my
firm who stood around. A girl of about 20 spoke to me and asked me to give her
clothes, and help her escape. At that moment we heard a fast car approach and I
noticed that it was an SS-detail. I moved away to my site. 10 minutes later we
hear shots from the vicinity of the pit. The Jews still alive had been ordered
to throw the corpses into the pit -- then they had themselves to lie down in
this to be shot in the neck.
I make the above statement at Wiesbaden, Germany, on 10 November 1945. I swear
before God that this is the absolute truth.
Hermann Friedrich Graebe
Subscribed and sworn to before me at Wiesbaden, Germany, 10 November 1945.
Homer B. Crawford Major, AC Investigator Examiner, War Crimes Branch
I, Elisabeth Radziejewska, being first duly sworn, state: That I truly
translated the oath administered by Major Homer B. Crawford to Hermann Friedrich
Graebe and that thereupon he made and subscribed the foregoing statement in my
presence.
Elisabeth Radziejewska Interpreter
Subscribed and sworn to before me at Wiesbaden, Germany, 10 November 1945.
Homer B. Crawford,
Major, AC Investigator Examiner,
War Crimes Branch
Source: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=61761
"These documents speak for themselves. They are collected at "Document 2992-PS: Affidavit of Hermann Friedrich Graebe [translation]", in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. Volume V: US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1946. pp. 696-703"
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Revelation 6:10 "And they-cried with-(a)-great voice saying: Till at-what-time, the despot namely-the holy and authentic, are-you not judging and avenging our blood out-of the (ones) residing on the earth?"
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Isaiah 40:1-2 "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins."
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Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: They shall prosper that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, And prosperity within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
9 For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy good.
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Revelation 22:20 The (one) witnessing these-things
is-saying: Yea I-am-coming speedily. Amen, you-be-coming, Lord Jesus.
v21 The favor of-the Lord Jesus (be) with all.
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January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Holidays/Winter_Holidays/IHRD/ihrd.html
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Much of this information on this page is also on pp 62-63 of Discourse 8: Bible Translation ---The Serpent's "Playground", by R.H. Mount.
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