[Narration, archive and Survivor testimony]
Hannah was a six-year-old Polish girl who was a prisoner, along with her mother, in a small work camp in eastern Poland when men from an Einsatzgruppe (a killing
squad) came to clear the camp. Hannah describes how she saw her mother standing with other inmates at the water well but pointedly avoiding looking at her standing in a doorway nearby. She didn’t understand why her mother was doing this until an order was given and her mother, and the others, were shot. Hannah realised that she must stay silent in order to stay alive.
[Narration, archive and Survivor testimony]
Hannah was a six-year-old Polish girl who was a prisoner, along with her mother, in a small work camp in eastern Poland when men from an Einsatzgruppe (a killing
squad) came to clear the camp. Hannah describes how she saw her mother standing with other inmates at the water well but pointedly avoiding looking at her standing in a doorway nearby. She didn’t understand why her mother was doing this until an order was given and her mother, and the others, were shot. Hannah realised that she must stay silent in order to stay alive.
Inna was 13 when she witnessed the Einsatzgruppen shooting of 33,771 people at Babi Yar in Ukraine.
Renee was 12 when she saw the Lodz ghetto being ‘liquidated’ or cleared by the Einsatzgruppen.
Austrian Police volunteer Walter volunteered to join a shooting squad.
