(Israel Hayom) Details are only now emerging about more than 1,100 German-run ghettos in Eastern Europe where the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews. "There were actually about 200 more ghettos than previously believed," said Martin Dean, editor of the recently published Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II. It's part of a long-term effort to document every site of organized Nazi persecution. Helen Segall, now 81, was 11 when she witnessed SS troops torch her town of about 2,000 residents in Mizocz, Ukraine, with hundreds of hidden Jews burned to death before they could escape. Others were killed outside the town. "People had to undress and walk in small groups into the trench and lie face down, where they were shot by an SS man helped by a Ukrainian policeman," she wrote. In two days - Oct. 13 and 14, 1942 - the 300-year-old town "ceased to exist," wrote Segall.
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