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Remember the Holocaust's Forgotten Massacres
(Ha'aretz) Robert R. Singer - Babi Yar. Ponary. Fort IX. Poinitowa. Piaski. Chernovtsy. Mogilev. Rumbula. Last week, we marked 75 years since two Aktionen ("actions"), as the Nazis called these operations, were carried out in the Rumbula forest near Riga, Latvia, beginning on November 29, 1941. In these "actions," 25,000 Jews were shoved into pits dug by Soviet prisoners of war and shot in the head. When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the systematic operation to wipe out the Jews of Eastern Europe began. Over the next 15 months, SS Einsatzgruppen units methodically moved across the region, rounding up local Jews - often with the help of local police - then brutally massacring them before moving on to the next town. More than a million Jews were killed in this "Holocaust of Bullets." Survivors recall drunk German and Latvian officers bursting through their doors, hunting down residents, and throwing children out of windows, driving columns of people to the forest site. The writer is the CEO and Executive Vice President of the World Jewish Congress.