The Onset of Mass Murder: The Fate of Jewish Families in the Soviet Union in 1941

(Yad Vashem) This new online exhibition highlights the stories of 12 Jewish families who were caught in the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Following the invasion, mass shootings committed by the Einsatzgruppen, other German soldiers and police forces, and local collaborators began across Eastern Europe and continued into 1943, during which 1.5 million Jews were murdered.