Robin L. Bernstein, Harvest Festival, 2020, string and wax on wood, 46” x 34"
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Harvest Festival
Beginning at dawn on November 3, 1943 the Nazis responded to ever increasing Jewish resistance. The armed conflicts in the Warsaw, Bialystok, and Vilna ghettos, and the uprisings at Sobibor and Treblinka sent the Nazis into a murderous rage. Despite the economic necessity of keeping the forced labor camps in the Lublin District fully operational, they decided instead to kill every Jew, naming the operation - Harvest Festival. 18,400 Jews, separated from other prisoners, were killed in a single day at Majdanek, 4,000 at Trawniki, and 11,000 in two days at Poniatowa. The murders were committed by the SS, by Police Battalion 101, and the Hiwis/Trawniki Men (volunteer collaborators from Eastern and Central Europe, mostly Soviet POWs). The massacre at Majdanek was the largest single-day, single-location mass murder during the Holocaust.
For further reading: www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-this-day-nazis-muerder-43-000-in-one-day-1.5283950
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