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mostly Jews, Russians, Krymchaks, and Gypsies. [31] On one<br />

occasion, starting December 9, 1941, the Einsatzgruppen<br />

D under Otto Ohlendorf's command killed an estimated 14,300<br />

Simferopol residents, most <strong>of</strong> them being Jews.<br />

<br />

<strong>The</strong> massacre <strong>of</strong> 100,000 Jews and Poles at Paneriai<br />

<br />

<strong>The</strong> suppression <strong>of</strong> the 1943 <strong>War</strong>saw Ghetto Uprising which erupted when<br />

the SS came to clear the Jewish ghetto and send all <strong>of</strong> the occupants to<br />

extermination camps<br />

<br />

Izieu Massacre Izieu was the site <strong>of</strong> a Jewish orphanage during the<br />

Second World <strong>War</strong>. On 6 April 1944, three vehicles pulled up in front <strong>of</strong><br />

the orphanage. <strong>The</strong> Gestapo, under the direction <strong>of</strong> the 'Butcher <strong>of</strong> Lyon'<br />

Klaus Barbie, entered the orphanage and forcibly removed the forty-four<br />

children and their seven supervisors, throwing the crying and terrified<br />

children on to the trucks. Following the raid on their home in Izieu, the<br />

children were shipped directly to the "collection center" in Drancy, then put<br />

on the first available train towards the concentration camps in the East.<br />

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