Airbrushing the Ghettoes
From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.
At the heart of the pogrom group, an individual wearing a white armband can be seen. This is the distinctive sign of the members of the Ukrainian militia, who are, for the most part, members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN, particularly its most radical faction, led by Stepan Bandera, the OUN(B). (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leonard Lauder)
When 19-year-old Sara Ginaite escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania during the winter of 1943, she had one clear objective. With the recent arrival of the Schutzstaffel (SS) in the ghetto, it had become clear that its remaining Jews would soon be sent to their deaths. Attempts by Jews in Kaunas to link up […]
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