Wednesday, May 9, 1945

1. Member of the Associated Press . THE JEWISH READER ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Wednesday, May 9, 1945 Price 5¢ Est. 1899 WAR ENDS JEWS RELEASED! One of the bloodiest wars of all time, ends.________________ World War II finally ends, After year of getting put into camps and beat to the point of death is over. The chants still ring in some peoples heads- All hail Hitler, All Hail Hitler, All Hail the Fuhrer. The Allies have successfully created the United Nations to keep peace at hand. On another note, the Germans were also using this thing called Action T4. What is Action T4? Action T4 was an action that the Germans did. They would take Mentally ill or crippled people, confront them and tell them they are going to be put in surgery which would heal them. The crippled person would agree. But what the person did not know was that the Germans were tricking them and the “hospitals” were actually gas chambers. The German’s T4 Action killed over 200,000 mentally ill or crippled Jews. And also killed another 70,273 Jews at other extermination centers located at psychiatric hospitals. Next we have another report of a man that spent hours apon hour in the mass graves. Here's his story, Avraham Barak was one of many alive Jews to spend hours at a time laying in the mass graves. A.B. was forced into the mass graves along with hundreds of others Jews. After they were forced into the graves, the Germans started rapidly shooting at them. He threw himself down and acted dead as best as he could. He recalls some others just being wounded and the Germans coming around and shooting them in the head. A traumatizing experience, he recalls the guards walking around for an hour looking for even more alive Jews. A.B. says it was a sad day he will never be able to forget. Avraham Barak pictured above