What Were the Mass Murder Sites?

When one thinks of the Holocaust, one likely imagines cattle cars and barbed wire. But for more than 2 million Jewish victims, there were no camps. Following the German invasion of the USSR in 1941, entire communities were liquidated in broad daylight. From the Baltics to Ukraine, men, women, and children were murdered by the Einsatzgruppen, German Police, various German SS units, the German armed forces, and local collaborators in the forests and ravines right outside their own hometowns. Watch this reel to learn about the first stage of the “Final Solution,” the systemic extermination of European Jewry.