LUBLIN, MIEDZYRZEC, and TREBLINKA, Poland – Israel is commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day this year on May 6th against the backdrop of the October 7th massacre.
Although the scale was smaller, it brought many back to the murder of Jews during the Holocaust and many Israelis felt the spirit was the same.
Shortly before the current war began, CBN News visited the site of Poland’s Treblinka death camp and the city of Lublin, where the Nazis ruled the country in the Second World War.
One part of Lublin became known as the German SS city due to the black-uniformed Nazi’s presence here.
David Pileggi, rector of Christ Church in Jerusalem, leads the Narrow Bridge historical tours of Poland, focusing on areas where the Jewish community lived and prospered for a thousand years and then the Holocaust happened.
He told CBN News, “It was from here (in Lublin) that they planned the murder of over two million Polish Jews. These were the desk murderers – people who were bureaucrats, secretaries, planners, junior officers. They arranged, for this murder to take place, and they were equally, if not more responsible, than those who actually did the physical killing.”
From here, SS squads would organize train timetables, dispatch killing units to
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