THE WORLD FAMOUS HISTORY AND PAST EVENTS

The horror of Einsatzgruppen Einsatzgruppen( 'deployment groups'; also 'task forces') were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The Einsatzgruppen had an integral role in the implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish question" (Die Endlösung der Judenfrage) in territories conquered by Nazi Germany, and were involved in the murder of much of the intelligentsia and cultural elite of Poland, including members of the Catholic priesthood. Almost all of the people they murdered were civilians, beginning with the intelligentsia and swiftly progressing to Soviet political commissars, Jews, and Romani people, as well as actual or alleged partisans throughout Eastern Europe. Under the direction of  Reichsführer-SS  Heinrich Himmler and the supervision of SS- Obergruppenführer  Reinhard Heydrich, the  Ei...

Jonas saved over 2,000 fellow Jews during the Holocaust.  During the Holocaust, Jewish couple Jonas and Valerie Eckstein found a way to not only save their baby daughter, but also to assist and rescue many other Jews.  Amid the first wave of deportations from Slovakia in 1942, Jonas helped feed Jews from Bratislava who had been rounded up and imprisoned in Slovak assembly camps prior to deportation.  He also hid people in a bunker under his own home—and cared for and fed multiple groups of hidden Jews, including people hiding in the main synagogue in Bratislava and orphans from Poland (posing with him in the second photo). Meanwhile, Valerie gave birth to their daughter, Tova, in 1942. The family initially remained together, but then separated as the situation deteriorated. Fearing for Tova's life, they found a family in a nearby town to hide her.  Jonas and Valerie were eventually caught and deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where they remained for several mont...