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Children were useless from the Nazi point of view because they could not do heavy labor, so they were often among the first to be deported.
Photo: Arnold Shay / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
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Teenagers were also deported early because they were considered the most likely to partake in resistance. Pictured here are several Jewish adolescents from the ghetto in the Polish town of Bedzin, home to one of Eastern Europe's most active youth Resistance movements.
Photo: Arnold Shay / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
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The fervent desire for freedom held by many Bedzin youth worried the Nazis, particularly because these young men and women had consciously broken with Jewish tradition, and their actions were likely to be daring and unpredictable. The young Bedzin residents seen here may very well have been among the 5000 Jews deported to Auschwitz from Bedzin in August 1942.
Photo: Arnold Shay / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
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August 19, 1942: At the Belzec extermination camp, 700 to 800 Jews herded into a gas chamber wait in torment for nearly three hours until a balky diesel engine can be started and the chamber filled with deadly exhaust. SS gas/disinfectant expert but anti-Nazi Kurt Gerstein is on hand to observe; See August 20-24, 1942.
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August 19-23, 1942: Seventeen thousand Jews from Lutsk, Ukraine, are taken to Polanka Hill and executed.
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August 20, 1942: The ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organization) attempts to assassinate Joseph Szerynski, commander of the Jewish police in the Warsaw Ghetto. Later in the day, other ZOB members set fire to several Warsaw warehouses.
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August 20, 1942: The Jewish community from Falenica, Poland, is liquidated at the Treblinka death camp.
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