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Soviet Nazi killer who killed Sobibor officers with an axe - Simjon Rosenfeld

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Published on Dec 12, 2024

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Simjon Moiseyevich Rosenfeld, the son of a tailor, was born on October 1, 1922, in the Ukrainian village of Ternivka. Simjon had two sisters, and as a child he lived through the man-made famine known as the Holodomor, which devastated Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s, killing millions of Ukrainians. Young Simjon grew up in his home village and attended a Jewish school, which was converted into a Ukrainian school in 1936. World War II began on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. In 1940, Simjon graduated from high school and at the age of 18 was drafted into the Red Army, where he served in the 150th Heavy Artillery Regiment. On June 22, 1941, less than two years after the start of World War II, Nazi Germany, under the code name Operation Barbarossa, invaded the Soviet Union, its ally in the war against Poland. In June of that same year, Rosenfeld’s regiment was stationed between the cities of Minsk and Baranovichy, then part of the Byelorussian SSR. Rosenfeld was wounded during heavy fighting and captured by the Germans, becoming a prisoner of war. The SS imprisoned him in the Minsk ghetto, where he was required to perform hard physical labor for two years. The Germans had established the Minsk ghetto in the northwestern part of Minsk in late July 1941, and it housed about 80,000 people, including Jews from nearby towns. Between November 1941 and October 1942, the German government deported nearly 24,000 Jews from Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to Minsk. Most of them were shot or gassed (in special gas vans) by SS and police authorities upon arrival in Maly Trostinets, a small village nearly eight miles to the east. The German occupation authorities housed the rest in a separate section of the Minsk ghetto, segregated from the local Belarusian Jews. Little contact was allowed between the residents of the two ghettos. When Rosenfeld's transport arrived at Sobibor in September 1943, everyone was taken off the train. Rosenfeld later recalled that the Germans had separated the non-Jewish soldiers from the Jews, but the SS was afraid to shoot them because they were still considered prisoners of war. In total, 80 Jews from Minsk were held at Sobibor. Later, when one of the prisoners asked a German camp guard where the rest of his friends from the train were, the guard pointed to the smoking chimney and replied that they were "over there." Disclaimer: All opinions and comments are those of members of the public and do not reflect the views of World History channel EN. We do not tolerate the promotion of hatred and violence against individuals or groups based on characteristics such as: race, nationality, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation. World History reserves the right to review comments and delete them if they are deemed inappropriate. #worldhistory #history

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