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His neighbors celebrated. But Dov Levin feared what was to come.

In a surprise attack against its former ally, Germany invaded the Soviet Union #OnThisDay in 1941. Known as Operation Barbarossa, it was the largest German military operation of World War II.

Dov's family was living in Soviet-occupied Lithuania during the invasion. Many of their neighbors welcomed the end of Soviet occupation, even greeting the Germans with flowers.

"We closed our shutters, lowered our curtains, and locked ourselves up in our homes," recalled Dov. As Jews, his family dreaded what might happen to them under Nazi German control.

The Nazi attack on the Soviet Union marked a major turning point in the Holocaust. Soon, Nazi units and their allies and collaborators began shooting entire Jewish communities.

In August 1941, Dov and his family were forced into the Kovno ghetto. He evaded roundups, but his parents and twin sister, Basia, were deported in October 1943. They did not survive.

Shortly before Dov left the ghetto to join resistance fighters in the forest, he gave this photograph to his girlfriend, Rifkale. She hid it in the sole of her shoe and kept it with her while imprisoned in a concentration camp. She returned the photo to Dov when they reunited in 1984. Continue reading

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Yerakhmiel Risio Blass was the Polish-Jewish son of Gdaliyahu and Khana (née Charna) Blass. He was possibly born in Wlocławek in 1936.

He had a sister, Tami (1939). His parents were Polish Jews. In December 1939, both the immediate and extended family, which included cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents, were put on a train from Wloclawek to Zamosc. Khana was pregnant with Tami and began to have contractions. She asked to get off the train together with her husband. When an SS officer saw her husband climb down after her, he was forced to go back on the train. When Khana told the officer that he was her husband, the SS man threw Risio out of the train. It's unknown where exactly Tami was born.

The remaining family on the train were sent onwards to Zamosc ghetto where they remained together until Tami's grandparents were deported to the extermination camps. In 1940, a cousin escaped Zamosc and returned to Warsaw. There she found Khana, Tami and Rysio. She told Khana that everyone was still together in the ghetto and Khana left with the children to join her family. She began to work in the ghetto kitchen where she met a Christian woman, Maria Pavelez. Maria worked in the ghetto but returned home every night. Khana asked Maria to take Tami as she had blue eyes and blonde hair and could easily pass as an Aryan. Soon after Tami went into Maria's care, some neighbors informed the SS of an unknown child in her residence. The SS interrogated Maria who claimed the child was her niece. She wrote a note saying the child had been baptized, and her name was Wanda Maria and then pinned it to her dress.

She pushed her into the yard of a convent where she was taken in and remained there until the end of the war. After the war the monastery asked the local population to take in orphans. A religious family from Izbica took her in and she lived with them until 1948. Then the Coordinatzia Commitee came to claim her, told her she was Jewish and she had to go with them. Continue reading

argot Arnholz was born in Duisburg, Germany, in 1927. She was Jewish, the daughter of Helene (née Cohn) and Willi Arnholz. During the war, Margot and her family moved to Neumühle. Sometime around 1941/1942, they were deported by the Nazis.

Margot and her parents were never heard from again after the war, and it presumed they died in a concentration camp. There was one survivor in Margot’s family, her uncle Leo. That is why there is only one surviving photo of her. Margot was only around fifteen when she was murdered. Continue reading

Johanna Winnik was the Dutch-Jewish daughter of Hartog Winnik and Lea Winnik-Crost. She was born in Amsterdam on the 8th of June 1934. She had a brother, Barend (1923). Her parents were Dutch Jews. On the 2nd of April 1943, 8 year old Johanna and her parents were murdered in Sobibor.

Her 19 year old brother was murdered there on the 2nd of July 1943, possibly having avoided arrest for some time by not being home or by not being deported from Westerbork until later. Continue reading

February 18th, 1478, George Plantagenet was executed by being drowned in a cask of wine.

George was the son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of two kings: Edward IV and Richard IlI.

As his brother Edward IV ascended to the throne in 1461, George was granted the title of Duke of Clarence,

cementing his place as one of the most influential men in England. However, tensions soon began to simmer within the royal family as Edward's favouritism towards his wife's family, the Woodvilles, rankled George and his allies.

In 1470, George's simmering resentment boiled over into

open rebellion when he allied himself with the powerful Warwick the Kingmaker in a bid to overthrow his own brother. The rebellion proved short-lived, and George was forced to flee to France, where he sought refuge at the court of Louis XI.

But George's exile would be short-lived, as the tides of fortune swiftly turned once again. In 1471, Edward IV decisively defeated the forces of Warwick and reclaimed

his throne. With his dreams of kingship dashed, George found himself a pawn in the deadly game of medieval politics.

Desperate to regain his brother's favour, George returned

to England and pledged his loyalty to Edward once more. Yet, despite his professed contrition, suspicions lingered, and George soon found himself embroiled in yet another

conspiracy, this time against the king's own children.

In 1478, George's treachery reached its zenith when he was arrested and charged with high treason. In a swift

and brutal trial, he was found guilty and sentenced to death. Tradition holds that George met his end in a most fitting manner: drowned in a cask of malmsey wine, a fate befitting his noble birth and ignoble deeds. Continue reading

Captured Soviet female soldier. 1941. Due to German belief which prohibited women from serving in the military, as well as the general anti-Soviet attitude of the Wehrmacht, an order was issued according to which all Soviet female combatants were to be put to death

She appears to be a nurse. Female nurses were not considered combatants and were used by both sides, thus the Germans exempted them from that order. The order was made by Field Marshall Gunther von Kluge, commander of the 4th army. It was an illegal order and almost immediately rescinded by higher

command. Given the Wehrmacht approach to rape however; these people likely faced quite a hell if they weren’t under the order.

In contrast, the only American female POW in German captivity was released within a few months from being picked up by the Nazis after the plane she was in crashed. Though she sufferred long term psychological effects following the ordeal, she was treated fairly well and even had her own quarters. Continue reading

In modern history there has never been a more evil serial killer who murdered more people than Andre Chikatilo

Andrei Chikatilo Was born in October 16, 1936 in Ukraine. He was born and lived during the great Stalin purges where little Andre saw thousands of fellow Ukrainians die of starvation and children were snatched away the night and eaten for food. That is the world that Andrei Chikatilo was born into.

Before he was caught and executed he had many nicknames: Butcher of Rostov, the Red Ripper, and the Rostov Ripper.

Chikatilo murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, The Ukrainian SSR and the Uzbek SSR. Chikatilo confessed to fifty-six murders, fifty-three for which he was tried in April 1992.

Chikatilo suffered from Sexual Sadism and bouts of Rage. Chikatilo’s parents we’re both collective farmer laborers who lived in a one room hut with their children. The family received no wages for their work but instead received the right to cultivate a plot of land behind the family hut.

Chikatilo began to show signs of his evil intentions at the early age of 17. He suffered from constant and chronic impotence and he was very shy and did not know how to talk to women.

In May 1973, Chikatilo committed his first sexual assaults, groping and fondling one of his teenage students. Months later he sexually assaulted another student but was not disciplined for either action.

In September 1978, Chikatilo moved to Shakhty, where he committed his first documented murder. On 22 December, he lured a 9-year-old girl named Yelena Zakotnova to an old house which he had secretly purchased; he attempted to rape her but failed to achieve an erection. When the girl struggled, he choked her and stabbed her three times in the abdomen, ejaculating while stabbing the child to death.

Larisa Tkachenko, 17, became his next victim. On September 3, 1981, Chikatilo strangled, stabbed and gagged her with dirt and leaves to prevent her crying out.

The brutal act afforded Chikatilo his sexual release, and he began to develop a pattern of attack that saw him focusing on young runaways of both sexes.

He befriended them at train stations and bus stops, before luring them into nearby forest areas, where he would attack them, attempt rape and use his knife to mutilate them. In a number of cases he ate the sexual organs, or removed other body parts such as the tips of their noses or tongues. Continue reading see how he was caught and executed

Meet Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.

Joseph Stalin, the late leader of the even later USSR, was responsible for the death of millions. It is estimated that Mr. Stalin was responsible for the death of an estimated 60 million people according to Historian A Solzhenitsyn. The Soviet Union, albeit one of the greatest empires and establishments in history, was the one of the biggest serial killers with Joseph at its head. Leading the Russians through one of the bloodiest wars in history, Joseph Stalin was a visionary leader. However, his cunning distraction went almost unnoticed under American eyes due to the rise of Nazi Germany.

All in all, Joseph Stalin was a cunning torchbearer which left the World in dust behind him. His attributes will always be well-remembered. His ruthlessness was the reason why most historians refer to him as one of the most brutal and savage serial killers in history. Mercilessly, he slaughtered millions, without even giving it the time of day. Why? Although his intentions were political, sociological, and economic gain, he still did commit horrible atrocities. Some could even argue that there are countries in the present day that replicate the mass slaughterings similar to that of Joseph Stalins’. We are indeed living in dark times. Continue reading

Phil Jablonski

Phil is definitely a cold-blooded man. Every time, I would write him a totally normal letter, asking how he was, how he’s feeling, what he’s up to, etc.

I’d promptly get an 18-page letter back sharing detailed descriptions about his crimes. He loved reminiscing about his crimes. It gave him pleasure.

That being said, he also enjoyed talking about other killers. Early on, he found out that I was friends with Dennis Rader (BTK). He was very eager to know what Dennis was up to, how he was doing, etc. He talked about Dennis’s killings like a guy at the bar would talk about a quarterback. He would talk about his techniques, which ones he liked and disliked, which ones he also tried. He also talked about where Dennis went wrong.

Even more interesting, when he found out that Dennis was doing art again, he made a piece of art for me to send to Dennis.

Therefore, for some, I do believe they are interested in what other serial killers are doing, just like an…and I hate to make the comparison, but I have no choice…like a craftsman or artist keeps up on his equals.

This can also be seen in killers like Patrick Kearney and Dennis Rader. These men kept newspaper clippings and read up on other killers. This would serve as motivation and fascination.

However, other types of killers do not admire other killers.

one of my most long-lasting pen pals is considered an “angel of death” killer, Efren Sadivar. His body count could easily be in the hundreds, yet we have never once talked about his crimes, and he always PORTRAYS himself as a very meek individual. Frankly, he’s one of the few that I’ve never been able to get a full read on, even after multiple years. Continue reading

Jerry Brudos

A serial killer and necrophiliac who killed 4 young women.

The weird : He had a bizarre fetish for women's shoes since he was a child. He began stealing women's shoes and underwears as a kid. As a teenager, he would stalk women, knock them down unconscious, and flee with their shoes.

After his marriage, he would ask his bride to do housework naked except for a pair of high heels while he take pictures. Some years later, he started killing women. After committing a murder, he would dress up in high heels and masturbate.

He was later caught and sentenced to life in prison. There, he would write to shoe companies and ask for shoe catalogues containing pictures of shoes. His jail cell was full of such catalogues which he claimed were his substitute for pornography. Read more

ISIS murderers released a series of pictures showing the execution of two ‘spies’.

Taken in the caliphate’s Syrian capital Raqqa, two men are shot while tied to a cross in a post entitled ‘Harvest of the Spies’.

Using a computer game-style ‘first-person view’ the two crucified victims are blasted in the head while clad in orange overalls. The images were published on the group’s Wilayat ar-Raqqah TV channel.

The blindfolded men had been paraded in front of a baying crowd as accusations of espionage against the terrorist group were read out. They were they bound to the cross as extremists clad in camouflaged uniform taunted them.

Both men are then shot at close range with a pistol by an unidentified terrorist who has a camera attached to his gun. The victims then have a statement in Arabic pinned to their chest, warning others against committing similar crimes against the caliphate. • 2016 read more

Soviet female POW in German captivity, 1941. German soldiers were ordered to execute female servicemen on the spot. Often before doing so, these unfortunate women faced all sorts of humiliations and abuse from their captors

The Germans had very sexist views on society and viewed the practice of having women serving in the military and participating in combat as barbaric. Orders were passed by German generals where they told their

men to execute female soldiers on the spot. Add to this the fact that Germans viewed Slavic people as subhumans half of whom needed to be exterminated which doesn't make this order seem unreal.

Nazi Germany didn't let women work in essential war industries for the same reason. Instead they

imported men from occupied countries (especially slavs) to serve as industrial slaves/serfs. When the Third Reich finally went to a total war economy it was in 1944 and way too late to change anything

Instead they imported men from occupied countries (especially slavs) to serve as industrial slaves/serfs.

And if I recall they ran into a lot of issues with sub-standard products as a result. If the guy making your fancy new jet fighter is a slave who hates you, you may run into QC issues. Read story

Carola Tuteur was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on September 17, 1925. She was Jewish, the daughter of Paul and Charlotte Tuteur. She also had a younger brother, Claus. When Carola was seven years old, the Nazis came to power.

In 1938, the Kristallnacht pogrom swept across Germany and Austria. It was at this time that Carola’s parents decided that they needed to leave Germany. Carola and Claus left Germany on the kindertransport in 1938, arriving in Belgium. Their parents initially could not escape, but in 1939 they were able to flee to England.

During the war, Carola’s parents tried to find their children and bring them to England, but when Belgium was invaded in 1940, it was too late. In 1943, Carola and Claus were arrested and sent to the Malines transit camp. They were held there for a few months.

On April 4, 1944, the siblings were deported to Auschwitz. They were both sent to the gas chambers. Carola was eighteen years old. Claus was sixteen. May their memories be blessings. Read more

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Beniamin Korobochka was born in the eastern village of Rokitno, Poland, in 1934. He was Jewish, the son of Khena (née Gandelman) and Yoel.

Beniamin and his family were among the 800 Jews that lived in the city. In 1939, the Soviets occupied Eastern Poland, including Rokitno. The Soviets banned all religious activities and some Jews who continued practicing were sent away for "re-education”. In 1941, the Nazis invaded. Several hundred Jews fled at this time.

Beniamin and his family either chose to stay or were unable to flee before the Germans arrived. A few months later, a small ghetto was established and the town’s Jews were forced to live there. It was extremely overcrowded, and consisted of only fifty houses for more than a thousand people.

On August 26, 1942, hundreds of people from the ghetto were taken into the market square and shot. Over the next two days, the remaining residents were taken to the woods and shot. Beniamin and his parents were among those murdered in the woods. He was eight years old. May his memory be a blessing. Read more

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Levie Jakob Magnus was born in Almelo, the Netherlands, on October 10, 1931. He was Jewish, the son of Louise and Benjamin Magnus. He also had an older sister. He and his family lived at Tabaksgaarden 52, Rijssen, along with Levie’s uncle and elderly grandmother.

When Levie was just eight years old, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. In July 1942, his family was forced to register as being Jewish by the Germans. Shortly after this, they went into hiding. Their circumstances of hiding are unknown. Sometime in 1944, they were arrested and sent to the death camps.

Levie was sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp. The camp was liberated on May 5, 1945. Levie died of malnutrition on May 10. He was thirteen years old. His father died in a different camp of malnutrition in February of 1945. His sister survived the war and changed her name. No information could be found about her. His mother was never heard from after the war, and her fate is unknown. Levie’s grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins were almost all killed in the Holocaust. May their memories be blessings. Read more

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Roma Fejgienbaum was born on March 10, 1929. She was Jewish, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, to parents Shmuel and Nekhama.

When Roma was young, she and her parents moved to Kielce. The Nazis invaded in September 1939 and immediately began massacring Jews and Poles with little mercy.

By 1940, there were about 24,000 Jews in Kielce. In 1941, a ghetto was established. In just one year in the ghetto, more than four thousand people died of starvation. Roma and her family survived the winter in the ghetto, but were deported to Treblinka in August of 1942. All three were murdered there in the gas chambers. She was thirteen years old.

As of March 1943, there were forty-five Jewish children left in Kielce. They were shot in May. May their memories be blessings. Read more

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Woman wanted for murder of boyfriend in Jackson on July 4 arrested in Natchez

NATCHEZ — A woman who had been wanted by Jackson Police Department for the murder of her boyfriend on July 4 has just been taken into custody in Natchez. JPD has warrants for 35-year-old Aziza Young for automobile theft and murder for the shooting death of Adrione Triggs, 45, of Jackson on July 4. Young called The Natchez Democrat from 3005 Lafitte Street after 3 p.m. Monday, saying that she wanted to turn herself in, but she was scared of police and wanted the media to be there.

Adams County Sheriff Travis Patten said around the same time, he had received an anonymous tip that a suspect who is wanted for murder by JPD was in the area. “I contacted Chief (Joseph) Wade the name of the individual (Young) who the tipster said was in our community and he said it was accurate and they were looking for her for a murder charge and that she was supposed to turn herself in to the police department in Jackson at 3 p.m. but she did not,” Patten said. Adams County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Natchez Police officers arrived at the residence shortly after and found Young standing outside, where she had been taken into custody without incident.

It is unclear at this time how Young came to Natchez. According to reports, she allegedly left the scene of the murder driving Trigg’s vehicle, a 2009 White Honda Accord. However, she did not have the vehicle at Lafitte Street in Natchez. “When we pulled up she was standing right here in front of this house,” Patten said. “We were able to take her into custody without any incident. She didn’t resist or fight or do anything. She was just scared. … She was standing there trembling because she didn’t know how it was going to go.” JPD Chief Joseph Wade told reporters that Young attempted to drag or move the body at some point after the shooting took place. Witnesses said that Young was not acting in self-defense, according to Wade.

When Young contacted The Democrat, she stated her boyfriend attacked her and threatened to kill her and had been shot. She also said she discarded the weapon so that “it wouldn’t hurt anyone else.” “I’m not armed or dangerous,” she said. Patten said arrangements are being made for Young to be transported to Jackson. Read more

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