The World Jewish Congress appealed today to witnesses of the arrests and murders of Jews by the Nazi Security Police and Security Service early in the invasion of the Soviet Union to come forward and give evidence.
One of the units of the Einsatzgruppe B was the Special Commando 7A, which massacred Jews in an area that was designated as the Central Army Group Command. Involved in the Killings of 70, 000 Jews in a few months were between 80 and 100 members of the Special Commando, consisting of members of the Nazi Criminal Police, State Police, Security Service and Waffen (Weapons) SS.
The Special Command operated in a large area of 39 cities, towns and other localities of mass slaughter, some Jews being killed in the summer of 1941, shortly after the invasion, and some as late as 1943-44.
Among the localities where the killings took place in 1941 were Nowo Molodetschno, Welish, Wilcika, Witebsk, and Weiikije-Luki, and in Kalinin, Staritza and Gorodok. Massacres took place in 1942 at Poger, Wjasma and Wolowka and in 1943 and 1944 in Bobruisk, Borowitsche, Roslawl and some other places. The World Jewish Congress asked anyone who had any information about the killings or who knew persons living in the areas from 1941 to 1944 to communicate with it.
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