{"id":15063,"date":"2016-05-08T07:49:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T12:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15063"},"modified":"2016-05-08T07:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T12:49:37","slug":"holocaust-history-mapping-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/08\/holocaust-history-mapping-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust History: Mapping the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15064\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/jews1.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"jews1\" width=\"620\" height=\"482\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">JERUSALEM \u2014 Nini Ungar clearly recalled that Friday in February 1942 when the Nazis loaded her, her husband and her parents on a cattle cart and transferred them, standing upright, to the railway station in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">She was in her mid-20s and did not yet know that she was pregnant. The family had already spent days in the squalid compound of a school where thousands of Jews destined for deportation were warehoused. She was among 1,000 on the transport that set out that day for the ghetto in Riga, Latvia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"salaspils-concentration-camp\" class=\"interactive interactive-embedded limit-xsmall layout-xsmall\">\n<div class=\"interactive-graphic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"footer\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cThe Viennese were standing and laughing. \u2018Finally they got the Jews out!\u2019 \u201d Ms. Ungar, who was born Mina Tepper and was one of only 36 from that transport to survive the war, recounted in <a href=\"http:\/\/db.yadvashem.org\/deportation\/multimedia.html?language=en#!prettyPhoto\/30\/\">video testimony<\/a>. \u201cWe scraped the ice from the windows \u2014 we were so thirsty. We didn\u2019t have water. We didn\u2019t have anything,\u201d she said of the train journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Her journey across a wintry Europe can now be traced on a <a href=\"http:\/\/db.yadvashem.org\/deportation\/search.html?language=en\">database<\/a> that documents about 1,100 transports, searchable by train (or boat or bus) or victim\u2019s name. A project of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yadvashem.org\/\">Yad Vashem<\/a>, Israel\u2019s Holocaust memorial and research center, the database sheds new light on the cross-border, Europewide nature of the stages leading to the mass extermination of some six million Jews, known in Hebrew as the Shoah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/06\/world\/middleeast\/mapping-the-holocaust-how-jews-were-taken-to-their-final-destinations.html?ref=middleeast&amp;_r=1&amp;utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&amp;utm_campaign=548f826045-2016_05_06&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_adb46cec92-548f826045-55343657\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM \u2014 Nini Ungar clearly recalled that Friday in February 1942 when the Nazis loaded her, her husband and her parents on a cattle cart and transferred them, standing upright, to the railway station in Vienna. She was in her mid-20s and did not yet know that she was pregnant. 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