"There is nothing more eloquent than numbers." Victims of the so-called Great Liquidation Action
Perpetrators of genocide often pay little attention to the number of those murdered. The ultimate act of dehumanizing victims is to completely strip them of their subjectivity—to the point that they become a nameless mass, not individual persons—with names, surnames, or even numbers. In the morning hours of July 22, 1942, several cars pulled up to the building at 26 Grzybowska Street, then the seat of the Jewish Council in Warsaw. A group of uniformed men got out […]