Major Crimes and True Crime

the  Dnepropetrovsk maniacs  in June and July of 2007. Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuk, two Ukrainians, were just nineteen years old when they went on a rampage, murdering, robbing and torturing people with knives, their fists and hammers, beating to death their victims and often videotaping the killings, posting them on the internet proudly. Their actions took the lives of 21 innocent people. Many of the victims were hit numerous times with various blunt objects, to the point where their heads and skulls were rendered entirely unrecognizable. At various points during their videotaped murders, the two psychopathic teenagers proceeded to flash Nazi salutes, arms raised, faces unsmiling, for maximum shock value. You know those edgy 4chan kids making fun of Hitler, Nazi’s and killing ‘undesirables’? Well these guys are like that, but with real-world homicidal inclinations they lived out. Some of the victims had their eyes gouged out. Almost all of them were tortured, often over...

"l cannot go on living; my strength is exhausted. How long are we going to be kept here to witness all this?" Teenager Miriam Wattenberg helplessly observed as Some of the worst events in the WarsaW ghetto unfolded. She recorded the starvation, disease, and death surrounding her. In July 1942, the Germans began the mass deportation of Jews to the Treblinka killing center in what became known as the "Great Action." Miriam dOcumented the beginning of the deportations: .l 53% "The whole ghetto is drowning in blood. We can smell jt." 22 July Miriam and her family were lucky. They survived and eventually made it to safety in the United States. Most of Warsaw's Jews were trapped in German-occupied Europe, including those rounded up during the "Great Action." In just two moths, the Nazis deported some 265,000 people from the ghetto to their deaths.  Continue reading

A shocking slap-the last desperate act of a mother-may have saved Rachel Jedinak's life. While living in Paris, eight-year-old Rachel, her sister, and her mother were arrested by French police during a roundup ordered by German officials. Over two days in July 1942, police carried out the largest mass arrest of Jews in France during the Holocaust. The roundup affected some 13,000 Jewish men, women, and children. Crowded together in a holding area, Rachel's mother saw a chance for her girls to escape. She ordered them to leave through an exit without her. 4 .l ll 49% When Rachel refused, her mother slapped her. The girls fled while the police looked the other way. Rachel and her sister survived the Holocaust, but their mother did not.  Continue reading

Mother and six children held in underground room for 24 years see outside world for first time – the shocking Josef Fritzl case Held captive in basement dungeon for 24 years When the public found that Josef Fritzl had held a woman, his daughter, and three of her children captive in a rat-infested basement dungeon for 24 years, the act seemed unspeakable, as if a real-life boogey man had stepped from the pages of a horror novel into their reality. The four-day trail of Josef exposed a web of horror, a series of events that surpassed the worst snuff film or penny dreadful, events that would cause permanent physical and emotional damage to the captives and send one person to prison for life. Elisabeth flees from Josef Fritzl’s abuse was born on April 9, 1934, in Amstetten, Austria, a small town of 14,000 located halfway between Vienna and Salzburg. At the age of twenty-one, he married 17-year-old Rosemarie and together they had seven children: two sons and five daughters. Elisabeth Fritzl...

Menashe was only 5 when he was sadly murdered at Auschwitz Death Camp in 1943. were born in the city of Cluj, Romania on May 20, 1934. The twins were vacationing with  their grandparents in Transylvania when German troops arrived in 1944. The grandparents  tried to send the children back to their mother, Bella, in Cluj, but they were not permitted to  travel. The police rounded up the Jews and took them to the Cehei ghetto, a former brickyard, where  Eva Mozes Kor and her family were also deported. Menashe and Leah spent their tenth birthday  in the ghetto, their grandmother giving them each a slice of bread as their gift. On the selection platform at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the grandmother heard the guards shrieking,  “Twins! Twins!” and naively thought that Bella was there and had instructed the guards to search for her children. For that reason the grandmother pushed Menashe and Leah out of the  line leading to the gas chamber and said, “You are going t...