October 11: Trading Cigarettes for Jews For the second day in a row, on this date in 1943, Yanis Lipke, a former dock worker in the port of Riga, Latvia, saved three Jews from the Riga ghetto by offering Latvian fascist guards two packs of cigarettes for “some Yids to work in my kitchen garden.” Having witnessed extensive brutality against Jews in Riga, Lipke had purposefully joined a Luftwaffe civilian organization assigned with transporting slave labor from the ghetto. . . . jewishcurrents.org/october-11-cigarettes-for-jews-12454
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 20:13:35 +0000
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