Welcome to my first Substack post!
The occasion is the publication of my late grandfather’s wartime diary. Arthur Kessler was both prisoner and physician in Transnistria, the “forgotten cemetery.” It’s in two parts:
An introduction to the “forgotten Holocaust” perpetrated by Hitler’s close ally: Romania under General Ion Antonescu.
The story of Vapniarca, a mass-poisoning and paralysis that is unique even in the macabre annals of the Holocaust.
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