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Mel Snyder posted a condolence
Monday, December 12, 2022
To the family of Joseph Robert White:
I was not privileged to know Joseph in life. I just encountered his name in "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945," pubished by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum this morning.
The world, history and the Jewish people owe a great deal to the careful rsearch and documentation work done by him to illuminate the formerly darkest and almost forgotten [suppressed?] extent of the Holocaust. By his "bottom-up" work with survivors and contemporary document research, he has -- pehaps more than any researchers before or since -- provided humanity with an unprecedented perspective and appreciation of the depths of depravity and inhumanity of the Third Reich.
My great grandmother, two great aunts, and a great uncle and his family living in Kolomyya, Poland were exterminated by the Einsatzgruppen ("Holocaust by bullets" SS division). The executions began on October 11 and 12, 1941. Einsatzgruppen went to the synagogue and stopped the service, then set it on fire. Everyone was removed, men, women and children. They were all taken to the Scheparowce forest just outside of the town where over 3,000 were all shot into the pits which had been previously prepared by Jewish prisoners. In the following days, a total of 15,000 Jews from all over Galicia met the same fate in the same forest. In 1992, I visited Kolomyya to say kaddish in the forest.
I searched for Joseph's obituary to express my gratuitude to you all for what Joseph had done, and for the roles many of you must have played in the life of this remarkable man.
Mel Snyder, melsnyder@gmail.com
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Charflotte Guffey posted a condolence
Thursday, May 26, 2016
a heartfelt message of love for our beloved
nephew Joe. You were a big part of our live and we miss you terribly. all of our love Joe...forever
and ever. Aunt Charlotte and Uncle Tommy
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Nellie Stanley posted a condolence
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Time passes too quickly. I remember Jody as a pre-teen that I drove home from school in the afternoons after Eunice died. I'm sorry for the loss of a fine young man.