Tag: Concentration camp
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The Poisonous Pulse of Vapniarka: Grasspea, Lathyrism, and the Holocaust’s Forgotten Horror
During the Second World War, amidst the atrocities of the Holocaust, a little-remembered but harrowing chapter unfolded in the Vapniarka concentration camp in Transnistria. Here, under the command of Colonel Ioan Murgescu, over 1,000 Jewish detainees were subjected to a cruel experiment in survival: they were fed almost exclusively on Lathyrus sativus, or grass pea, a…
