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January 19

1567

Pius V issues Bull "Cum nos nuper," which forbids Jews from
owning real estate. (Wilensky, p. 328)

1943

Gerhart Riegner, the World Jewish Congress (WJC)
representative in Geneva, in a cable to the WJC leaders in
the United States and Britain, dispatched via the American
legation in Bern, reports that 6,000 Jews are being killed
daily at a single location in Poland, that Vienna has been
virtually emptied of Jews, and that 60,000 of the 130,000
Romanian Jews deported to the Transnistria region in the
occupied Ukraine in 1941 have since perished. (USHMM, 1993.  Pg. 20)

1944

From Compiegne concentration camp in France, 1,940 French
and Italian prisoners arrive at Buchenwald concentration
camp. The group includes the first Italian Communist
prisoners to be brought to Buchenwald. (USHMM, 1994. Pg. 25)

1945

The Lodz ghetto is liberated by the Red Army; about 800
inmates (of an estimated 164,000) survived. (LeBor, 21)


                         Work Cited

LeBor, Adam. Hitler's Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss
   Neutrality During the Holocaust. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing Group, 1997.

USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Fifty
   Years Ago: Revolt Amid the Darkness: Days of Remembrance,
   April 18-25, 1993. Washington, D.C.: 1993
                              
USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Fifty
   Years Ago: Darkness Before Dawn: Days of Remembrance, April
   3-10, 1994. Washington, D.C.: 1994

Wilensky, Gabriel.  Six Million Crucifixions: How Christian
   Teachings about Jews Paved the Road to the Holocaust. San
   Diego, California: QWERTY Publisheers, 2010


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