Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: January 27 From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] January 27 1944 A resolution advocating full opportunity for colonization and reconstruction of Palestine as a "free and democratic Jewish commonwealth" is introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by James Wright (D-PA) and Ranulf Compton (R- CT). A similar resolution is introduced on February 1 in the Senate by Robert Wagner (D-NY) and Robert Taft (R-OH). After several hearings the House Foreign Affairs Committee votes on March 17, 1944, to defer action on the Wright-Compton resolution upon the recommendation of General George C. Marshall, who urges postponement for military reasons, and the Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, who notes that "further action on the Palestine resolutions at this time would be prejudicial to the successful prosecution of war." (USHMM, 1994. Pg. 26) The German Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service, SD) in Milan orders the arrest of sick Jews over the age of seventy. (Ibid., 27) A transport with 948 Jews from Westerbork transit camp in the occupied Netherlands arrives at Auschwitz-Birkenau; 689 people are gassed on arrival, and 190 men and 69 women survive selection on the ramp. (Ibid.) The German Foreign Office advises its representatives in eastern Europe (in regard to the treatment of foreign Jews in Italy and former Italian zones of occupied Greece) that the governments of Sweden, Finland, Romania, Switzerland, and Spain have all requested that any of their citizens be returned to them at once. (Ibid.) Work Cited USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Fifty Years Ago: Darkness Before Dawn: Days of Remembrance, April 3-10, 1994. Washington, D.C.: 1994
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