Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.polish From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Subject: Holocaust Calendar: February 23 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org/ 1937 "Himmler ordered the Criminal Police to rearrest about two thousand habitual criminal offenders and to incarcerate them in concentration camps. These were individuals who had not been sentenced anew; choosing the victims was entirely up to the Criminal Police's judgement..." (Friedlaender, 204) 1943 Thirty-nine Polish boys, aged thirteen to seventeen, from Zamosc arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The youths, who had been deemed unsuitable for Germanization, are murdered there with lethal phenol injections. (USHMM, 1993. Pg. 24) The Red Army's 16th Division, among whose members are a large number of Lithuanian Jews, goes on the attack in the Ukraine. The Germans retreat, but several hundred Jewish soldiers are killed in action. (Ibid.) 1944 Twenty-four men and twenty-three women survive selection on the ramp at Birkenau. They were from a transport of several hundred Jews deported from Narva concentration camp in Estonia who arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau the previous day. (USHMM, 1994. Pg. 29) Work Cited Friedlaender, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume I: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 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
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