Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Subject: Holocaust Calendar: February 24 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] 1942 The refugee ship SS Struma, home to 769 Rumanian Jews seeking refuge from Nazi Germany, which arrived in Istanbul on December 16, 1941, is "towed to the Black Sea and sunk, apparently by a torpedo fired mistakenly by a Soviet submarine. There were two survivors." (Hilberg, Perpetrators, 257) 1943 Hitler sends a message to the Nazi Party's anniversary celebration declaring that the war "will not end...in the destruction of Aryan humanity but in the liquidation of the Jews in Europe." (USHMM, 1993. Pg. 24) One hundred fifty-eight members of the small Norwegian- Jewish community are deported via Berlin to Auschwitz, where approximately 120 of them are immediately sent to the gas chamber. (Ibid.) 1944 Two hundred prisoners, half of those assigned to the Sonderkommando in the Birkenau crematoria, are transferred to Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, arriving there on February 26. All are shot in retaliation for the attempted escape of five members of the Sonderkommando. (USHMM, 1994. Pg. 29) One hundred nineteen Soviet prisoners of war are transferred from Lambinowice to Auschwitz. (Ibid.) Work Cited Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. 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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