Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history Subject: Holocaust Calendar: March 15 Followup-To: alt.revisionism March 15 1933 Jewish businessman Otto Selz was dragged from his home, taken to nearby woods, and shot to death by Nazi thugs. (Friedlaender, 18) 1943 Deportation of the Jews of Salonika to Auschwitz begins with a transport of 2,800 men, women, and children. On arrival 2,191 are immediately sent to the gas chambers. (USHMM 1993, p. 27) Goebbels, according to an entry in his diary, tells Hitler it is essential to force Jews out of the Greater Reich. Hitler agrees. (USHMM 1993, p. 27) 1944 The Soviet army begins the liberation of Transnistria, reaching the Dniester River by March 20. (USHMM 1994, 32) Twenty men escape from Ponary extermination camp (near Vilna), where they had been assigned to destroy evidence of earlier mass killings. (Ibid.) Six Soviet officers, including some women, are shot in Stutthof concentration camp. (Ibid.) 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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