Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: March 17 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] March 17 1636 Urban VIII issues Papal Bull "Cum allias piae," which obliges the synagogues of the Duchies of Ferarri and Urban to pay a tax of 10 ecus. (Wilensky, p. 329) 1942 The gas chambers at Belzec, an Aktion Reinhard death camp, became operational. (Goldhagen, 157) 1943 Fifteen hundred Jews are murdered in the labor camp that had replaced the liquidated Lvov ghetto, and eight hundred others are deported to Auschwitz. (USHMM 1993, p. 27) The Bulgarian parliament votes unanimously to oppose the deportation of Jews of prewar Bulgaria, including non- Bulgarian citizens residing in Bulgaria. The move is supported by King Boris and by the Papal Nuncio to Turkey, Angelo Roncalli, later Pope John XXIII. (Ibid.) 1944 Ninety-nine prisoners break out of Koldichevo camp, located about eleven miles from Baranovichi in Byelorussia; the camp holds about two thousand Soviet and Polish resistance and Jewish prisoners. Twenty-four prisoners are recaptured, but seventy-five reach partisan units. (USHMM 1994, 33) Work Cited Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 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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