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March 21

1729

Pope Benoit XIII issues "Alias emanatunt," a Bull forbidding
Jews from selling new goods. (Wilensky, p. 331)

1943

The German Higher SS and Police Leader Hans Rauter, attached
to the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Netherlands,
tells a closed-door SS meeting that fifty-five thousand
Dutch Jews have been "shoved out" and that "the whole of
Jewry is due for expulsion to the east." (USHMM 1993, p. 28)

1944

The Associated Press in London reports that according to the
Polish Information Ministry more than one-half million
persons have been killed at Auschwitz. Most were killed
within ten to fifteen minutes of arrival. The ministry also
states that there are three crematoria at Auschwitz, capable
of disposing of ten thousand corpses daily. (USHMM 1994, 33)


                       Work Cited

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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