Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: March 24 Followup-To: alt.revisionism From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Reply-To: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] March 24 1943 The [United States] State Department is informed in a cable from the World Jewish Congress office in Geneva that "massacres [are] now reaching catastrophic climax particularly in Poland"; it urges Allied action to exchange European Jews for Germans held in Allied countries. (USHMM 1993, p. 28) 1944 At the Ardeatine caves near Rome, 335 hostages, seventy of them Jews, are massacred in reprisal for an attack on March 23 on a German police unit as they marched through the Via Rasella in Rome; thirty-three German policemen were killed. One of the massacred victims, Aldo Finzi, a convert to Christianity, was a high-ranking official in the Interior Ministry during the early days of the Fascist regime. (USHMM 1994, 33) President Franklin D. Roosevelt warns Hungarian authorities not to persecute Jews and condemns the Nazis and their allies for heinous crimes. According to the New York Times of March 25, 1944, Roosevelt states: "In one of the blackest crimes of all history...the wholesale systematic murder of the Jews of Europe goes on unabated every hour. As a result of the events of the last few days, hundreds of thousands of Jews, who while living under persecution have at least found a haven from death in Hungary and the Balkans, are now threatened with annihilation as Hitler's forces descend more heavily upon these lands. That these innocent people, who have already survived a decade of Hitler's fury, should perish on the very eve of triumph over the barbarism which their persecution symbolizes, would be a major tragedy." FDR warns Hungary against collaboration with Germany, declaring that "none who participate in these acts of savagery shall go unpunished." (Ibid., 33-34) March 24-25, 1944 Greek, stateless, and foreign Jews in occupied Greece (reportedly 4,700 persons, 550 of them in the Athens area) are arrested by the German police and Security Service (SD). Among those arrested are 132 Spaniards, 40 Turks, 19 Portugese, 2 Hungarians, and other foreign Jews. After repeated representations by the Turkish consulate general, the SD aggress to release all Turkish Jews for transportation to Turkey. All Jews with the exception of the Turks and those from enemy countries are deported on april 2. Higher SS and Police Leader Major General Juergen Stroop, who was responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, is in charge of the deportation. The Spanish and Portugese Jews are diverted from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen, arriving there on April 16. (USHMM 1994, 34) 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
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