Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: March 31 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 31 1944 The Hungarian decree (No. 1.240/1944) "Concerning the Marking of Jews for Purposes of Their Differentiation" is published in Budapesti Kozlony: Hivatalos Lap (The gazette of Budapest: Official journal). Other decrees require travel restrictions, expropriation of bicycles and cars, a night curfew, and confiscation of telephones; in general, they exclude Jews from economic life in Hungary. (USHMM 1994, 34-35) The construction office at Auschwitz renames the prisoner-of-war camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, previously known as KGL (Kriegsgefangenenlager), as Lager II Birkenau. At the same time, the Political Department at Auschwitz I reviews all prisoner records; those prisoners designated "SB" (Sonerbehandlung, or special treatment) and "GU" (gesonderte Unterbringung, or separated housing) are driven to the crematoria, where they are killed. (USHMM 1994, 35) German Minister Jenke reports to the Foreign Office from Ankara about negotiations with the Red Cross regarding the emigration of about fifteen hundred Romanian Jews to Palestine, for which Turkey has made a ship available. The Turkish foreign minister requests German agreement and recommendations concerning a place of embarkation along the Black Sea. The German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop subsequently informs the Turks that the venture is not possible because of the risk of espionage and for naval strategic reasons. (Ibid.) Also in March, 1944 The Germans promulgate a new law in France, punishing anyone who helps the resistance (maquisards) with death... "Night and Fog" (NN) prisoners, suspected members of the anti-Nazi resistance in occupied western Europe, are transferred to the Esterwegen concentration camp, one of the so-called Moor camps located near Oldenburg, which had originally been opened for German political prisoners in August 1933....A decision is made to stop construction of Birkenau compound BIII, also known as "Mixiko," so that prisoners can be reassigned to Auschwitz subcamps for forced labor in the armaments industry.... The Norwegian government-in-exile in London calls on Norwegian men to boycott the German labor service. Most eligible men either hide or escape to Sweden.... A Swiss police directive of Decembere 29, 1942, requiring that "in every case, care must be taken to see that refugees who must be turned back receive no opportunity to communicate directly or indirectly with anyone" remains in force, but is now to be interpreted "leniently." ...The remaining Jews of Cracow are taken to Plaszow concentration camp. In Cracow, Oscar Schindler protects five hundred Jews as workers in his kitchen-utensil factory....Eichmann's representative in Italy, Friedrich Bosshammer, launches a campaign against ill and infirm Jews. Invalids and Jews of mixed parentage in Bologna are arrested and sent to Fossoli transit camp. (USHMM 1994, 35) Work Cited 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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