Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: April 6 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] April 6 1944 SS First Lieutenant Klaus Barbie, commander of the Lyon Gestapo, leads an early morning raid, liquidating the home for Jewish children at Izieu-Ain, a remote, isolated village in the hills above the Rhone River valley in France. Forty- one chldren, ages three to thirteen, three older children, and their seven adult guardians are jailed on April 7 at Fort Monluc in Lyon and then transferred to Drancy. One week later most are deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and a few to Tallinn (Estonia). Only one teacher survives. (USHMM 1994, 36) The SS raids Jewish hospices in Florence; twenty-one aged men and women patients are imprisoned for two months and then deported via Fossoli to Auschwitz. (Ibid.) 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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