Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: April 14 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 14 1943 The White House turns down a request from American-Jewish leaders for a meeting with Roosevelt prior to the forthcoming inter-Allied conference on refugees in Bermuda. (USHMM 1993, p. 30) In mid-April, thirty-four part-Jewish German children are killed at the Hadamar State Sanitarium as part of Germany's "euthanasia" program, although none was physically or emotionally handicapped. The murders represent the extension of the killing process to part-Jews, a matter discussed at the Wannsee Conference of January 1942 but never before implemented. (Ibid.) 1944 First Allied air-reconnaissance photographs are taken of Auschwitz I, the town of Auschwitz (Oswiecim), the I.G. Farben factories, and the Auschwitz III complex (also known as Monowitz). (USHMM 1994, 38) The `Draft Convention on the Trial and Punishment of War Criminals' is issued. (Ibid.) Mass arrests of Jews in France are ordered. Incentives include the payment of rewards to informers. (Ibid.) SS Brigadier General Veesenmayer reports that Hungarian Prime Minister Sztojay promised that by the end of April at least 50,000 Hungarian Jews fit for work will be made available to the Germans, beginning with 5,000 Jews effective immediately and 5,000 more every three to four days until the number of 50,000 has been reached. An additional 50,000 Jews are to be made available in May, and the number of Jewish labor draftees inside Hungary is to be raised to 100,000 to 150,000. (Ibid.) A transport of five hundred prisoners is sent from Stutthof concentration camp to Neuengamme concentration camp. (Ibid.) 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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