Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.netherlands,soc.culture.spanish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: June 5 From: Ken McVayFollowup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] June 5 1943 A transport with nearly thirteen hundred Dutch-Jewish children is sent from Vught, via Westerbork, to Sobibor. (USHMM 1993, 36) 1944 Anti-Jewish laws are repealed in liberated Rome, and a ceremony is held at the main synagogue, attended by Jewish members of the Allied forces. (USHMM 1994, 45) Thirty-six French Gypsies and Spanish Republican political prisoners are transferred to the Gurs internment camp, near Pau in southern France. One hundred fifty-one non- Jewish female inmates from Brens internment camp in southwestern France are also transferred to Gurs. (USHMM 1994, 45) 1999 A 13-foot-high bronze monument to Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in World War II, was unveiled in the Stockholm suburb where he was born. (The San Diego Union-Tribune. "Stockholm unveils monument to Raoul Wallenberg," June 5, 1999, pg. A4) 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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