Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish From: Ken McVaySubject: Holocaust Calendar: June 29 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] June 29 1944 Out of eleven hundred prisoners at Bergen-Belsen with valid entry certificates for Palestine, 221 Jews are allowed to leave the camp. After their luggage is weighed and inspected and they are given medical examinations, the prisoners travel on a regular passinger train through Germany, arriving in Vienna on the morning of July 1. They are joined in Vienna by sixty-one former prisoners from the internment and exchange camp at Vittel (France). The Vittel prisoners are vaccinated and their yellow stars are removed. On July 6 all continue their journey to Istanbul via Budapest, Belgrade, and Sofia. They arrive in Haifa at 5 P.M. on July 10. (USHMM 1994, 47-8) A transport of 2,502 Hungarian Jews arrives at Stutthof concentration camp from Auschwitz. (USHMM 1994, 48) 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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