Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,alt.revisionism From: Ken McVayOrganization: The Nizkor Project http://www.nizkor.org/ Subject: Holocaust Calendar: July 4 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] July 4 1939 The 10th Ordinance supplementing the Reich Citizenship Law is announced. It establishes the "National Association of Jews in Germany" [Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland]. (Ruerup, 118) 1943 Yitzhak Wittenberg, commander of the United Partisan Organization (FPO) in the Vilna ghetto, is apprehended by the Germans but freed by FPO fighters. The Gestapo demands his surrender, warning that otherwise the ghetto will be liquidated. The ghetto's `Judenrat' chairman, Jacob Gens, who believes compromise with the Germans will save a ghetto remnant, adds his voice to this demand. Wittenberg surrenders within hours and is executed by the Gestapo. (USHMM 1993, 38) 1944 Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy informs J.W. Pehle, head of the War Refugee Board, that the proposal to bomb rail lines at Auschwitz-Birkenau is rejected as "impractical." (USHMM 1994, 49) Work Cited Ruerup, Reinhard, Ed., trans. By Werner T. Angress. Topography of Terror. Berliner Festspiele GmbH, Berlin: 1987 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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