Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,alt.revisionism From: Ken McVayOrganization: The Nizkor Project http://www.nizkor.org/ Subject: Holocaust Calendar: July 8 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] July 8 1941 Order Police Battalion 322 raids the Jewish quarter in Bialystok, sealing off the streets and inspecting homes and businesses and looting them. Twenty two people, mostly Jews, were executed. (Breitman, 46) 1944 The Kovno ghetto is liquidated; two thousand Jews are killed, and four thousand Jews are deported to the Dachau and Stutthof concentration camps. (USHMM 1994, 49) American bombers hit Melk concentration camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen. Two hundred prisoners are killed and another two hundred seriously injured. Twenty-two guards are also killed. (Ibid.) The Archbishop of Canterbury makes a radio address to Hungarian Christians, asking them to save Jews if possible. (Ibid.) Work Cited Breitman, Richard. Official Secrets. New York: Hill & Wang, 1998 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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