Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.magyar From: Ken McVayOrganization: The Nizkor Project http://www.nizkor.org/ Subject: Holocaust Calendar: July 31 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-ESG: http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?orgs/einsatzgruppen/minsk.jul42 1942 [Minsk] Byelorussian Generalkommissar Kube complains to Reichkommissar for Ostland, Gauleiter Lohse, that the Army Rear Zone Command "liquidated 10,000 Jews" without contacting him, and explains that his unit had planned to eliminate these Jews. He notes that 10,000 Jews still remain in Baranowitschi, but states that 9,000 "will be liquidated next month." 1944 The crematorium at Ebensee concentration camp, a Mauthausen subcamp, begins operation. (USHMM 1994, 52) The seventy-seventh convoy leaves Drancy for Auschwitz with approximately thirteen hundred Jewish deportees; it is the last transport from Drancy to Auschwitz. On arrival on August 3, 574 are registered for labor, and 726 are gassed. Among those killed are more than three hundred children under age eighteen from group homes in France. (See June 30) (Ibid.) The twenty-sixth transport leaves the transit camp of Malines in Belgium for Auschwitz with 563 deportees. (Ibid.) Fossoli transit camp in Italy is closed. (Ibid.) Monsignor Roncalli (later Pope John XXIII) and Ira Hirschmann (from the War Refugee Board) develop a plan to use baptismal certificates to save some Hungarian Jews, since the Hungarian decree of July 18 stipulated that converted Jews would not be deported. (Ibid.) 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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