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Subject: Holocaust Calendar: August 11
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August 11

1944

Four hundred thirty people, both Jews and non-Jews, are
deported from Lyon to Auschwitz, arriving there on August
22; 128 are gassed on arrival. One car of the train held
male resistance fighters being sent to the Natzweiler
Struthof concentration camp, while a second car contained
female resistance fighters being deported to Ravensbrueck
concentration camp. (USHMM 1994, 54)


                         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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