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From: Ken McVay 
Subject: Holocaust Calendar: August 15
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[Follow-ups set]

1940

The 1st transport of prisoners from Warsaw arrived at 
Auschwitz. The transport included 513 transfers from the 
Pawiak prison and 1,153 people taken prisoner during random
street roundups. The Pawiak prisoners included lawyers,
doctors, Polish Army officers, community activists, 
politicians and priests. (Czech et al, p. 123)

1941 

3rd. Company, Police Battalion 322 reported the shooting of one Pole and 
232 Jews "without incident" in Narevka-Mala. (Browning, 15)


                         Work Cited
                              
Czech, Danuta, Stanslaw Klodzinski, Aleksander Lasik, 
   Andrezej Strezecki, eds. "Auschwitz 1940 - 1945. Central 
   Issues in the History of the Camp, Volume V. 
   Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum: Oswiecim 2000.
                              
Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police
Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York:
HarperCollins, 1992



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