Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish From: Ken McVaySubject: Holocaust Calendar: August 17 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] August 17 1938 The 2nd Ordinance pertaining to the execution of the "Law about Changes of Family Names and First Names forces Jewish citizens to adopt the mandatory first names of "Israel" and "Sara" respectively as of January 1, 1939. (Ruerup, 112) 1944 The last deportation transport from Drancy leaves for Buchenwald concentration camp with fifty-one deportees; four women and thirty-one men survive. (USHMM 1994, 55) The SS evacuates Drancy, leaving more than fifteen hundred prisoners in the hands of French gendarmerie. The Swedish Red Cross under Swedish Consul Nording assumes control of the Drancy transit camp. In effect, Drancy is liberated by the Red Cross. (Ibid.) August 17-18 1944 During the night 150 Gypsy prisoners escape from the Vichy internment camp for "nomads," located at Saliers. Saliers was opened as an internment camp for Gypsies in early October 1942 in the Camargue region of France. The escape is facilitated by the camp commandant, Albert Robini, who fears that the prisoners will be killed either deliberately by the retreating German military or accidently by advancing Allied troops. By late August the Saliers camp is abandoned; it will be officially closed on October 15 by the prefect of the Bouches-du-Rhone Department. (See August 25) (USHMM 1994, 55) Seventy-two French and foreign Jews are executed, together with thirty-seven non-Jewish resistance prisoners; the bodies are buried in a large pit at the Bron airfield near Lyon. (Ibid.) 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: Darkness Before Dawn: Days of Remembrance, April 3-10, 1994. Washington, D.C.: 1994
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