Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish From: Ken McVaySubject: Holocaust Calendar: August 20 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] August 20 1944 In reaction to local resistance activity near Lyon, the Germans massacre one hundred non-Jewish men, women, and children; the victims are shot and then burned with gasoline in the abandoned fort of Cote Laurette in St. Genis-Laval, a suburb of Lyon. (USHMM 1994, 55) 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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