Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.magyar Subject: Holocaust Calendar: September 2 Followup-To: alt.revisionism From: Ken McVayOrganization: The Nizkor Project - http://www.nizkor.org X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] 1941 Police Regiment South reports shooting 45 Jews. (Browning, 17) 1943 Final liquidation of the Tarnow ghetto in Poland begins. Although there is some Jewish resistance, eight thousand Jews are deported to Auschwitz, and two thousand to the Plaszow concentration camp in Cracow. (USHMM 1993, 43) Albert Speer, armaments minister and Hitler's favorite architect, is named head of Germany's Four-Year Plan and proceeds to increase German war production dramatically, greatly expanding the use of forced labor (from concentration camps and conquered populations) to accomplish this goal. (Ibid.) The Hungarian parliament adopts a law providing for expropriation of Jewish-owned property. (Ibid.) 1944 A transport from the Lodz ghetto arrives at Auschwitz; 393 men are selected for labor, and the remainder of the deportees are gassed. (USHMM 1994, 58) Work Cited Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: HarperCollins, 1992 USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Fifty Years Ago: Revolt Amid the Darkness: Days of Remembrance, April 18-25, 1993. Washington, D.C.: 1993 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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