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Subject: Holocaust Calendar: September 17
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September 17

1940

Goering signs the order to seize the property of Polish Jews. (NCA II, 450)

September 17-19

1943

Jews put up armed resistance to German liquidation of the
Lida ghetto in Byelorussia, but only a few manage to escape,
and most of the inhabitants are deported to Majdanek. (USHMM 1993, 44)

1944

Thirty-six hundred Jewish prisoners are evacuated from
Borski Rudnik labor camp in Yugoslavia and moved to
Crevenka. During the transfer approximately seven hundred
prisoners die. (USHMM 1994, 60)

                         Work Cited
                              
NCA II. Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for
Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Nazi Conspiracy and
Aggression, Volume II. Washington: United States Government
Printing Office, 1946

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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