Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish From: Ken McVayOrganization: The Nizkor Project - http://www.nizkor.org Subject: Holocaust Calendar: September 28 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] September 28 1943 After a frantic effort, the Jews of Rome deliver 50 kilograms of gold to the Gestapo, temporarily forestalling their deportation. (USHMM 1993, 45) Berlin's final order for deportation of the Danish-Jewish population reaches German officials in Copenhagen, who leak the news to various Danish officials. Danish Social Democratic leaders, churchmen, and others warn the Jewish community of the German plan. (Ibid.) Jewish males in the occupied Yugoslav city of Split are rounded up and taken to the Sajmiste concentration camp; five hundred are killed there. (Ibid.) After a lengthy delay, the State Department finally cables the American minister in Bern with the Treasury export license for the World Jewish Congress representatives; it is to be used in the planned rescue efforts in Romania and France. The U.S. envoy requests specific State Department clearance before delivering the license and notes that British officials in Switzerland oppose its issuance as possibly detremental to the war effort. (USHMM 1993, 46) At morning prayers Denmark's Chief Rabbi Marcus Melchior warns of German plans for an impending roundup and urges all Jews to hide or flee. He announces that because of the crisis, Jewish New Year services, scheduled for the next day, will not be held. In Stockholm the Swedish Foreign Ministry receives a report that approximately seventy-five hundred Danish Jews are to be arrested and then deported on the morning of October 1 or 2. (Ibid) Two thousand Amsterdam Jews are sent to the Westerbork transit camp. Only Jews in mixed marriages and those still in hiding now remain in the city. (Ibid.) September 28-29 1944 Einsatzkommando Zbv 29, a unit of Einsatzgruppe H, organizes a roundup of Jews in western Slovakia, capturing three thousand Jews in two days. Hospitals for the retarded are included in the action. All prisoners are sent to Sered concentration camp. (USHMM, 1994, p. 61) Work Cited 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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