Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,misc.legal From: Ken McVayOrganization: The Nizkor Project - http://www.nizkor.org Subject: Holocaust Calendar: September 30 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] September 30 1943 Three hundred thirty-five Russian POWs and Jewish prisoners from the Syretsk camp at Babi Yar, attached to Sonderkommando 1005, stage a revolt. Only fifteen succeed in escaping. (Members of Sonderkommando 1005 are used by the Germans to dig up and burn bodies in order to eradicate evidence of past murders.) (USHMM 1993, 46) King Christian X of Denmark sends the German minister an official note protesting the planned deportation of Denmark's Jews. (Ibid.) 1944 Martin Bormman issues instructions which culminate in the decree of 30 September 1944, signed by him. This decree took jurisdiction over all prisoners of war out of the hands of the OKW, handed them over to the control of Himmler, and provided that all prisoner of war camp commanders should be under the orders of the local SS Commanders (058-PS). Through this order, Himmler was enabled to proceed with his program of extermination of Prisoners of War. (NCA II, 903) The second transport from Theresienstadt within two days, this one carrying fifteen hundred Jewish prisoners, arrives in Auschwitz. Approximately one-quarter of the prisoners on the two successive transports are selected for labor; the rest are gassed on arrival. (USHMM, 1994, p. 61) Deprtations resume from Slovakia to Auschwitz. The first transport, mostly Jews, leaves Sered concentration camp neart Bratislava, and a second transport follows on October 3. The total number of deportees for both transports is 3,770. A total of 9,932 persons are deported to Auschwitz and other camps in eight transports from the end of September through December. (Ibid.) 1946 The International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg began handing down its judgments, which may now be found at http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?imt/tgmwc/judgment/ 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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