Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: October 8 Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] 1941 The Secret Field Police and Major Franz Lechthaler's 11th. Reserve Police Battalion shot 641 people near Uzlany-Rudensk. Victims were described as "a Red Army man, a politruk (political officer of the Red Army), 9 partisans, and 630 suspicious elements, Communists and Jews." (Hillberg, Perpetrators, 63) 1943 All remaining Jews -- 816 individuals -- in the Liepaja ghetto in Latvia are transferred to the Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga. (USHMM, 1993, p. 48) Work Cited Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945. 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
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