Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: October 16 Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] October 16 1943 A Swedish official reports that 6,670 refugees, 90 to 95 percent of them Jewish, reached Sweden between October 4 and October 16. The rescue operation also included Danish underground leaders and fighters as well as forty Allied pilots who bailed out over Denmark. In all, the Germans are able to deport fewer than two hundred Danish Jews. (USHMM, 1993, p. 48) On a day that will become known as "Black Saturday," German police surround the ancient Jewish quarter in Rome and seize 1,259 people but release the children of mixed marriages. In anticipation of the German operation, many Jews had already fled and taken refuge outside Rome with Italian non-Jewish families or in Catholic institutions. The Jews arrested are sent to Auschwitz, where they are gassed on October 23. (Ibid.) 1944 [Hungary] Horthy is deposed, and the Germans form a new government with Ferencz Szalasi, head of the Arrow Cross Party, replacing him. (USHMM, 1994, p. 64) 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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