Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.magyar,soc.culture.polish,soc.culture.romanian Subject: Holocaust Calendar: October 23 Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] 1939 Eighteen Poles were executed in Koscian, a town of 10,000 inhabitants south of Poznan. One of the victims was Mieczyslaw Chlapowski, who was chairman of various agricultural organizations in Poznania and a cousin of the former Polish Ambassador to France. Mr. Chlapowski knelt down with his rosary, said a prayer, made the sign of the cross to the crowd, and cried out, just before being shot to death: "Poland has not yet perished! Long live France. Long live England!" (The Black Book of Poland, pp. 33-34) 1941 The reprisal action ordered by Romanian leader Antonescu on October 22nd resulted in the seizure and murder (by shooting) of 5,000 Jewish civilians. At about the same time, 19,000 Jews were assembled into a square near the port, a square surrounded by a wooden fence. They were sprayed with gasoline and burned alive. In the afternoon, gendarmerie and police rounded up over 20,000 persons, most of them Jews, and crowded them into the local jail.(Carmelly, 80) Bernard Lichtenberg, a Catholic priest in Berlin, is arrested after being denounced to the Gestapo for including non-Aryan Christians and Jews in his prayers, and interrogated for thirteen hours. He denied nothing but defended himself: He had prayed, not preached, and in his morning prayers he had included Hitler. He also offered to accompany the Jews who were being deported to the Lodz ghetto in order to minister to the Catholics among them....Indicted for endangering the public peace from the pulpit," he was sentenced to two years in prison. (Hilberg, Perpetrators, 268) 1942 Bernard Lichtenberg dies in Dachau, a year after his arrest. (Hilberg, Perpetrators, 268) After (Martin) Bormann succeeded Hess as the executive head of the Party, he was one of the prime movers in the campaign of total spoliation, starvation, and extermination of the Jews living under the rule of the Conspirators. A Bormann order announced a Ministry of Foods decree, issued at his instigation, depriving Jews of many essential food items, and of all special sickness and pregnancy rations, and ordering the confiscation of food parcels (3243-PS).(NCA II, 902) 1944 In response to a German request, the new Hungarian chief of state, Szalasi, agrees to the deportation of twenty-five thousand Hungarian Jews. The following day, SS Brigadier General Veesenmayer reports that once these deportees have been delivered, he will ask for more. (USHMM, 1994, p. 64) Work Cited Carmelly, Dr. Felicia. Shattered! 50 Years of Silence. Scarborough: Abbeyfield Publishers, 1997 Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. 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 Poland, Ministerstwo Informacji. The Black Book of Poland. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. 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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