Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: November 2 Followup-To: alt.revisionism From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.no-spam Reply-To: kmcvay@nizkor.org.no-spam Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] November 2 1943 In the final liquidation of the Riga ghetto, two thousand Jews are sent to Auschwitz, and ten are left behind as a clearnup detail. (USHMM, 1993, p. 50) 1944 The Slovakian Ministry of National Defense erects a security camp for Gypsies at Dubnica n. Vahom. By December 23, 1944, the camp holds 729 prisoners, half of them children. During a typhus epidemic in late December, ill prisoners are shot and buried in mass graves. (USHMM, 1994, p. 66) The fifth transport of Slovakian Jews leaves Sered concentration camp, near Bratislava, for Auschwitz with 930 people. Since the first transport left on September 30, a total of 7,436 prisoners, mostly Jews, have been sent to Auschwitz. (Ibid.) Gassings at Auschwitz-Birkenau are halted, and the selections of incoming transports are suspended. (Ibid.) 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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