Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: November 3 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] 1943 Police Battalion 101 participate in "Erntefest," the mass murder of the Jews of the Lublin ghetto, killing some 16,500 to 18,000 innocent Jews. Other German units massacred an estimated 6,000 to 10,000 Jewish prisoners at Trawniki, and nearby smaller camps. (Browning, 138-139) "Operation Harvest Festival," designed to eliminate the last surviving Jews of the Trawniki and Poniatowa labor camps and the Majdanek concentration camp, all in the Lubin region, is launched in response to the Sobibor revolt on October 14. At Trawniki 8,000 to 10,000 Jews, including women and children, are taken outside the camp and shot to death in huge pits. At Poniatowa a brief resistance to liquidation is crushed, and 15,000 Jewish prisoners are shot. The 200 members of a cleanup crew are killed for refusing to burn the bodies. At Majdanek 18,000 Jews from the camp and nearby labor camps in Lublin are shot. In all, 42,000 to 43,000 Jews are murdered in Operation Harvest Festival, the last major operation in the General Government, bringing Operation Reinhard to a close. (USHMM, 1993, p. 50) [For more information, see http://www.nizkor.org/faqs/reinhard] The last of the Jews from the Bialystok ghetto are killed at the Majdanek concentration camp and killing center. (Ibid.) Three hundred Jews from Genoa are deported to Auschwitz. (Ibid.) 1944 The Swiss legation in Berlin protests the deportations and announces that Switzerland is prepared to accept more Jews. In response to a question by National Councilor Kagi of Zurich, the Swiss Federal Council gives its assurances that no asylum will be granted to war criminals. (USHMM, 1994, p. 66) Work Cited Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. 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 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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