Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.polish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: November 6 Followup-To: alt.revisionism From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Reply-To: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] November 6 1939 The faculty of the University of Cracow and of the Mining Academy, who had been invited by the German authorities to a meeting at the University Aula, showed up and were arrested by the Gestapo. After being beaten, 167 professors were first imprisoned in a Cracow prison for a few days, and then deported to Breslau. After 3 weeks in Breslau, they were then sent to the concentration camp at Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen. (The Black Book of Poland, 446-452) 1942 "[A] secret report submitted to the Reich Commissar for the East concerning the struggle against partisans in the East ... reports the execution of 1,274 partisan suspects and 8,350 Jews, and the deportation of 1,217 people." (NCA II, 274) November 6-8, 1943 SS squads round up several hundred Jews in Florence. (USHMM, 1993, p. 50) 1944 Ohrdruf concentration camp, located about thirteen kilometers south of Gotha, is opened as a subcamp of Buchenwald. Also known by the code name "S III," Ohrdruf holds nearly ten thousand prisoners transferred there from other concentration camps; they are used to build underground housing for the SS and senior government personnel. (USHMM, 1994, p. 66) Work Cited 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: 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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