Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.polish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: November 7 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 7 1938 In Paris, German Embassy Councillor vom Rath is assassinated by Herschel Grynspan, whose parents were among Polish Jews expelled from Germany on October 28. (Ruerup, 112) 1939 In Koscian, a town south of Poznan, the Germans shot forty-two Poles in the face and left them in a ditch filled with lime. The victims included some high school students. (The Black Book of Poland, p. 35) November 7-8 1941 21,000 Jews from Rovno hare murdered by the SS. (Goldhagen, 154) 1944 Hannah Szene is executed by Nyilas (Arrow Cross) Hungarian police in a Budapest prison. (See March 13 and June 9) (USHMM, 1994, p. 66) General Dwight D. Eisenhower issues a statement telling the Germans not to harm prisoners in concentration camps and promising punishment for anyone mistreating prisoners. (Ibid.) Work Cited Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 Poland, Ministerstwo Informacji. The Black Book of Poland. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. Ruerup, Reinhard, Ed., trans. By Werner T. Angress. Topography of Terror. Berlliner Festspiele GmbH, Berlin: 1987 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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