Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: November 9 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 9-10 1938 Germans in cities, towns, and villages across the country were awakened to the sounds of shattering glass, the light and smell of burning synagogues, and the cries of agony emitted by Jews whom their countrymen were beating to a pulp. The magnitude of the violence and destruction ... is reflected in the statistics. Approximately 100 Jews were murdered, while thirty thousand more were hauled off to concentration camps. Hundreds of synagogues were burned to the ground, and the storefront glass was shattered at about 7,5000 Jewish stores and businesses, hence the appellation `Kristallnacht.' (Goldhagen, 99-100) This pogrom against the Jewish population throughout Germany results in the arrest of over 26,000 male Jews. (Ruerup, 112) 1943 Resolutions are introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives urging President Roosevelt to create a commission of experts to work to save the remaining Jews of Europe. (USHMM, 1993, p. 50) 1944 The Central Office for Reich Security (RSHA) informs the Foreign Ministry that as part of SS efforts to obtain weapons from neutral and enemy countries, another thousand Hungarian Jews are to be sent to Switzerland as soon as transport can be made available. "Higher authority" has determined that no written notification will be made. (See October 5). (USHMM, 1994, p. 67) Work Cited Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 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: 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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