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1935


The Jewish Section of the Reich Institute for the History of
the New Germany celebrated a "festive opening."(Friedlaender, 192)

1943

A group of prisoners in Sonderkommando 1005 in the Janowska
camp within the Lvov city limits stage a revolt. Several
guards are killed, and some prisoners escape to the forests;
the rest are killed. The camp is liquidated the next day.  (USHMM, 1993, p. 51)

                              Work Cited

Friedlaender, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume I: The Years of
   Persecution, 1933-1939. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997

USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Fifty
   Years Ago: Revolt Amid the Darkness: Days of Remembrance,
   April 18-25, 1993. Washington, D.C.: 1993

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