Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: November 30 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 30 1941 Between November 30 and December 9, over 25,000 Jews are murdered by the SS near Riga. (Goldhagen, 154) 1943 Mussolini's neo-Fascist government decrees that all Jews, without exception, are to be arrested and sent to Italian concentration camps. All of their property, including liquid assets and real estate, is to be confiscated immediately "for the benefit of the indigent refugees from enemy air attacks." (USHMM, 1993, p. 51) 1944 The first war-crimes trial against the commandant and guards at Majdanek begins before a Polish tribunal in Lublin. Five defendants are hanged in a public square in Lublin after sentencing on December 2. (USHMM, 1994, p. 68) 1995 A Swiss court acquitted Paul Grueninger of all charges stemming from his work in saving Jews from certain death during WWII. Grueninger was suspended from his job as the Police Commandant of the Saint Gall canton on the Austrian border in 1941. He had saved countless Jews from the Nazi murder machine by altering their papers and permitting them to enter Switzerland. Subsequently charged with forging documents and abusing his authority, Grueninger was sentenced to loss of employment, a heavy fine, and forfeiture of all retirement and severance payments. He never found another suitable job, and was subjected to a smear campaign alleging that he demanded money or sexual favors in exchange for letting Jews into Switzerland. In 1971, the year of his death, he was recognized as a Righteous Person by Israel's Yad Vashem. (LeBor, 136-139) Work Cited Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 LeBor, Adam. Hitler's Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing Group, 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 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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