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December 14-15

1943

The last inhabitants of the Cracow ghetto, a cleanup detail,
are executed in the nearby Plaszow concentration camp, and
the ghetto is dismantled. (USHMM, 1993, p. 52)

December 14

1944

A newly built gas chamber commences operations at
Ravensbrueck concentration camp. About six thousand women
prisoners will be killed at Ravensbrueck between December
1944 and April 14, 1945. (USHMM, 1994, p. 69)

From Bolzano-Gries transit camp, 150 prisoners are
transported to Flossenbuerg and Ravensbrueck concentration
camps; eighty of them are Jewish, and only four survive.  (Ibid.)

                       Work Cited

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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