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 | | From: | kmcvay at nizkor.org.nospam | | Subject: | Holocaust Calendar: January 24 | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:05:01 -0000 |
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January 24
1940
Three Jews in the village of Zelech'ow were stripped bare in 25 degree weather. After the Germans poured water over them, they were ordered to run around a telephone pole for half an hour. (The Black Book of Poland, 227)
1944
The Lodz Gestapo office informs the Auschwitz camp commandant that hereafter all documents of prisoners killed there are to be destroyed immediately and that such papers and personal effects are not to be sent back to the families of the deceased. The families are to be informed that personal effects cannot be returned. (USHMM, 1994. Pg. 26)
Work Cited
Poland, Ministerstwo Informacji [Ministry of Information]. The Black Book of Poland. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942.
USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Fifty Years Ago: Darkness Before Dawn: Days of Remembrance, April 3-10, 1994. Washington, D.C.: 1994 -- "...the antisemite is immune to refutation from either facts or logic. An antisemite has chosen to live in hatred, without regard to either facts or logic." (Matas, David. Bloody Speech, p. 37) The Nizkor Project: http://www.nizkor.org
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