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 | | From: | kmcvay at nizkor.org.nospam | | Subject: | Holocaust Calendar: January 22 | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 05:05:01 -0000 |
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 | [Follow-ups set]
January 22
1944
The Fascist government of northern Italy (RSI) orders all Jews previously exempted from arrest to be taken to concentration camps. (USHMM, 1994. Pg. 26)
Executive Order 9417 establishes the War Refugee Board (WRB), which is mandated to take "all measures within [U.S.] power to rescue the victims of enemy oppression who are in imminent danger of death" and to provide "relief and assistance consistent with the successful prosecution of the war." President Roosevelt instructs the Departments of State, Treasury, and War to execute the plans, programs, and measures formulated by the WRB and to supply the WRB with information and assistance. The WRB is also empowered to accept the services or contributions of private persons and organizations. John Pehle is appointed executive director of the WRB. (Ibid.)
Seventy-seven homoual prisoners are among a transport of one thousand prisoners to the Dora concentration camp, a satellite camp of Buchenwald. Several homoual prisoners are later transferred to Ellrich and Harzungen subcamps. (Ibid.)
Work Cited 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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