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Subject: Holocaust Calendar: October 8
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1941
The Secret Field Police and Major Franz Lechthaler's 11th. Reserve
Police Battalion shot 641 people near Uzlany-Rudensk. Victims were
described as "a Red Army man, a politruk (political officer of the Red Army), 9
partisans, and 630 suspicious elements, Communists and Jews." (Hillberg,
Perpetrators, 63)
1943
All remaining Jews -- 816 individuals -- in the Liepaja
ghetto in Latvia are transferred to the Kaiserwald
concentration camp near Riga. (USHMM, 1993, p. 48)
Work Cited
Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish
Catastrophe 1933-1945. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
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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