PERPETUA PAX: The Wannse Conference and the decision to exterminate the european jews.

segunda-feira, 20 de janeiro de 2014

The Wannse Conference and the decision to exterminate the european jews.

"On 20 January 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, the Head of the Reich Security Main Office, chaired a meeting of 15 high-ranking civil servants and SS officers in a villa at Großer Wannsee 56/58. The topic of the conference was technical, logistic and legal implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question", which was an euphemism for a planned mass extermination of Jews. (Protocol of Conference:http://www.ghwk.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf-wannsee/texte/protocol.pdf)

Exactly a year after this conference, on 20 January 1943, a transport of 748 Jews arrived to Auschwitz from the Westerbork camp in occupied Netherlands – 315 men and boys and 433 women and girls. After the selection 10 men and 25 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 713 people were killed in the gas chambers. On the same day a transport of around 2,000 Jews from the ghetto in Grodno arrived to the camp. After the selection 155 men and 101 women were registered. The remaining group, probably 1,744 people, were killed in the gas chambers." (https://www.facebook.com/auschwitzmemorial?fref=ts)

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