Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Sept. 28, 1943

Lowell gets a haircut; the last of Luxembourg's Jews are deported by Nazis

Lowell got a sixty-cent haircut today but made no other notes except money spent on rides and eats.

It was a whole other story in the tiny duchy of Luxembourg, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany, which the Nazis had occupied since May 1940. It was declared “Judenrein” (cleansed of Jews) by Hitler’s government, meaning the last of the Jewish people there had been sent to their deaths.

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