May 8, 1943
Mordechai Anielewicz Is Killed
On this day, May 8, 1943, German forces seized the ŻOB bunker at 18 Miła Street. Mordechai Anielewicz died there during the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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April 24, 1943
Rabbi Menachem Ziemba Is Killed
On this day, April 24, 1943, Rabbi Menachem Ziemba was shot in the Warsaw ghetto while fleeing a fire during the uprising.
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April 19, 1943
Bermuda Conference on Refugees Opens
On this day, April 19, 1943, British and American delegates opened a closed conference in Bermuda on wartime refugees. It produced no rescue program.
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Europe
April 19, 1943
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins
On this day, April 19, 1943, the first night of Passover, Jewish fighters in the Warsaw ghetto opened fire as German forces entered for the final deportation.
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April 19, 1943
Belgian Resistance Stops the Twentieth Convoy
On this day, April 19, 1943, three Belgian resistance fighters stopped a deportation train from Mechelen to Auschwitz, the only such attack on a convoy.
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February 18, 1943
Japan Designates a Restricted Zone in Shanghai
On this day, February 18, 1943, Japanese authorities in occupied Shanghai ordered stateless refugees, most of them Jews, into a designated area of Hongkou.
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Asia
February 9, 1943
Zofia Yamaika Dies Covering a Partisan Retreat
On this day, February 9, 1943, Zofia Yamaika was killed near Radom while covering her partisan unit’s retreat from a German attack.
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January 10, 1943
The Kopernik Camp in Mińsk Mazowiecki Is Liquidated
On 10 January 1943, German forces began liquidating the Kopernik labor camp in Mińsk Mazowiecki.
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Europe
November 16, 1942
Joseph Schmidt Dies
On this day, November 16, 1942, the tenor Joseph Schmidt died near the Girenbad internment camp in Switzerland. He was 38.
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July 22, 1942
Warsaw Ghetto Grossaktion Begins
On this day, July 22, 1942, German SS and police began mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka. About 265,000 Jews were deported by September.
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13–14 July 1942
Nazis Liquidate the Rivne Ghetto
On 13–14 July 1942, German SS and Ukrainian police cleared the remaining Rivne ghetto. About 5,000 Jews were taken to the forest near Kostopil and shot.
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Europe
June 7, 1942
Jews in Occupied France Must Wear the Yellow Star
On this day, June 7, 1942, a German decree took effect requiring Jews in occupied France, aged six and older, to wear a yellow star marked Juif.
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Europe