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August 2, 1943
On this day, August 2, 1943, Jewish prisoners at the Treblinka killing center seized weapons and tried to break out. USHMM records that more than 300 escaped; German forces later recaptured and killed about two-thirds of them.
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Europe
August 1, 1943
On 1 August 1943, German forces began the final liquidation of the Będzin ghetto. Armed resistance slowed the clearance.
Holocaust · Ghettos · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
May 16, 1943
On this day, May 16, 1943, Jürgen Stroop reported that the Warsaw Jewish quarter was no more and had the Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street blown up.
Europe
May 8, 1943
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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Europe
April 24, 1943
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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Europe
April 19, 1943
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
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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Europe
April 19, 1943
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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Europe
February 18, 1943
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
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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Europe
January 10, 1943
On 10 January 1943, German forces began liquidating the Kopernik labor camp in Mińsk Mazowiecki.
Holocaust · Ghettos · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
November 16, 1942
On this day, November 16, 1942, the tenor Joseph Schmidt died near the Girenbad internment camp in Switzerland. He was 38.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism · Jews in Entertainment
Europe
