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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.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism
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.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism
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
July 22, 1942
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.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
13–14 July 1942
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.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
June 7, 1942
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.
Antisemitism · Holocaust · World War II
Europe
May 21, 1942
On this day, May 21, 1942, the eve of Shavuot, the first roundup of Jews in the Chełm ghetto began. The Aktion lasted through May 23.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
March 17, 1942
On this day, March 17, 1942, German authorities began mass deportations from the Lublin ghetto to the Bełżec killing center.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
February 12, 1942
On this day, February 12, 1942, British police shot Avraham Stern, founder of Lehi, in a Tel Aviv apartment. The circumstances of the shooting remain disputed.
Zionism · Israel · Holocaust · World War II
Europe
January 20, 1942
On this day, January 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich chaired a meeting at a villa on the Wannsee in Berlin to coordinate the already-decided mass murder of European Jews.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
December 27, 1941–January 7, 1942
From 27 December 1941 to 7 January 1942, the Kharkiv ghetto was emptied and its people were killed at Drobytsky Yar.
Holocaust · Ghettos · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
