Holocaust
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(96)1935
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1940
1941
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July
- 02
- The Ponary massacre beginsOn 2 July 1941 Einsatzkommando 9 reached Wilno. In early July executions of Jews began in the pits at Ponary, and they went on for three years.
- The Hungarians in StanisławówOn 2 July 1941 Hungarian troops entered Stanisławów, abandoned by the Red Army. In late July the Germans took over, and with them came the Holocaust.
August
September
October
- 01
- The camp at MajdanekFrom 1 October 1941 the SS was to build a camp near Lublin for 50,000 Soviet prisoners of war. So began Majdanek, where nearly 80,000 people died.
- The Yom Kippur actions in the Wilno GhettoOn Yom Kippur, 1 October 1941, Germans and Lithuanians seized thousands of Jews in both Wilno ghettos. By 21 October the whole small ghetto lay dead at Ponary.
- 24
- The Germans take KharkivOn 24 October 1941 the German Sixth Army took Kharkiv. Its tank and aircraft plants had gone to the Urals; famine, terror and the murder of Jews followed.
- The yellow permits actionOn 24 October 1941 an action began in the Wilno Ghetto against people without yellow work permits. Within a week several thousand of them were killed at Ponary.
November
December
- 01
- The Stanisławów GhettoFrom 1 December 1941 some 20,000 Jews of Stanisławów were forced to move into a ghetto, which the Germans sealed off from the rest of the town on 20 December.
- The Jäger ReportOn 1 December 1941 Karl Jäger tallied Einsatzkommando 3’s executions in Lithuania: 137,346 dead, almost all Jews. He declared the “Jewish problem” solved.
1942
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July
- 22
- Key eventThe Great Deportation in the Warsaw GhettoOn 22 July 1942 the Germans began deporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka. By 21 September they had murdered at least 254,000 people there.
- The Treblinka extermination campOn 22 July 1942 the first transport left Warsaw for Treblinka II. The next day the camp began operating; the Germans murdered some 800,000–900,000 Jews there.
August
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1943
January
February
March
April
- 19
- The Bermuda ConferenceOn 19 April 1943 British and American diplomats met in Bermuda to discuss refugees from Europe. They had ruled out almost every means of rescue in advance.
- Key eventThe Warsaw Ghetto Uprising beginsOn 19 April 1943, the eve of Passover, ŻOB and ŻZW fighters drove back the Germans entering the Warsaw Ghetto. They soon returned under Jürgen Stroop.
- The attack on the Twentieth Convoy from MechelenOn 19 April 1943 three young Belgians with one pistol stopped a train taking Jews to Auschwitz near Boortmeerbeek. More than 230 people escaped.