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"Deliver those who are being taken away to death, and those who are staggering to slaughter, O hold them back!
If you say, 'See, we did not know this'
Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts? And does He not know it who keeps your soul?
And will He not render to man according to his work?"
| Proverbs 24:11-12 |
– subject to continuing refinement –
Monday 11: A telegram intercepted by British Intelligence sent by SS Sturmbannführer HERMANN HöFLE to SS Obersturmbannführer ADOLF EICHMANN in Berlin, and to SS Oberststurmbannführer HEIM, in Cracow, giving arrivals in the prior fortnight, and arrivals for the year, for the camps of Einsatz Reinhardt (later more commonly called Aktion Reinhard) to December 31, 1942. The total for these four camps alone is 1,274,166 persons exterminated.
| 1,274,166 persons exterminated in four camps |
| Serious differences between Germans and Italians on the Jewish Question. |
Wednesday 13: German Minister of Foreign Affairs, JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP, telegrams the German Embassy in Rome –
"There are considerable differences between the official Italian and German positions on how to handle the Jewish question. Whereas we have recognised Jewry as a disease that threatens to corrupt the body politic and hinder the reconstruction of Europe, the Italian government tends to think of Jews as individuals and reserves preferential treatment for individual Jews or certain groups of Jews. The Italian government also protects Jews abroad if they hold Italian citizenship, especially if they are influential in the economy." |
Warsaw – German Police Battalion 53 slaughters tens of thousands of Jews.
In the Anfa Hotel, Casablanca, Morocco – The Casablanca Conference (codenamed SYMBOL) is held to plan the European strategy of the Allies during their war with Germany. US President FD ROOSEVELT refers at the Conference to –
"the understandable complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews in Germany, namely that while they represented a small part of a population, over 50 per cent of the lawyers (16.3%), doctors (10.9%), schoolteachers (2.6%), college professors (0.5%) in Germany were Jews" (Actual figures in brackets). |
The conference's Casablanca Declaration calls for the Allies to seek the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers; Allied aid to the Soviet Union; the invasion of Sicily and Italy; and the recognition of joint leadership of the Free French by de Gaulle and Giraud.
Captain WOLFGANG HOFFMANN, commander of one of the three companies of Police Battalion 101 (mainly Evangelical Protestant) and directly responsible for the massacre of many thousands of Jewish families, writes in indignant defiance to his superiors (and contradiction of his battalion commander) a refusal to sign a general pledge not to steal from Poles, as being an unwarranted request for a German and and officer. (Utterly blind to the extreme moral hypocrisy of their situation!).
| Note Evangelical Protestant hypocrisy demonstrated January 30, 1943. |
8-9: In Slutsk – German Police Battalion 22 slaughters 3,000 Jews in two days.
| "We at this moment have upon us a tremendous responsibility... We stand at the bar of history, of humanity, and of God" |
27: In Washington, USA – In answer to a request from Rabbi STEPHEN WISE of New York to British Foreign Secretary ANTHONY EDEN to support an Anglo-American plea to Germany to let the Jews leave occupied Europe, EDEN responds –
| "fantastically impossible" |
At the time a senior official minutes – 'A disproportionate amount of time of this office is wasted in dealing with these wailing Jews'.
the USA – All patriotic groups, from the American Legion to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, call for a total ban on (Jewish) immigration. (Johnson 1996:37).
Chelmno extermination camp staff celebrate a 'job well done' (145,000 Jews dead) with a party (Abschlussfeier) at the camp's closure. (Chelmno is re-opened in 1944 for further killing).
12-29: In Hamilton, Bermuda – a conference is held between the United Kingdom and the United States. Discussions include the question of Jewish refugees who had been liberated by Allied forces and those who still remained Nazi-occupied Europe, but the only agreement is that the war must be won against the Nazis.
12-29: In Hamilton, Bermuda – a conference is held between the United Kingdom and the United States. Discussions include the question of Jewish refugees who had been liberated by Allied forces and those who still remained Nazi-occupied Europe, but the only agreement is that the war must be won against the Nazis.
SZMUL ZYGIELBOJM, a member of the Jewish advisory body to the Polish government-in-exile, commits suicide in protest.
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 Gypsy children in Auschwitz |
In the Warsaw ghetto, Poland – German Police Battalion 41 slaughters tens of thousands of Jews.The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
(Yiddish: אױפֿשטאַנד אין װאַרשעװער געטאָ; Polish: Powstanie w getcie warszawskim; German: Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto)
It was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp.
The most significant portion of the rebellion took place from 19 April, and ended when the poorly armed and supplied resistance was crushed by the Germans, who officially finished their operation to liquidate the Ghetto on 16 May.
It was the largest single revolt by the Jews during the Holocaust and was the first mass uprising in Nazi occupied Europe.
It was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp.
The most significant portion of the rebellion took place from 19 April, and ended when the poorly armed and supplied resistance was crushed by the Germans, who officially finished their operation to liquidate the Ghetto on 16 May.
It was the largest single revolt by the Jews during the Holocaust and was the first mass uprising in Nazi occupied Europe.
13: HITLER declares, with reference to Romania's Jews–
"Therefore, in contrast to Marshal Antonescu, the Fuhrer took the view that one must proceed against the Jews, the more radically the better. He... would rather burn all his bridges behind him because the Jewish hatred is so enormously great anyway. In Germany, as a consequence of the clearing up of the Jewish question, one had a united people without opposition at one's disposal... however, once the way had been embarked on, there was no turning back".
(According to the meeting's Minutes). |
16-17: HITLER meets HORTHY of Hungary to insist that Hungarian Jews should be deported for extermination in the same way as the Hungarian government had done with German Jews living in Hungary. HORTHY refuses and Hungary is invaded by Germany.
Minutes of the meeting of 17 April record VON RIBBENTROP as saying –
"On Horthy's retort, what should he do with the Jews then, after he had taken pretty well all means of living from them – he surely couldn't beat them to death – the Reich Foreign Minister replied that the Jews must either be annihilated or taken to concentration camps. There was no other way". |
HITLER later says –
"If the Jews [in Poland] didn't want to work, they were shot. If they couldn't work, they had to perish. They had to be treated like tuberculosis bacilli, from which a healthy body can be infected. That was not cruel; if one remembered that even innocent natural creatures like hares and deer had to be killed so that no harm was caused. Why should one spare the beasts who wanted to bring us bolshevism? Nations who did not rid themselves of Jews perished". |
(According to the same meeting's Minutes).
| Final Warsaw Ghetto Extermination |
19: In Warsaw – Germans decide to kill the remaining 60,000 ghetto Jews on site.
3: In London, UK – Britain's MI5 discovers a Nazi plan to assassinate the Prime Minister with high explosives disguised as bars of luxury chocolate ("pound slabs of chocolate which are made of steel with a very thin covering of real chocolate").
In Copenhagen – German Police Battalion 65 arrives to carry out roundups of Jews for the death camps.
In Warsaw – German Police Reserve Company Cologne slaughters thousands of Jews.
In Warsaw – German Police Reserve Company Cologne slaughters thousands of Jews.
1, AM: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight 777 on its way from Lisbon, Portugal to Bristol, UK, is attacked by a German fighter plane. The civilian aircraft crashes into the sea, along with its 13 passengers and four crew members, all of whom perish. Among the casualties is WILFRID ISRAEL of whom Albert Einstein, whom he knew in Berlin, said of him:
| "Never in my life have I come in contact with a being so noble, so strong and as selfless as he was – in very truth a living work of art." |
In France – anti-Semitic BRASILLACH begins printing the names and addresses of Jews and others opposed to Germany in his paper Je Suis Partout.
16-20: In Bialystok – German Police Battalions 251, 255, and 256 slaughter 25,000 to 30,000 Jews each.
| Jewish Zionist justification of terror against civilians |
Palestine – Jewish leader YITZHAK SHAMIR writes an article entitled "Terror" for the journal He Khazit (The Front, a LeHI underground newspaper) of the Jewish terror organization (LHI, acronym for Lohamei Herut Israel, "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel", לח"י – לוחמי חרות ישראל 'LeHI', known by the British as 'Stern Gang'), in which he proposes to –
"dismiss all the 'phobia' and babble against terror with simple, obvious arguments." "Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war," he writes, and "We are very far from any moral hesitations when concerned with the national struggle." |
"First and foremost, terror [against civilians] is for us a part of the political war appropriate for the circumstances of today, and its task is a major one: it demonstrates in the clearest language, heard throughout the world including by our unfortunate brethren outside the gates of this country, our war against the occupier [Britain]."
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(See 1980)
Greek island of Zakynthos – The Nazi instruction to hand in a list of all Jews brings Bishop CHRYSOSTOMOS and their Mayor with a list containing only two names – their own. The Jews of Zakynthos are therefore saved.
| Heroism! |
12: At Campo Imperatore Hotel, Italy – Italian dictator MUSSOLINI, being held by order of Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III, is rescued by SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) in the German Waffen-SS OTTO SKORZENY.
(In 1962, Skorzeny is recruited by Israel's secret-service Mossad to help locate the German scientists developing missiles for Egypt).
(In 1962, Skorzeny is recruited by Israel's secret-service Mossad to help locate the German scientists developing missiles for Egypt).
24: HIMMLER sends instructions to HERBERT KAPPLER (SS) in Rome that all Jews, irrespective of age or sex, are to be rounded up and sent to Germany. However, the German ambassador in Rome, whose Italian mistress is hiding a family of Jews in her home with his approval, does not cooperate, and military commander Field Marshall KESSELRING claims that he needs the Jews as labour to build fortifications.
In Rome – At HITLER's direct intervention, 12,000 Italian Jews are sent to Auschwitz for extermination.
Memorial in Paris cemetery today
In Trieste, Italy – The city is placed under Nazi administration and mass arrests of Jews begin for deportation to Auschwitz, Dachau and Mauthausen, in spite of protests from its Bishop.
Pope PIUS XII gives refuge to Jews at his summer residence, Castelgandolfo.
4: Int Posnan, Poland – HIMMLER speaks to SS officers
Pope PIUS XII gives refuge to Jews at his summer residence, Castelgandolfo.
4: Int Posnan, Poland – HIMMLER speaks to SS officers
"I also want to talk to you quite frankly about a very grave matter. We can talk about it quite openly among ourselves, but nevertheless we can never speak of it publicly. Just as we did not hesitate on 30 June 1934 to do our duty as we were bidden, and to stand comrades who had lapsed up against the wall and shoot them, so we have never spoken about it and will never speak of it. It was a natural assumption of tact – an assumption which, thank God, is inherent in us – that we never discussed it among ourselves, never spoke of it ... Most of you will know what it means to have a hundred or five hundred corpses lying together before you. To have been through this and – disregarding exceptional cases of human weakness – to have remained decent, that is what has made us tough. This is a glorious page in our history, one that has never been written and can never be written". |
"I do ask you to keep secret, to listen to what I am saying and never to speak about it, what I am saying in these circles. We came up against the question, what about the women and children, and I took the decision here too for a clear solution. I did not consider myself justified in liquidating just the men to leave alive the children to act as the avengers against our sons and grandchildren. There had to be taken the grave decision to have this people disappear from the face of the earth". |
to extermination
– Dr KURT BLOME, high-ranking Nazi scientist, works on bacteriological warfare, under the cover of cancer-research. He had been ordered to experiment with plague vaccines on concentration camp prisoners.
Germ-Warfare
development by
the United States
– After the war, American intervention saves Blome from the gallows. In return Blome agrees to provide information to the Americans about his experiments in Dachau and advice on the development of a germ warfare program. Two months after his Nuremberg court acquittal, Blome is transferred to the USA (see Operation Paperclip) and interviewed at Camp David, Maryland, about biological warfare.
In 1951, he is hired by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps to work on chemical warfare development. (His file neglects to mention Nuremberg).
In 1951, he is hired by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps to work on chemical warfare development. (His file neglects to mention Nuremberg).
| 1944 |
In Germany – In his New Year address, ADOLF HITLER speaks of God to the German nation, that –
"He is aware of the goal of our struggle" ..."[His] justice will continue to test us until He can pass judgment. Our duty is to ensure that we do not appear to be too weak in His eyes, but that we are given a merciful judgment that spells 'victory' and thus signifies life!" |
Hitler's New-Year-speech.
11: In Bordeaux, France – French police and gendarmerie round up Jews listed in the office of MAURICE PAPON for internment and deportation to Germany.
In France – PICASSO's friend MAX JACOB (Jewish Catholic) is arrested and sent to the Drancy camp where he later dies. Other artists appeal for his release but PICASSO is silent.
Italy – In their advance on Rome, Allied troops launch an attack on the German positions focussed around the Monte Cassino Abbey. They carpet bomb the Abbey for six-hours, totally destroying it, but the Allies also suffer a total of c.55,000 casualties during the siege (German casualties c.22,000), one-third of these being from so-called "friendly fire" incidents.
24, from 3.30PM: In the Ardeatine Caves, near Rome, Italy – German SS troops under SS officer HERBERT KAPPLER systematically massacre 335 Italian civilians (one 15-years-old), chosen at random, to avenge an attack by communist partisans the previous day on a German police unit in Rome's Via Rasella.
| Fosse Ardeatine massacre |
| Exposure of Auschwitz! |
In Poland – RUDOLF VRBA (born WALTER ROSEBERG in Topoľčany, Slovakia), with a friend ALFRÉD WETZLER (prisoner #29162), escape from the German Auschwitz concentration camp.
Thursday, 27: Their detailed information in 32 pages (the Vrba-Wetzler report) to Jewish officials in Slovakia, about the mass murders taking place at Auschwitz, is completed and eventually passed to the Allies. This is the first detailed information about the death camp to reach the Allies which is accepted as credible. However, although the Vrba-Wetzler report is made available to officials in Hungary and elsewhere before those deportations to Auschwitz begin, it is kept confidential by Zionist Jewish leader RUDOLF KASTNER and others for the sake of negotiations with the Nazis. VRBA later writes in 2002 –
Thursday, 27: Their detailed information in 32 pages (the Vrba-Wetzler report) to Jewish officials in Slovakia, about the mass murders taking place at Auschwitz, is completed and eventually passed to the Allies. This is the first detailed information about the death camp to reach the Allies which is accepted as credible. However, although the Vrba-Wetzler report is made available to officials in Hungary and elsewhere before those deportations to Auschwitz begin, it is kept confidential by Zionist Jewish leader RUDOLF KASTNER and others for the sake of negotiations with the Nazis. VRBA later writes in 2002 –
"It is my contention that a small group of informed people, by their silence, deprived others of the possibility or privilege of making their own decisions in the face of mortal danger" (I Escaped from Auschwitz, Barricade Books, p.419–20). |
Assassinated March 1957, in Israel by Zeev Eckstein on behalf of the ultranationalist right; the first political assassination in Israel. |
5: HIMMLER speaks to the generals of the Wehrmacht. According to the transcript of his speech, he said –
"The Jewish question has been solved within Germany itself and in general within the countries occupied by Germany. It was solved in an uncompromising fashion in accordance with the life and death struggle of our nation in which the existence of our blood is at stake. You can understand how difficult it was for me to carry out this soldierly order (soldatische Befehl) and which I carried out from obedience and from a sense of complete conviction". |
13: In Bordeaux, France – another convoy of deportees leaves for France's Drancy, concentration camp. About 80% are elderly Jews over seventy, who have been taken from hospitals and sanatoriums and retirement homes.
25: In Bordeaux, France – collaborator and antisemite, MAURICE PAPON, begins to associate himself with the French Resistance against German occupation in the light of military gains by the Allies.
26: In Germany – HITLER addresses senior officers of the Wehrmacht in the following terms –
25: In Bordeaux, France – collaborator and antisemite, MAURICE PAPON, begins to associate himself with the French Resistance against German occupation in the light of military gains by the Allies.
26: In Germany – HITLER addresses senior officers of the Wehrmacht in the following terms –
"By removing the Jew, I abolished in Germany the possibility to build up a revolutionary core or nucleus. One could naturally say to me: Yes, couldn't you have solved this more simply – or not simply since all other means would have been more complicated – but more humanely? My dear officers, we are engaged in a life or death struggle. If our opponents win in this struggle, then the German people would be extirpated". |
31: near Annemasse, France – French Resistance MARIANNE COHN (see below) is arrested by the German Gestapo with a group of twenty-eight Jewish children whom she was trying to rescue, and incarcerated at the Hotel Pax.
Despite intense torture, she does not speak.
Her Resistance Unit forms a plan to free her, but she refuses, fearing reprisals against the Jewish children.
Despite intense torture, she does not speak.
Her Resistance Unit forms a plan to free her, but she refuses, fearing reprisals against the Jewish children.
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Normandy, France
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| "Today, blood must flow". Words reportedly uttered by Heinz Barth, junior officer in the SS division 'Reich'. |
In 2013 Andreas Brendel, head of the central Nazi war crimes investigation unit in Dortmund, Germany, states –
"Barth's statement means that members of the unit knew what was going to happen on that day. That was one of the main things that encouraged me to reopen the investigation." |
10: In Oradour-sur-Glane, north-east of Bordeaux, France –
At 2PM SS troops (3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the "Der Führer" Regiment of the SS "Das Reich" Division) arrive and herd the population on to the town's main square.
Those who are too old or infirm are shot dead in their homes. The men are then separated from the women and children, with the latter being crammed into the village church, into which German troops then lob hand grenades and fire machine guns.
Those that aren't killed instantly die in the ensuing fire. A single woman survives.
The men, meanwhile, are crammed into nearby barns, shot at and then set on fire.
(There were but five survivors out of the whole village).
Those who are too old or infirm are shot dead in their homes. The men are then separated from the women and children, with the latter being crammed into the village church, into which German troops then lob hand grenades and fire machine guns.
Those that aren't killed instantly die in the ensuing fire. A single woman survives.
The men, meanwhile, are crammed into nearby barns, shot at and then set on fire.
(There were but five survivors out of the whole village).
In all, 642 people are massacred, including 240 women and 213 children.
An initial trial undertaken by the French in Bordeaux in 1953 involved charges against dozens of soldiers belonging to the German unit responsible. But ultimately, despite several guilty verdicts, most of the suspects are set free on the strength of a political amnesty. |
1: In Paris, France – ALOIS BRUNNER launches raids against the dozen Jewish (UGIF) children's centers in the Paris area.
7: In London, UK – Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL notes in his minutes on hearing of the killing of Hungarian Jews that it –
| "is probably the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world" |
and he accordingly instructs his Foreign Secretary ANTHONY EDEN to –
| "Get anything out of the Air Force you can and invoke me if necessary." |
Her poem was found later in her prison cell
| I WILL BETRAY | ||
| I will betray, but tomorrow, not today. Pull out my fingernails today. I won't betray. You don't know the limits of my courage. I do. You are five rough hands with rings. On your feet are shoes with spikes. I will betray tomorrow, not today. Tomorrow. I need the night to make up my mind. I need at least one night to renounce my friends. |
To give up bread and wine. To betray life. To die. I'll betray tomorrow, not today. The file is under the stone floor. The file is not for the cell door. The file is not for my executioner. The file is to slit my wrist. Today I have nothing more to say. Tomorrow I'll betray. |
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LIVES IN
INDIVIDUALS
8 night: In Annemasse, France – The Gestapo of Lyon sends a team to remove six prisoners, including MARIANNE COHN, and kill them by kicking them and hitting them with shovels. (The mayor of Annemasse saves the children).
In Auschwitz – the Germans begin burning documents.
In France – Hospital Chaplain, Pastor WALTER HÖCHSTÄDTER, secretly prints 1000 copies of his protest against anti-Semitism and courageously sends it through military mail to German soldiers at the front –
In France – Hospital Chaplain, Pastor WALTER HÖCHSTÄDTER, secretly prints 1000 copies of his protest against anti-Semitism and courageously sends it through military mail to German soldiers at the front –
| "Today, the blood of millions of slaughtered Jews, of men, women, and children, cries to heaven." (Pastor Höchstädter). |
| "We live in an age which is raging throughout with mad ideas and demons, no less than the Middle Ages. Our allegedly 'enlightened' age, instead of indulging in an orgy of crazed witch-hunting, feasts itself in an orgy of maniacal Jew-hatred. Today the Jew-hating madness, which had already raged frightfully in the Middle Ages, has entered upon its acute stage. This, the Church, the community of Jesus Christ, must acknowledge. If she does not do it, then she will have failed, just as she had failed then, during the time of the witch-hunts. Today, the blood of millions of slaughtered Jews, of men, women, and children, cries to heaven. The Church is not permitted to be silent. She is not permitted to say that the settlement of the Jewish Problem is a matter for the state, the right to perform this function having been granted to it by Romans 13. The Church is also not permitted to say that in our time just punishment is being carried out upon the Jews for their sins. ...There is no such thing as a moderate Christian antisemitism. Even when it is set forth seemingly convincingly by means of reasonable arguments (say, national ones) or even with scientific [read pseudo-scientific] arguments. The witch craze also was once scientifically justified by leading authorities of the theological, legal, and medical faculties. The battle against Jewry proceeds from the same muddy source from which the witch craze once proceeded. Contemporary mankind has not overcome its proclivity to look for a 'scapegoat.' Therefore it searches for all kinds of guilty parties – the Jews, the Freemasons and the supra-state powers. This is the background of the hymns of hate of our time." [Emphasis mine] |
This is where real Christianity counts!
13: In Lithuania – Between 4,000 and 5,000 residents of the Kovno Ghetto are transferred to concentration camps in Germany.
| Attempted Hitler assassination which badly backfires. |
Field Headquarters, East Prussia – CLAUS SCHENK GRAF von STAUFFENBERG, together with EWALD-HEINRICH von KLEIST, attempts to kill HITLER with a bomb, leading to the revenge killing of some 5,000 anti-Nazis.
The shock effect of the attack is enormous, as evidenced in many private records, and arch-loyalists replace people considered unreliable. The plot leads to a temporary strengthening of the Nazi regime, increasing Hitler's popularity with the German public. All resistance is ruled out as a result.
The shock effect of the attack is enormous, as evidenced in many private records, and arch-loyalists replace people considered unreliable. The plot leads to a temporary strengthening of the Nazi regime, increasing Hitler's popularity with the German public. All resistance is ruled out as a result.
Hungary – RAOUL WALLENBERG, together with fellow Swedish diplomat PER ANGER, issues 'protective passports' (German: Schutz-Pass) to Jews, which identify the bearers as Swedish subjects awaiting repatriation and so prevents their deportation to death camps. Although not legal, the documents look official and are accepted by German and Hungarian authorities, who are sometimes also bribed. The Swedish legation in Budapest also succeeds in negotiating with the German authorities so that the bearers of the protective passes would be treated as Swedish citizens and be exempt from having to wear the yellow badge required for Jews. With the money raised by the US War Refugee Board, WALLENBERG rents 32 buildings in Budapest and declares them to be extraterritorial, protected by diplomatic immunity. He put up signs such as 'The Swedish Library' and 'The Swedish Research Institute' on their doors and hangs oversize Swedish flags on the front of the buildings to bolster the deception. The buildings eventually house almost 10,000 Jewish people.
Raoul Wallenberg is later arrested by the Russians, imprisoned, and apparently executed in 1947(?). Later Raoul's mother and stepfather commit suicide in 1979. Their daughter Nina Lagergren, Raoul's half-sister, attributes their suicide to despair about never finding their son. |
The Helmbrechts Camp, a satellite camp of Flossenbürg concentration camp, is established in Upper Franconia.
24: An American bombing raid on an armament factory near the Buchenwald Concentration Camp also bombs the Camp using incendiaries and causing heavy casualties amongst prisoners.
29: Last transport leaves from the Lodz ghetto to Auschwitz.
24: An American bombing raid on an armament factory near the Buchenwald Concentration Camp also bombs the Camp using incendiaries and causing heavy casualties amongst prisoners.
29: Last transport leaves from the Lodz ghetto to Auschwitz.
| Animated Maps of the USA Holocaust Museum. |
MAURICE PAPON is photographed with General DE GAULLE in Bordeaux (see January 11).
5: In Auschwitz – Uprising-planning begins of the Sonderkommando Jews.
5: In Auschwitz – Uprising-planning begins of the Sonderkommando Jews.
7: In Auschwitz – Jewish girls (including ROZA ROBOTA) working in the Krupp plant smuggle explosives into camp. Skilled Soviet POWs turn the explosives into grenades and bombs.
c.3PM: Polish Sonderkommando (Special Squad') Jews revolt and blow up Crematorium I, Hungarians at Crematorium III and IV join in, and the Sonderkommando at Crematorium II breaks through the boundary wire.
The Sonderkommando in Crematorium IV drag their demolition charges into the oven rooms and detonate them in a defiant suicide.
c.3PM: Polish Sonderkommando (Special Squad') Jews revolt and blow up Crematorium I, Hungarians at Crematorium III and IV join in, and the Sonderkommando at Crematorium II breaks through the boundary wire.
The Sonderkommando in Crematorium IV drag their demolition charges into the oven rooms and detonate them in a defiant suicide.
the revolt is quickly suppressed and the escaped men recaptured with the help of local citizens.
Approximately 200 sonderkommando are forced to lie face down outside the crematoria where they are executed with single shots to the back of the head. Some of the men are initially spared for interrogation.
Four Jewish girls who had helped smuggle the explosives in are tortured for weeks but did not give information. ROZA ROBOTA died under torture; two survived to be hanged before all the women of Auschwitz; one of whom cried 'Revenge!' as she died.
Approximately 200 sonderkommando are forced to lie face down outside the crematoria where they are executed with single shots to the back of the head. Some of the men are initially spared for interrogation.
Four Jewish girls who had helped smuggle the explosives in are tortured for weeks but did not give information. ROZA ROBOTA died under torture; two survived to be hanged before all the women of Auschwitz; one of whom cried 'Revenge!' as she died.
20: In Auschwitz – Extermination by gassing ends.
In 1975 these terrorists/assassins' bodies are returned to Israel and they are given a state funeral by the Israeli government and interred on Mount Herzl with full military honours as if they were heroes. |
6: In Egypt – British Lord MOYNE, an opponent of Jewish settlement in Palestine, is shot dead in Cairo by two members of the Jewish Stern Gang (LHI) ELIYAHU BEIT-ZOURI and ELIAHU HAKIM, who are later captured, tried and executed in Cairo, March 1945.
7: In Auschwitz – The gas chambers are destroyed to hide the crimes
8: The "death march", ordered by ADOLF EICHMANN, of 20,000 Jews from Budapest to the Austrian border begins.
8: The "death march", ordered by ADOLF EICHMANN, of 20,000 Jews from Budapest to the Austrian border begins.
28: The remaining Jews of Budapest are sent to death camps.
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