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7301. Administration of the Auschwitz Camp Complex
1943, the SS decreed that Auschwitz-Birkenau and Auschwitz-Monowitz would become independent ... SS Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Hoess from May 1940 until November 1943 ... SS Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 until mid-May 1944 ... . Commanders of Auschwitz-Birkenau while it was independent (November 1943 until November 1944) were
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7302. Operation "Harvest Festival"
Government (Generalgouvernement, or German-occupied Poland) in the fall of 1943. Nazi officials ... the German-occupied East. In the spring and summer of 1943, German occupiers encountered armed ... On August 2, 1943, Jewish prisoners rebelled at the Treblinka killing ... 1943, facilitated the escape of over 300 prisoners; 58 of these survived the war. The
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7303. Deportations to Killing Centers
Jews to Sobibor in spring and summer 1943. In late summer 1943, they deported small groups of Soviet ... to Chelmno between January 1942 and spring 1943, and then in early summer 1944. The ghetto ... 1943 and 1944, the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center played a significant role in the German plan to ... kill the European Jews. Beginning in late winter 1943, trains arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau on a
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7304. Gusen
1943, fewer than 500 Soviet prisoners of war were still alive in the camp. During the later war ... to between 6,000 and 7,000 up until 1943. Better rations and less arbitrary mistreatment led to a ... decrease in the death rate from the summer of 1943 until the autumn of 1944, as the SS sought to maintain ... ,100 Gusen prisoners in gas chambers during 1942 and several hundred in 1944. During 1942 and 1943
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7305. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
operation. By early 1943, the surviving Jews in the Warsaw ghetto numbered approximately 70,000 to 80 ... against the Germans In January 1943, German SS and police ... ghetto. April 19, 1943-May 16, 1943 ... On April 19, 1943, the eve of the Passover holiday, the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto began their final
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7306. Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Administration
. From October 1941 until February 16, 1943, Majdanek had the official designation “Prisoner of War Camp ... Berlin. On February 16, 1943, in reflection of the administrative realities, the SS renamed Majdanek ... Lublin in September 1943. “Operation Reinhard,” implemented under Globocnik’s supervision between ... October 1941 and November 1943, had four goals: the physical annihilation of the Jews
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7307. Rescue
1943, German occupation authorities imposed martial law on Denmark in response to increasing acts of ... was in place. On September 28, 1943, a German businessman warned Danish authorities of the impending ... operation, scheduled for the night of October 1–2, 1943. With the help of their non-Jewish neighbors and ... positions during the Warsaw ghetto uprising in April 1943, the Polish
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7308. Theresienstadt: Other Prisoners
1943 and 1944, mostly from the Westerbork transit camp, but also from ... Bergen-Belsen. Many of the 297 Jews arriving in Theresienstadt from the Netherlands in 1943 were in ... August 1943, SS and police units deployed in the destruction of the ... transferred the children, numbering 1,260, to Theresienstadt on August 24, 1943. Since the older children knew
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7309. World War II Dates and Timeline
. August 7, 1942–February 9, 1943 For the first time, Allied forces go on the offensive against ... 1942–February 2, 1943 Soviet troops counterattack, breaking through the Hungarian and Romanian ... January 30 and February 2, 1943. May 13, 1943 Axis forces in Tunisia surrender ... to the Allies, ending the North African campaign. July 5, 1943 The Germans
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7310. The Krakow (Cracow) Ghetto during the Holocaust
's brother-in-law, was the District Governor until his reassignment to District Lublin in July 1943. The SS ... Jerozolimska Street in the Plaszow suburb of Krakow, one for men and one for women. By February 1943, the SS ... repairing bridges, rail track, and an indoor sports complex. By February 1943, the Jerozolimska Street camp ... liquidation of the Krakow ghetto for mid-March 1943, in accordance with the Himmler's order in October 1942 to
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7311. Treblinka
deported around 346,000 Jews to Treblinka II from the Radom District. From October 1942 until February 1943 ... . Deportations to Treblinka continued until the spring of 1943. Most prominent among the deportations were the ... uprising. A few isolated transports arrived after May 1943 ... centers. On August 23, 1943, following the prisoner revolt at Treblinka, Kurt Franz succeeded Stangl as
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7312. Bulgaria
Bulgaria had occupied in 1941. In March 1943, Bulgarian police and military units rounded up all the Jews ... to German-held territory. By the end of March 1943, virtually all of them died in the ... Ministry of the Interior. By winter 1943, the Bulgarian government had arranged with representatives of ... Bulgarian capital. During the first half of March 1943, Bulgarian military and police authorities
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7313. Fürstengrube
The Fürstengrube subcamp was organized in the summer of 1943 at the Fürstengrube hard coal mine ... production at the new mine was anticipated to start in late 1943, so construction was treated as very urgent ... to its regular staff. Negotiations in July 1943 between Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss and ... for August 1943 no longer mentions the number of Jews employed.3 The prisoners moved from
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7314. Operation Reinhard (Einsatz Reinhard)
operations. These included Operation Harvest Festival on November 3–4, 1943. In all, Operation Reinhard ... between the autumn of 1941 and the late summer of 1943. Globocnik was SS and Police leader in the Lublin ... and was functional until October 1943. The killing center at Treblinka, called Treblinka II, opened in ... July 1942. Treblinka II closed in August 1943. German
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7315. Italy
. Italian-occupied areas were therefore relatively safe for Jews. Between 1941 and 1943, thousands of Jews ... in the Axis surrender in Tunis on May 13, 1943, and the successful Allied landings in Sicily on July ... July 25, 1943. King Victor Emmanuel III used the Council vote as an excuse to arrest Mussolini and ... . On September 8, 1943, Badoglio announced Italy's unconditional surrender to the Allies. The Germans
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7316. Nesse Godin: un día en el ghetto de Siauliai
noviembre de 1943, el padre de Nesse, junto con otras personas, fue detenido y deportado del ghetto. Nesse ... en el ghetto de Siauliai, en Lituania. Narra lo que sucedió el día 5 de noviembre de 1943, cuando su ... Siauliai, en Lituania. El 5 de noviembre de 1943, tenía 15 años y medio. Ya tenía trabajo fuera del ghetto ... sándwich. Quizás eso me salvó la vida. Ese día en particular, el 5 de noviembre de 1943, cuando llegué a
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7317. Rescue in Denmark
On September 28, 1943, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat, secretly informed the Danish ... until August 29, 1943, had a largely independent government that ... August 29, 1943Danish government resignsThe Germans occupied Denmark on April 9 ... summer of 1943, with Allied military advances, resistance activity in Denmark increases in the form of
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7318. Bergen-Belsen
small towns of Bergen and Belsen, about 11 miles north of Celle, Germany. Until 1943, Bergen ... -Belsen was exclusively a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. In April 1943 the SS Economic-Administration Main ... "residence camp" was in operation from April 1943 until April 1945, and was composed of four subcamps: the ... from April 1943 until April 1945, consisted of the initial "prisoner's camp," the "recuperation camp
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7319. Bergen-Belsen: Key Dates
a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. April 1943The SS Economic-Administration ... . July 7, 1943The first transport of Jewish prisoners arrives in the “special camp ... ” (Sonderlager) from Poland. August 13, 1943The first transport of Jewish prisoners ... 1943The SS establishes the “star camp” (Sternlager) when the first transport of Jewish
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7320. Armed Jewish Resistance: Partisans
behind the front lines in the forests. While most Jewish armed resistance began in 1943, it should be ... circumstances and with a more sympathetic local population, also did not start until 1943. Despite ... several other towns. As the Germans liquidated the major ghettos in 1943, they met with armed Jewish ... killing centers of Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz during 1943-1944
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7321. Jewish Uprisings in Camps
August 2, 1943, Jews seized what weapons they could find—picks, axes, and some firearms stolen from the ... about half of them. Sobibor On October 14, 1943, prisoners in Sobibor killed 11 SS ... Other camp uprisings took place in the Kruszyna (1942), Minsk-Mazowiecki (1943), and ... Janowska (1943) camps. In several dozen camps prisoners organized escapes to join
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7322. Abdol Hossein Sardari (1895–1981)
Vichy authorities. In letters dated September 29, 1942, and March 17, 1943, Sardari communicated ... an effort to protect them from arrest and deportation. Soon after, on May 4, 1943, the names of 41 ... March 17, 1943, that the Jugutis should not be considered racially Jewish. He reported that they were a ... legal, and military rights and responsibilities as Muslims." In the spring of 1943, as a
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7323. Theresienstadt: Key Dates
Bohemia and Moravia. Perhaps 3,450 survive. January 1943Eichmann appoints ... Council of Jewish Elders in Theresienstadt. 1943–19444,897 Jews arrive in ... Netherlands in the 1930s, and three French Jews. August 24, 19431,260 Polish ... caregivers. On October 5, 1943, the SS authorities responsible for the camp-ghetto will deport 1
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7324. Sobibor
German SS and police officials conducted deportations to Sobibor between May 1942 and the fall of 1943 ... Treblinka. Reichleitner remained commandant until Sobibor was liquidated in November 1943 ... In early 1943, the Jewish prisoners became concerned as they sensed that killing operations in ... liquidated. In response, the prisoners organized a resistance group in the late spring of 1943. In late
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7325. Bergen-Belsen In Depth: The Camp Complex
starvation or disease due to deliberate neglect. The "Residence Camp" In April 1943, the ... Theresienstadt. In July 1943, the first transport of Jewish prisoners arrived in the "special camp ... -Belsen camp complex. In October 1943, the SS and German police deported around 1,800 of the prisoners in ... (Neutralenlager) from August 1943 to March 1945. These prisoners were mainly Sephardic Jews whom the German