This Holocaust Author's Auschwitz Blog

March 1st.

1933 Rabbi S. Wise seeks to ensure the American President has Hitler’s assault’s upon the Jews of Europe as a Centre piece to America’s Foreign Policy!

1935 Germany retakes the Saarland.

1941 Himmler plans expansion of Auschwitz Camps. Construction of Birkenau, Auchwitz II, begins. Bulgaria allied to Germany.

1942 Sobibor Death Camp under Construction.

1943 Madison Square Garden Rally, New York, saw 20,000 protesters inside urging greater support for the Jews of Europe. A further 50,000 protesters remained outside the building.

March 2nd.

1939 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII.

1941 Hitler outlines plans for Operation Barbarossa. German troops occupy Bulgaria.

1942 5,000 Minsk Jews are murdered at Koidanovo.

March 3rd.

1936 Jewish doctors prohibited from practicing in all public health institutions throughout Germany

1941 Cracow Ghetto established. Cracow, the First Jewish Settlement on Polish soil, in existence since 13th. Century. Dr. Arthur Rosenzweig Chairman of Judenrate. Over 56,000 Jews are enclosed.

1942 2,300 Baranowicze Jews murdered. 1,500 Dolginovov Jews murdered. Belgian Jews forced into labor gangs.

1944 Over 700 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.

1945 Finland declares War on Germany. American troops cross the Rhine at Remagen.

1951 Members of The Treblinka Death Camp staff are tried before a Court in Frankfurt.

March 4th.

1933 United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt makes his inaugural address. Roosevelt will remain President throughout The Holocaust years.

March 4th. 1938 “..Providence ..charged me with a mission to reunite ..German peoples with a mission to restore my homeland to ..German Reich. ..believed in this mission. ..lived for it ..and ..now fulfilled it.” Adolf Hitler.

1941 Bunawerk factory authorised for Auschwitz area.

1943 Over 800 Jews from Gurs deported to Drancy then Auschwitz. Jews of Thrace deported to Treblinka.

March 5th.

1933 Nazis secure 44% of the votes cast, with 288 seats in the Reichstag Election. A coalition is formed with the Social Democrats who hold 18% of the vote. Hitler assumes total control in Germany. All Individual German States now have all power divested of them.

1943 1,300 Khmelnik Jews murdered.

1947 The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. Case Number 3. The Judges Justice Case begins. 9 members of the Reich Ministry of Justice and 7 members of the People’s and Special Courts are charged with using their power as prosecutors and judges to commit War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.

March 6th.

1940 Jewish Physicians in Poland barred from treating ‘aryans.’

1942 Sterilisation Conference convened.

1943 Over 900 Jews from Gurs deported to Drancy then Auschwitz.

March 7th.

1936 Hitler denounces Locarno Pact. German troops remilitarise and occupy the Rhineland.

1941 1,000’s of Polish and German Jews forced into labour squads.

1942 100’s of Mielec Jews murdered.

1944 Over 1,500 French Jews to Auschwitz.

1945 Allies take Cologne.

March 9th.

1933 Himmler becomes the Police President in Munich.

1936 Jews are killed and injured in Przytyk, Poland, during anti-Semitic riots .

1942 700 Cihrin Jews murdered.

March 10th.

1927 Speaking ban on Hitler lifted.

1948 The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. Case Number 8 ends. 13 defendants are found guilty on one or more charges. One defendant is acquitted. Maria Dolezalova, a 15-year-old Czech girl kidnapped by the Germans, testifies for the prosecution at the Trial.

March 11th.

1939 Hungarian Labor Service System requires enforced Military construction duties of Jews.

1941 Lend Lease enacted. America lends material support for War against Hitler.

1942 2,000 Mielec Jews murdered.

Thursday, March 11th.1943 “..Polish people ..looks with horror ..deep sympathy on ..murder of ..remainder of ..Jewish population in Poland.” Rzeczpospolita Polska.

1944 300 Gospic Jews to Jasenovac.

March 12th.

1938 German Army enters Vienna.

1940 All of Schneidemuehl’s 160 Jews deported to Lublin in freight cars. German Gypsies are now being deported from Western and Northern Germany. Russia and Finland sign Pact.

1943 Grodno is now declared ‘Judenrein’. 40,000 Jews have been resettled to Auschwitz and Treblinka.

1945 Kaltenbrunner meets President of IRC, Professor Burckhardt.

March 13th.

1932 German Presidential Election’s Adolf Hitler polled over 30% of the votes cast, with 13,700,000 votes

1933 Goebbels appointed Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

1938 Austria is absorbed into the Reich, by means of ‘Anschluss’. The systematic larceny of Jewish assets is set in motion within Austria.

” ..at ..reunion ..Austria with ..German Reich ..Heydrich gave ..order ..set ..Jewish emigration in motion from Vienna.” Adolf Eichmann.

1941 Hitler issues addition to War Directive No. 21 for the Barbarossa campaign.

1942 650 Hulievca Jews murdered. Jewish Joint Distribution Committee statement issued an eyewitness reportstating that:

“..Germans have already killed 240,000 Jews in Ukraine alone.”

1943 Cracow Ghetto liquidated. Many of the liquidated Jews were shot in the Zgoda Square, along with the town of Wadowice’s own Rabbi Seltenreich. First of new design of crematoria opens at Auschwitz. Murder will now be more complete, and the total removal of all evidence of the mass murder will near totality. There will be 5 purpose built Krematorium with their own gas chambers in operation here. 2 other extermination facilities are prepared at Bunker I, the little Red House, and Bunker II, the little White House. Gassing did also commence from within Block 11. During a 24 hour period, utilising all 46 ovens, between 12,000 and 15,000 Jewish Victims could be totally destroyed. There were designs also for a 6th. Krema, which never got off the drawing board. The ashes of the Victims too was a resource that Hitler’s Germany sought to utilise.

1944 Kherson Liberated by Russian Forces.

March 14th.

1937 Pope Pius XI encyclical ‘With Burning Concern’, ‘Mit brennender Sorge’ declares Totalitarian State and Hitler racial hared ‘twin evils.’ A question which persists is concerned with why the Pope remained so quiet on the question of the Jewish situation. The Pope was meant to be vocal in the call of Christ, in the manner of humanity and in respect that all that Christ taught us about tolerance and the perpetuity of all life here on Earth?

1942 Over 900 Ilja Jews burned alive.

1943 2,000 Cracow Jews to Auschwitz. 700 Cracow Jews murdered.

March 15th.

1939 Nazi’s enter Czechoslovakia. Nazi’s Annex Bohemia-Moravia which become a Reich Protectorate.

1940 Bochnia Ghetto, Poland is established. 15,000 Jews from Town and surrounding area are Enclosed.

1941 The Planned expulsion of Vienna’s Jews was halted. 5,000 Jews had already been displaced. Barbarossa beckoning, a newer reckoning with The Jews of Europe was being formulated.

1942 Hitler predicts victory over Russia, by Summer.

1943 Deportations begin from Greece. Deportations begin from Salonika. Deportations begin from Thrace.

1944 Comb through of Greece for expellation of Jews to Auschwitz. Some 69,221 Jews of Greece were murdered. Russian forces cross Bug River.

March 16th.

1935 Military Conscription in Germany is reconvened in contravention of the Versailles Treaty.

1939 German Troops enter Prague. Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. Slovakia a Reich Protectorate.

1942 Lublin Ghetto clearance begins. 9,000 Lublin Ghetto Jews removed to Belzec. Belzec seeks to adopt a more robust static gassing facility in a wooden hut. The move away from the ‘gassing van’ was being made. Over 1,800 Pochep Jews are murdered. Murder of 100’s more of Mielec’s Jews.

1943 Germans retake Kharkov.

1944 Admiral Horthy accepts Hitler’s Policing control. Hungary accedes to Jewish deportation.

1945 Allies attack in Saar Basin.

March 17th.

1933 Hitler’s SS Bodyguard Regiment Adolf Hitler, ‘Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’ formed under Josef ‘Sepp’ Dietrich. Schacht becomes President of the Reichsbank.

1936 Demonstrations by Jews and left-wing and liberal Poles protesting against the anti-Jewish riots in Poland.

1941 Hitler convenes meeting and restates to General Halder that Russian campaign calls for early successes with ‘no reversals’.

1942 Belzec Death Camp begins its extermination of Jews.

1943 1,500 Lvov Jews murdered.

March 18th.

1944 Hitler orders German troops into Hungary. RAF drops over 3,000 Tons of bombs on Hamburg.

March 19th.

1933 Jewish War Veterans of America to boycott German goods and services.

March 19th. 1941 “.. Lithuania’s liberation is close at hand. ..traitors will be pardoned ..if they provide certain proof ..liquidated at least one Jew. ..Jews must be informed ..their fate has been decided upon. ..At ..decisive moment ..seize their property ..nothing will be lost.” Lithuania Activist Front.

1942 2,000 Rava Ruska Jews murdered at Belzec. 500 Belgrade Jews murdered in ‘gassing vans’.

1944 Germany occupies Hungary.

1945 Hitler orders his own ‘Scorched Earth’ policy.

March 20th.

1933 Dachau Concentration Camp is established on the outskirts of the Town. SA and SS form the first Policing guards of the Camp system. In partnership with Hartheim, prisoners from Dachau will be gassed.

1939 Nazi burning of over 5,000 drawings, paintings and sculptures in Berlin.

1942 2,000 Rohatyn Jews murdered. Ernst von Weizsacker approves removal 6,000 Parisian Jews to Auschwitz.

1943 First deportations from Salonika arrive at Auschwitz.

March 21st.

1933 Communist Deputies banned from taking Reichstag Seats. Special Courts to deal with Hitler’s political enemies established. A threat is issued that any assassination attempt upon Hitler will result in all the Jews of Germany being put up against the wall and then shot.

1939 Jews seek refuge away from Memel, Lithuania, as German troops enter the City.

1942 26,000 Lublin Ghetto Jews murdered at Belzec.

March 22nd.

1933 Dachau concentration camp opens

1938 President Roosevelt issues invitations to 33 Nations to a Congress meant to assist the escalating Jewish Refugee situation.

1940 Goering halts deportations of Jews to Lublin.

1943 New Crematoria in Birkenau in operation. Bulgaria assists deportations of Thracian Jews. Bulgaria assists deportations of Macedonian Jews.

1944 Jewish Uprising at Koldyczewo.

March 23rd.

1938 Jewish community organizations no longer recognized.

1942 Birkenau Women’s Camp established. Jewish Women and Gypsy Women arrive from Ravensbrueck. First Slovak Jews arrive at Birkenau.

1943 Over 900 Marseilles Jews deported to Auschwitz.

1944 Over 1,600 Yanina Jews to Auschwitz. Over 590 Dutch Jews to Auchwitz.

1945 Allies attack toward Ruhr. British cross Rhine at Wesel.

March 24th.

1933 The Enabling Act, the Law for Removal of the Distress of People and the Reich, ‘Ermaechtigungsgesetz,’ is passed. Hitler gains dictatorial powers. Germany’s artistic growth will be fuelled by ‘blood and race.’

1941 Lublin Ghetto, Poland is established. 35,000 Jews are enclosed. Chief Engineer Henryk Bekker Chariman of Lublin . Mark Alten, the Zionist Leader is its spiritual Head. Over 200,000 Jews Enclosed in ‘Lublinland.’

1942 2,200 Izbica Lubelska Jews murdered at Belzec. Izbica Jews are aware of their fate, upon arrival at Belzec. Izbica Lubelska cleared to make way for Theresienstadt Jewish transport. Resettlement of West European Jews to Belzec begins. Belgian Government-in-Exile recognises that 10,000 of its Jewish Citizens had already been expelled toward Lodz.

1944 Ardeatine Cave massacre. Roosevelt warns Hungary to refrain from anti-Jewish measures.

March 25th.

1941 Yugoslavia joins Axis alliance.

1942 1,000 Tarnopol Jews murdered. 100 Glebokie Jews murdered.

1943 2,000 Zolkiew Jews murdered in Borek Forest. 1,000 Jews Marseilles Jews deported to Auschwitz.

March 26th.

1938 Goering makes ‘aryanisation’ a clear principle in Vienna. The extortion of anything the Jews own begins. Everything possible is to be confiscated.

1941 German Army High Command, OKH, gives special powers Heydrich’s RSHA, on Einsatzgruppe method of operations in Russia.

1942 58,000 Slovakian Jews deported to Auschwitz and Majdanek. All Jewish homes in Germany to have notices identifying their Jewish occupants.

Sunday, 26th. March 1944. “..All I think about is Marta. ..just a girl ..Germans killed her. ..I don’t want them to kill me.” Eva Heyman.

March 27th.

1933 An anti-Nazi rally held in New York City, 55,000 people attend. A boycott is proposed of German goods if Germany insists upon their own but permanent boycott of Jewish owned business.

1942 Goebbels acknowledged that 60% of all World Jews would be liquidated. Wannsee targeted 11,293,300 Jews. 60% of that Wannsee figure represents 6,600,000 Jews murdered within The Holocaust?

March 27th. 1942 “..Not much will remain of ..Jews. ..Sixty percent ..will ..be liquidated. ..whole series of possibilities presents itself for us in wartime that would be denied us in peacetime.” Josef Goebbels.

1944 1,800 Kovno Women and Children murdered. Over 1,000 French Jews to Auschwitz.

March 28th.

1938 Law diminishing legal rights of Jewish cultural organizations. Hitler incites Sudeten Germans.

1942 First French Jews arrive Auschwitz. Fritz Sauckel, Gauleiter Thuringia, becomes Slave Labour Chief.

1944 600 Boryslaw Jews to Plaszow Camp. Russian forces enter Galicia.

1945 Russian forces reach Austria. Some 65,000 Jews murdered. American and British troops at the Elbe.

March 29th.

1936 SS Death’s Head Division of Camp Guards renamed SS Deaths Head Units ‘Totenkopfverbande.’ SS expanded to 3,500 men. Reichstag election sees Hitler’s policies gain 98% approval.

1940 German Foreign Office denies move to expel Berlin’s Jews.

March 30th.

1941 Hitler’s ‘Fuhrer Order’ as he prepares to move ‘East’ and states his plans to his Generals. Hitler declares his intention to murder all Jews. Wehrmacht troops murder 250 Subotica Jewish Youths and 250 Jews in Novi Sad. Vichy appoints Commissioner for Jewish Question.

1943 Himmler visits Treblinka.

March 31st.

1933 Oranienburg Concentration Camp is established. All German States denied individual power.

1939 Chamberlain pledges Britain’s and France’s guarantee of Polish sovereignty.

1942 5,000 Stanislawow Jews murdered at Belzec.

February 1st.

1942 SS Economic Administrative Main Office, ‘Wirtschafts Verwaltungshauptamt’ WVHA established under SS Gruppenfuhrer Oswald Pohl, controlling Concentration Camps.

1943 2,000 Buczacz Jews murdered.

1945 Gross-Rosen Death March of 40,000 inmates.

February 2nd.

1933 All Political demonstrations in Germany are banned.

1943 Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus and German 6th. Army, surrender at Stalingrad. 300,000 Germans are dead or captured. With the defeat of Hitler’s Armies here at Stalingrad, the need to destroy the very evidence of The Holocaust was conceived. ‘Sonderkommando 1005’, to be directed by Blobel’s punctilious effort, came into being.

1945 Red Cross discuss with SS relief of all Camps.

February 3rd.

1933 Hitler’s Lebensraum, his expansion plan is revealed. Der Sturmer is now an official organ of the party.

1939 Budapest Synagogue bombed.

1944 Over 980 Parisian Jews from Drancy to Auschwitz

February 4th.

1936 Wilhelm Gustloff, the Swiss Nazi Party Leader, is assassinated by David Frankfurter, a Jewish Student. It proves an expedient for Hitler, at this time, not to react, not to show indignation as will be witnessed with the Grynzspan affair in 1938.

1938 Joachim von Ribbentrop appointed Foreign Minister. Nazis in Austria set to take all Jewish business.

1945 Yalta Conference. Meeting at Yalta, FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree that a prosecution of Axis leaders should follow the expected conclusion of World War II.

February 5th.

1941 Romania issues Law for Protection of State.

1943 Jewish Resistance in Bialystok. 2,000 Jews are killed resisting.

February 7th.

1939 Alfred Rosenberg, Foreign Political Office, proposes a Jewish reserve for World Jewry.

“..What territories are ..democracies willing to provide for ..settling some 15,000,000 Jews.” Alfred Rosenberg.

1940 Warsaw Jews prevented from attending public libraries.

1943 First Armed Resistance in Warsaw Ghetto.

February 8th.

1940 Lodz Ghetto Established. More than 202,000 Jews are Enclosed. Lodz is One of the Nine Major Ghettoes Established. More than 8,200 Lodz Jews will die from Starvation in this 1st Year.

1942 First major deportations to Death Camps commence. Fritz Todt, Minister for Armaments and War Production, is killed. Hitler is back at the Wolfsschanze.

1943 Russians retake Kursk.

February 9th.

1939 More anti Jewish legislation passed in Italy.

1942 Albert Speer succeeds Fritz Todt.

1945 Allies reach the Rhine.

1948 Final Judgment in der Einsatzgruppe Case is delivered.

February 10th.

1935 Prohibition of gatherings urging Jews to remain in Germany.

1936 Gestapo placed above the law.

1939 Pope Pius XI dies.

1944 Over 1,200 Parisian Jews from Drancy to Auschwitz. Over 800 Dutch Jews from Westerbork to Auschwitz.

February 12th.

1933 Berlin’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ riots lead to the death of a Communist Party Member and injuries to 100’s of other’s. Jews are systematically targeted.

1940 First deportations of Jews from Germany, Pomerania to Lublin. Goering moves to stem flow of Jewish expulsions to Eastern Poland, except those from Lodz.

1941 Reich Protectorate decree demands all capital be declared by its Jews.

1942 Oswald Pohl issues instructions to Concentration Camps on maximum usage of inmates for ‘work’. Restricted to 10% of Camp population.

1943 Week-long resettlement at Bialystok ends. 10,000 Bialystok Jews murdered at Treblinka. Himmler and his entourage of 20 High Ranking Personnel in a fleet of 7 Cars, arrives at Sobibor to oversee the destructive capacity of the facility. Over 200 Female Jews from Lipowa, including 70 of Wlodowa’s “prettiest Jewish Females” are murdered for Himmler’s benefit! Later that day, Himmler and his party visit Treblinka.

1946 Chief Soviet Prosecutor Roman Rudenko examines Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who provides testimony relating to German activities in Eastern Europe that incriminates Goering, Jodl, and Keitel.

1948 Defense closing statement in der Einsatzgruppe Case is completed.

February 13th.

1941 First Amsterdam Jewish Council, ‘Joodse Raad,’ meets.

1942 Hamburg Jewish leaders murdered in Minsk Ghetto.

1948 Prosecution closing statement in der Einsatzgruppe Case is delivered.

February 14th

February 14th. 1942 “..Jews have deserved ..catastrophe that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will go hand in hand with ..destruction of our enemies. We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness.” Josef Goebbels.

1943 Russians retake Rostov. Over 18,000 Rostov Jews were murdered.

1944 Himmler reduces Lodz Ghetto.

1945 Allied Air Raids devastate Dresden over 2 Nights. Russian forces liberate Buda part of Budapest. Budapest surrenders. More than 90,000 Jews reprieved by Russian forces.

February 15th.

1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart appointed Austrian Interior Minister.

1941 Kielce Ghetto taking in nearly 1,000 Viennese Jews per week.

1942 First massed Jewish gassing at Auschwitz. The realm of Auschwitz/Birkenau will incorporate 5 purpose-built Krematoria with their own gas chambers.

“..I have created a world power out of ..German Reich. I am boundlessly proud that I was blessed by Providence ..to lead this battle.” Adolf Hitler.

1943 Russians retake Voroshilovgrad.

1944 Cassino Monastery destroyed.

February 16th.

1937 German and Poland relations strengthened by Goering visit.

1944 Wehrmacht counters at Anzio.

1948 Dr. Irmfried Eberl commits suicide.

February 17th.

1934 Great Britain, France and Italy move to secure Austrian independence.

1941 Romania joins Hitler’s War effort.

1945 7 Sokoly Jewish Survivors murdered by locals. 4 year old, Tokele, is included in these shameful murders.

February 18th.

1940 Two Jewish Warsaw teenage girls raped in the Jewish cemetery by two Wehrmacht ‘officers’.

1941 Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council seek loan from German Banks.

1943 Student unrest in Munich

1946 Russian prosecutors offer into evidence a 45-minute film, including footage from captured German films, showing shocking evidence of atrocities.

February 19th.

1940 Waffen SS training moves out of Dachau.

1948 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Case Number 7, ends. Eight defendants are found guilty of their crimes and are sentenced to varying periods of imprisonment. Two defendants are acquitted. Two other defendants committed suicide before the verdict was reached.

February 20th.

1933 Hitler wins over a group of leading German industrialists at a meeting designed for that purpose.

February 21st.

1939 Jews required to hand over gold and silver.

February 22nd.

1933 40,000 SA and SS sworn in as auxiliary Police.

1941 Beginning of action against Jews of Plock.

1944 Over 460 Fossoli Jews to Auschwitz. Over 80 Narva Jews to Auschwitz.

February 23rd.

1941 400 Amsterdam Jews sent to Buchenwald and Mauthausen.

1942 Struma is sunk. Over 700 Jewish Refugees drown.

1943 Stanislawow Ghetto Liquidated.

1945 Americans close in on Cologne.

February 24th.

1920 Nazi Party is born from the ‘Nationalsozialistischen Deutsche Arbeiter Party.’

1942 Over 30,000 Lodz Jews deported to Chelmno.

February 25th.

1932 Hitler granted German Citizenship.

1941 Dutch General Strike over deportation of Jews.

1943 First transports from Salonika to Auschwitz.

1944 Over 30 Viennese Jews to Auschwitz.

February 26th.

1924 Hitler’s trial begins.

1943 First Gypsy transport arrives at Auschwitz.

1944 Over 50 Sosnowiec Jews to Auschwitz.

February 27th.

1933 German Reichstag set on fire. Blame falls upon the Communists.

1943 Deportation of Jewish armament workers from Berlin to Auschwitz.

February 28th.

1933 President Hindenburg gives plenary powers to Hitler. Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the Nation and State the ‘Reichstagsbrandverordnung,’ the Reichstag Fire Decree. Weimar Constitution all but annulled. All 100 Communist deputees are arrested.

1941 Entire Jewish population of Plock removed to Dzialdowo Camp and murdered.

1943 2,000 Stryj Jews murdered at Sobibor. Aktion 1005 begins at Treblinka.

February 29th.

1936 Cardinal August Hold, head of Catholic Church in Poland, issues his ‘pastoral letter’, discriminating against the Jewish People.

January 1st.

1934 The SS is fully in control of the Concentration Camp system. Hitler orders a military building program of 4,000 new aircraft. Jewish holidays are removed from German calendar. During the early part of the year Nazi Youth members are targetting Catholic youth groups throughout Germany, intimidating and beating them. German laws are passed allowing for the sterilization of the ‘unfit,’ laws which were passed in July of the previous year. Hitler orders a military build up of 4,000 new Aircraft to be completed within 20 Months.

1937 German Ethnic Resettlement Assistance Office, VOMI ‘Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle’ founded. All ethnic Germans returned to the fold.

1939 Jewish Capital expropriated and Israel or Sarah ‘name’ decree comes into force.

1941 439 Jews gassed at Kalisz.

1942 United Nations declaration ratified by 26 Allied Nations. UN War Crimes Commission established.

January 2nd.

1940 No Jewish obituaries allowed in Generalgouvernement.

1943 Wehrmacht begins withdrawal from Caucausus.

1947 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Case Number 2, The Erhard Milch Case of the former German Luftwaffe Field Marshall Erhard Milch begins. Milch is charged with murder and cruel treatment of POWs and with participation in experiments dealing with effects of high altitude and freezing on Camp inmates.

Saturday January 3rd. 1942 “..rumour is abroad ..execution was filmed.” Fritz Dietrich.

This is a serious breach of discipline, when we consider the ultra secretive nature of the mass murder undertakings against the Jewish People. Severest retribution was proposed for any individual who photographed the murder operations, let alone filmed them. We are, however, indebted to the many who, through curiosity or callous intent, have brought the brutal truth of The Holocaust to life in exacting detail.

1944 Russian Forces on Polish border.

January 4th.

1933 Secret meeting between Hitler and Franz von Papen to establish governmental role for Hitler.

1942 Chaim Rumkowski makes the boast that Jews can be saved, ‘Through Work.’

1943 Czestochowa Ghetto Uprising!

1946 Colonel Telford Taylor makes the prosecution case against the German High Command. His impressive performance will help secure his appointment as lead prosecutor in the subsequent Nuremberg trials.

January 5th.

1939 Under Nuremberg Laws, only Karaite Jews exempted.

1942 Kharkov Ghetto liquidated.

1943 Reprisals against Jews of Czestochowa sees 250 Elderly and Children shot.

January 6th.

1929 Himmler appointed ‘Reichsfuhrer SS.’

1940 Jews in Warsaw denied heating fuels.

1942 The Russian Foreign Minister, Molotov hands over information on the Babi-Yar massacre, as well as other mass actions and locations of graves are disclosed to British and US Governments.

1943 2,000 Ujazd Jews murdered Treblinka.

1944 Russian Forces in Byelorussia. Jewish Partisan activity escalates.

1948 Nuremberg War Crimes Trail, Case Number 11, The Ministries Case, begins. Twenty One defendants, including three Reich Ministers and members of the Nazi Party hierarchy are charged with waging wars of aggression, violating international treaties and committing various crimes of war, including crimes against humanity.

January 7th.

1942 Chelmno Death Camp gassing of Jews from surrounding area had already commenced. The expellation of Jews from Lodz to Chelmno begins. 5,000 Gypsies from Lodz gassed at Chelmno.

1943 15,000 Lvov Jews murdered in 2 day action. 4,000 Augustow Jews deported Auschwitz.

January 8th.

1946 The prosecution begin its case against individual defendants.

January 9th.

1941 Hitler abandons plans to invade Britain. 1,000 Theresienstadt Jews deported to Riga.

1943 8,000 Warsaw Jews ordered for final ‘resettlement.’

January 10th.

1941 Jews in Holland register.

First Session UN Assembly, London.

January 11th.

1923 French and Belgian troops occupy Ruhr.

1941 Frank gains a stay of Himmler’s deportation plans.

1945 Russians are at Warsaw.

January 12th.

1893 Hermann Goering is born.

1940 300 Hordyszcze asylum inmates murdered.

1942 Precursor to Nuremberg Trials as Europe and China resolve to try All Axis Leaders War Criminals for war crimes:

“..whether they have ordered ..perpetrated ..or in any way participated in them.”

1943 20,000 Zambrow Jews deported Auschwitz. 1,000 Berlin Jews deported Auschwitz.

1944 1,000 Jews from Stutthof Camp to Auschwitz. 95 Lodz Jews to Auschwitz. 23 Trieste Jews to Auschwitz. Allies attack at Monte Cassino.

January 13th.

1935 Plebiscite for Saar’s return to Reich secures 91% vote in favour.

1942 10,000 Lodz Ghetto Jews for Forced Labour.

Wednesday, 13th. January 1943. “..Day and night ..dragged off. ..deprived ..of ..possessions. Families ..torn apart ..all ..separated. Children coming home ..find ..their parents have disappeared. Women return ..to find ..their families gone.” Anne Frank.

January 14th.

1940 880 Jewish Prisoners of war force marched. Over 600 shot.

1942 Dutch Jewry being prepared for ‘resettlement’.

1943 8,000 Lomza Jews deported Auschwitz. Casablanca Conference held. Only Unconditional Surrender considered.

1945 Russians have crossed into East Prussia.

January 15th.

1942 Allied pledge to punish War Criminals.

“..a Jew. ..tied ..to ..sleigh ..forced to run. ..couldn’t run anymore ..they dragged him along ..then shot him.” David Rubinowicz.

1945 54,000 inmates remain in Ravensbrueck.

January 16th.

1942 10,000 Lodz Jews murdered at Chelmno.

1944 Tuczyn (Tuchin) is Liberated. 20 of the original 3,000 Jews Survive.

1945 Russian forces liberate 800 Czestochowa Jewish Survivors. 80,000 Jews are now freed from Hitler’s intentions.

January 17th.

1939 Jewish dentists, pharmacists and vets lose their license to work.

1942 Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, who sought Wehrmacht Einsatzgruppe cooperation in Russia, dies!

1944 Over 400 Malines Jews to Auschwitz.

1945 Russian forces liberate Warsaw. More than 374,000 Jews of Warsaw were murdered. Few Jews Survive.

1946 First Session UN Security Council, London.

January 18th.

1940 255 Warsaw Jews shot in Palmiry Forest.

1942 A First Theatre performance held in Vilna Ghetto.

1943 6,000 Warsaw Ghetto Jews murdered Treblinka. Jewish Resistance plans to disrupt ‘resettlement’ operations. 1,000 Jews are murdered after Resisting. This is the 1st. Jewish Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. Resistance lasts for 4 days.

1944 300 Buczacz Jews murdered.

1945 Auschwitz Camp is being abandoned. Death March begins 66,000 prisoners toward Wodzislaw. Russian forces liberate Pest part of Budapest. Russian forces take Cracow. More than 7,000 Jews of Cracow were eventually murdered. 17,000 Jews are missing.

January 19th.

1942 Russian troops recapture Mozhaisk. Moscow will not be taken.

1944 Siege of Leningrad lifted. Russians retake Novgorod.

1945 Russian forces liberate Lodz. More than 200,000 Lodz Jews were murdered. Less than 900 of the Jewish community Survive.

January 20th.

1939 Hitler sacks Hjalmar Schacht from Reichsbank Presidency.

1942 The Wannsee Conference is convened and Hitler now ensures all arms of the Reich, all Government Agency’s and the wider German public are signed up to The Final Solution. Heydrich will outline Plans to Annihilate 11,293,300 Jews!

1943 Jews from Theresienstadt expelled to Auschwitz.

1944 Over 1,000 Parisian Jews from Drancy to Auschwitz.

1945 4,200 Jews shot in Birkenau. Hungarian Provisional Government signs Armistice.

January 21st.

1938 Jews have their citizenship revoked in Romania.

1942 United Partisan Organization established in Vilna.

1943 The ‘January Aktion’ Resistance of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto ends.

January 22nd.

1940 Vatican attacks German conduct in Poland.

1941 Bulgaria dislodges Jews from professional positions, Public Sector workers, Doctor’s and Lawyer’s. A punitive tax is also imposed on Jewish Homes and Businesses.

1944 Allied forces land in Anzio.

1945 Russian forces are at the Oder River in Silesia.

January 23rd. 1942 1,500 Novi Sad Jews are murdered, thrown into the Danube River. 100’s of Serbs are also murdered in the Danube River. Hitler met with over 50 High Ranking Nazi officials to no doubt approve and commission the 3 Death Camps at Belzec, which commenced their work, March 17th, at Sobibor, where mass murder commenced in May and at Treblinka, where the destruction of the Jews began in July 22nd. of that same year This certainly suggests that all of this was a final resolve that had now become The Final Solution, die Endlosung der Judenfrage.

January 24th.

1934 Jews banned from German Labour Front.

1939 Goering gives Heydrich power to establish a ‘Reichszentale fur Judische Auswanderung’, a Reich Bureau Central Office for Jewish Emigration from Germany. This is the Eichmann Vienna model. There are 80,000 Jews left in Germany. Heydrich then appoints Heinrich Mueller, the Gestapo Chief, to lead it.

1940 Jewish property in Generalgouvernement registered.

1942 400 Kolomyia Jews murdered.

January 25th.

1939 German Foreign Office circulates deportation of Polish Jews from Germany.

1940 Though in containment operation since 1939, Oswiecim, Auschwitz, is chosen as site of new Concentration Camp.

1942 Hitler once more states intention to exterminate the Jews.

1943 2,120 Jasionowka Jews deported Auschwitz.

1945 Death March for Stutthof Camp Survivors.

January 26th.

1934 Germany and Poland sign 10 year non-Aggression Pact.

1937 Jews prohibited to work in German offices

1940 Warsaw Judenrate fined after ethnic German beaten.

1941 120 Bucharest Jews murdered. 1,000’s of Bucharest’s Jews are brutalised in anti-Jewish riots.

1943 1,000 Stanislawow Jews murdered. Week long Transport of 5,000 Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz.

1944 Russians publish Katyn Massacre investigation. After a Report outlines America’s failure in securing Rescue for those under Nazi threat, President Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board.

1945 Budapest Ghetto Liquidated.

January 27th.

1943 1,300 Grodek Jagiellonski Jews murdered.

1944 Over 680 Dutch Jews from Westerbork to Auschwitz. Russians retake Leningrad.

1945 Russian forces liberate Auschwitz. Jewish prisoners liberated. Estimates as high as 2,500,000 Jews murdered. Russian forces liberate Memel.

“..highest number of gassings in one day was 10,000. ..most that could be carried out in a day with ..available facilities.” Rudolf Hoess.

January 28th.

1933 German Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher resigns.

1942 Russians advance into Ukraine.

1943 12,000 Pruzana Jews deported Auschwitz. Sauckel issues general mobilisation decree.

1946 During the French phase of the prosecution, French journalist Marie Claude Vaillant-Courturier provides heart-wrenching eyewitness testimony of atrocities at Auschwitz.

January 29th.

1943 4,000 Dutch Jews from Westerbork to Auschwitz. 1,000 Berlin Jews deported Auschwitz.

Friday January 29th. 1943 “..completed furnaces have been started up in ..presence of Engineer Prufer ..Topf. ..planks cannot yet be moved from ..ceiling of ..mortuary cellar on account of frost ..but this is not important ..as ..gassing cellar can be used for that purpose. ..ventilation plant has been held up by restrictions on rail transport ..but ..installation should be ready by February 20th.” Karl Bischoff.

January 30th.

1933 Adolf Hitler appointed, ‘Reichskanzler’. von Papen is vice-Chancellor. The Nazi’s are in power. The ‘Judische Jugenhilfe’ is established in Berlin.

1934 Hitler declares he will not be deterred from rearming.

Monday January 30th. 1939 “..shameful spectacle to see how ..whole democratic world is oozing sympathy for ..poor ..tormented Jewish people ..but remains hard hearted and obdurate when it comes to helping them.” Adolf Hitler.

1940 Heydrich holds conference on resettlement of Jews and Volkdeutche. British Embassy in Bucharest demands Romania prevents ships departing with Jewish refugees.

1941 Hitler repeats his threat to destroy all of European Jewry.

“..Today I will once more be a prophet. If ..international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging nations once more into a world war then ..result will not be .. bolshevization of ..earth and ..victory of Jewry ..but ..annihilation of ..Jewish race in Europe!” Adolf Hitler.

1942 Hitler reaffirms his aim to completely annihilate the Jews.

1943 Ernst Kaltenbrunner succeeds Heydrich as head of RSHA.

1944 Over 560 Milan Jews to Auschwitz.

January 31st.

1941 3,000 of Pruszkow’s Jews deported to Warsaw Ghetto with 70,000 from other areas soon following. German attempts to establish Judenrat in Frankfurt and France.

1942 SS Brigadefuhrer Franz Stahlecker’s ‘Einsatzgruppe A’ report on liquidation of 229,052 Baltic Jews.

December 1st.

1926 Goebbels becomes ‘Gauleiter’ of Berlin.

1933 A legal decree issued by Hitler declares Germany and the Nazi Party one. Hermann Goering orders closure of all SA ‘wild camps.’ Jewish Social Democratic politician Ernst Heilmann is arrested. The antisemitic Glaubensbewegung deutscher Christen (Movement of German Christian Believers) becomes the semiofficial religious organization of Germany. An antisemitic, anti-Communist organization, Gesamtverband deutscher anti-kommunistischer Vereinigungen (General Association of German Anti-Communist Societies), is founded. The Volksempfänger (People’s Radio Receiver) debuts in Germany. Schlageter, a pro-Nazi play by Hanns Johst, premieres. It is a tribute to Nazi “martyr” Albert Leo Schlageter, who was executed by the French in 1923 after defying French authority in the Ruhr. German-Jewish physicist Albert Einstein criticizes the new Nazi regime.

1936 Hitler Youth declared State Agency.

1939 1,800 Chelm Jews expelled toward Luck. 1,400 Chelm Jews murdered by Wehrmacht troops. 200 Hrubieszow Jews, force marched to Sokal. Many die enroute.

1941 1,200 Stuttgart Jews to Riga. They too will find their way to Rumbuli. Russians counter at Tula. Jaeger Report states that 85% of all Lithuanian Jews have already been murdered. Some 137,366 individual Lithuanian Jews are dead.

“..Today I can confirm that our objective ..to solve ..Jewish problem for Lithuania ..has been achieved by EK 3. In Lithuania there are no more Jews ..apart from Jewish workers and their families. ..distance between ..assembly point to ..graves ..on average 4 to 5 Km.” Karl Jaeger.

1942 400 Karczew Jews murdered.

December 2nd.

1939 First use of gas vans to eliminate mental patients.

1942 1,000 Plonsk Jews murdered Birkenau.

1959 Kurt Franz, former Treblinka Camp Kommandant is arrested.

December 3rd.

1932 General Kurt von Schleicher appointed Chancellor.

1938 Jews lose their Driving Licenses. Jewish industrial enterprises and businesses expropriated under compulsory purchase orders. Jews being wholly diminished in the German economy.

December 4th.

1941 2,500 Gorodenka Jews murdered.

1942 Jewish Aid Council ‘Zegota’ established.

1947 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Case Number 3, The Justice Trial concludes. Ten defendants, officials in the Reich Ministry of Justice and Judges of the People’s and Special Courts are convicted. Four are acquitted and One is declared a mis-trial. One defendant died before the verdict was given. Benedict Wein, a priest from Amberg prison, testifies for the prosecution in this Case.

December 5th.

1939 Jewish property in Poland seized.

1941 First truck transports of Jews are delivered to Chelmno Death Camp. Hitler halts Moscow offensive.

December 6th.

1938 Nonaggression pact between Germany and France signed.

1939 Britain admonishes Bulgarian Government over its transit policy for Jews fleeing to Palestine.

1941 1,000,000 Russian Troops counter attack outside Moscow.

1943 Over 200 Jews from Milan and Verona to Auschwitz.

1944 The Kasztner Jews reach Switzerland.

December 7th.

1924 Nazis lose 50% of their votes in Reichstag Elections.

1941 Chelmno Death Camp’s Extermination operations begin. 700 Kolo Jews are 1st. Victims at Chelmno. They are gassed and confined to eternity here at Chelmno. Remaining Riga Ghetto Jews murdered in Rumbuli Forest. Japan attacks US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. Roosevelt declares war on Japan. Night and Fog Decree,’Nacht und Nebel’ issued by Hitler, cloaking a right to kill policy.

December 8th.

1941 4,000 Novogrudok Jews murdered. 2,300 Jews murdered at Chelmno. Chelmno introduces ‘gassing vans’ to murder the Jews expelled here. Remaining Jews of Belgrade ordered to report for ‘resettlement.’ Final stages of Riga Jewish murders in Rumbuli reached. Japan declares War on America and Britain. Britain and the Commonwealth declare war on Japan.

1942 1,250 Rohatyn Jews murdered. Rabbi Wise meets with President Roosevelt to discuss plight of European Jewry.

“..Already almost 2,000,000 Jews ..Men ..Women ..Children ..have been cruelly done to death ..5,000,000 more Jews live under ..threat of a similar doom.” Maurice Wertheim, Rabbi Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Henry Monsky, Adolph Held, Israel Goldstein and Rabbi Israel Rosenberg.

1944 Bulgaria declares War upon Germany.

1947 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Case Number 10, The Krupp Case, begins. Alfred Krupp and Eleven other defendants, all members of the Krupp Industrial Group, are charged with Human enslavement and other war crimes. They are also charged in connection with the plundering of public and private property.

December 9th.

1941 25,000 Latvian Jews murdered in the Rumbuli Forest in a 3 day operation. More than 38,000 Jews will be murdered here. Wannsee Conference postponed.

1946 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Case Number 1, The Medical Doctors Case begins. Twenty Three Nazi physicians are charged with conducting inhuman experiments on German civilians and nationals of other countries. The experiments ranged from studying the effects of high altitude and malaria to sterilization.

December 10th.

1940 Himmler convenes meeting of Higher Nazi officials and Gauleiters in Berlin to discuss the population transfer plan. This was still a territorial consideration for The Jewish People!

“..By resettling ..Jews out of ..European economic area to a yet to be determined territory. In ..framework of this ..5,800,000 Jews will be affected.” Adolf Eichmann.

1942 1st. Transport of German Jews arrives at Auschwitz. Polish Government in Exile asks Allies to retaliate for Nazi murders.

1943 Jews of Lippstadt are ordered out of their homes.

December 11th.

1939 All Jews in Poland must seek permission to change address.

1941 Germany and Italy declare war on America. America declares war on Germany and Italy. Lutsk Ghetto established. 18,000 Jews Enclosed.

1943 Red Cross visits Romanian Jews deported to Transniestria.

December 12th.

1938 Neuengamme Concentration Camp opens. $400,000,000 fine levied against German Jews for Kristallnacht destruction.

1939 Jewish males aged 14 to 60 subject forced labour and to do 2 years service in Eastern Germany. Jews expelled from Kalisz.

1940 The Salvador sinks killing 200 Jewish refugees. 70 of them are children.

1941 Hitler discusses the complete annihilation of European Jewry with some fifty of his Reich leadership. In his private rooms, Hitler spoke in lieu of The Wannsee Conference of what he expected would inmplicate all levels of Reich Admisistration in the completion of The Holocaust. Baranovichi Ghetto, Poland established. 10,000 Jews Enclosed.

1942 2,000 Czerwinsk Jews murdered. Jewish Resistance at Lutsk crushed. More than 15,000 Lutsk Jews were eventually murdered.

December 13th.

1941 14,000 Simferopol Jews murdered in 3 day period. Remaining 6 Jews of Warendorf deported to Riga and murdered. Hungary and Bulgaria declare War on America.

1943 Jews of Lippstadt are ‘resettled’ to Riga. Rumbuli awaits them.

1945 The prosecution introduces grissly evidence from Buechenwald concentration camp. Items include tattoed human skin (favoured by the commandant’s wife for use in tablelamps and other household furnishings) and the head of an executed Pole used as a paperweight by Commandant Karl Koch.

December 14th.

1937 Gypsy ‘inveterate criminals’ decree. 1,000 year Reich announced at Nuremberg Rally. Ferenc Szalasi establishes Arrow Cross in Hungary. Adolf Eichmann visits Palestine. (September. Adolf Eichmann visited Palestine to assess the expelling of more German Jews.) First issue of The Jewish Question ‘Die Judenfrage’ is published in Germany. Edited by Georg Haller. Poland investigates the possibility of deporting resident Jews to Madagascar. ‘The Madagascar Plan’ is first mooted. Throughout the 1930’s, up till the end of 1937, more than 200,000 handicapped and disabled Germans are ‘Sterilised’ as part of a ‘eugenics’ plan. Of the over 8,800 Jews who managed to flee Poland, over 2,800 of them manage to reach Palestine.

1938 Goering is given charge of die Endlosung der Judenfrage, ‘The Jewish Question.’

1941 Kharkov Ghetto, Ukraine established. 21,000 Jews Enclosed.

1943 200 Drohobycz Jews murdered.

December 15th.

1939 It is Decreed that Jewish Forced Labour be ‘free’ to German interests.

1941 Jews to receive no inducement for extra hours work demanded.

1943 Over 2,500 Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. First trial of German war criminals in Kharkov.

December 16th.

1941 Some 3,000 of Liepaja’s (Libau) Jews were murdered in a 2 day operation on the beaches of Skeden. This ‘Dezember-Aktionen’ December Action watched by scores of Wehrmacht personnel, Civilians and a motley crew of mawkish observers. Entire action was photographed. 3,500,000 Jews now governed by Hans Frank, according to his own diary entry. Frank fully informs his associates of Hitler’s intentions for the Jewish People.

1944 Battle of the Bulge.

December 17th.

1940 Piotrkow Ghetto struck by typhus.

1942 Baranovichi Ghetto Liquidated. 3,000 Jews murdered. Allies condemn extermination of the Jews. Pledge by America, Belgium, Britain, Czechoslovakia, French National Committee, Greece, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Russia and Yugoslavia to officially condemn and punish the Nazis:

“..bestial policy of cold blooded extermination.”

1944 Waffen SS murder of 81 American POWs, Malmedy.

December 18th.

1939 All Jewish valuables to be declared in Poland.

1942 Pope Pius XII does not see that his silence is highly damning to the Holy See.

1943 Over 2,500 Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz.

1945 The prosecution begin introducing evidence to prove the criminality of seven German organizations: the Nazi party leadership, the German High Command, the SS, the SA, the SD, the Reich Cabinet, and the Gestapo.

December 19th.

1941 General Walther von Brauchitsch dismissed. Hitler is Commander in Chief Wehrmacht.

1942 3,000 Dworzec Jews murdered after Resisting. Over 560 Jews murdered in Rakow Forest.

1943 First trial of German war criminals in Kharkov ends.

December 20th.

1924 Hitler released from prison.

1939 Radomsko Ghetto, Poland established. 18,500 Jews Enclosed.

December 21st.

1941 Over the coming 4 weeks, the Massacre of the Jews from Bogdanovka Camp begins.

December 22nd.

1941 Over 32,000 Vilna Jews have been murdered. 1,000 Zablotov Jews murdered.

1947 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Case Number 5 ends. Three defendants, including Flick, are convicted and sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment. Three are acquitted.

December 23rd.

1942 Jewish Resistance in Cracow.

1943 End of Red Cross mission to Transniestria.

December 24th.

1938 Leading American clergy come together to issue a resolution protesting at ‘Kristallnacht’.

December 27th.

1936 Non-intervention agreement between Britain and France abandons Spain. Spain provides the proving ground for Hitler’s future ‘blitzkrieg’ tactics. The Spanish Civil War will rage for 3 years.

1941 Knowledge of ‘gassing van’ operations at Chelmno reaches Izbica Lubelska.

December 28th.

1942 Dr. Carl Clauberg begins his sterilization ‘experiments’ at Auschwitz.

1944 Russians besiege Budapest.

December 29th.

1940 Glowno Ghetto, Poland, established. 3,000 Jews Enclosed.

Wednesday, 29th. December. “..I have not enough faith in God. ..only thing to do is to pray that God will ..save some of them.” Anne Frank.

December 30th.

1939 1,210 refugee Jews aboard the Uranus prevented from going on to Palestine. Over the past 6 years more than 1,400 individual anti-Jewish measures are enacted in Germany alone.

1941 Over 50,000 Jews at Bogdanovka murdered in 10 day period. 10,000 Jews in Simferopol murdered.

1942 Pope Pius XII remarks upon atrocities against Jews as ‘propaganda exaggerations’

December 31st.

1930 ‘Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt’ or RuSHA is established as the Nazi Racial Research Office.

1935 All remaining Jews in Germany’s Civil Service are dismissed.

1941 Jewish Armed Resistance being prepared in Vilna. A report is sent to SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Dr. Fritz Dietrich, Police commander for Libau area, that 2,731 Jews of Libau have been murdered on the beaches of Skeden.

“..Ponar is not a ..Camp. Jews ..shot there. Hitler plans to destroy all ..Jews of Europe ..Jews of Lithuania ..first in line. ..We must not go like sheep to ..slaughter!” Abba Kovner.

1942 More than 2,000,000 Jews already murdered in Death Camps. Einsatzgruppe and Police Battalions have added more to this figure? Dachau Concentration Camp have Gas Chamber and Crematorium installed. A concentration camp is established at Riga. Labour Camp attached to Vilna Ghetto.

November.

November 1st.

1935 Reich Citizenship Law additionally disqualifies Jews from German citizenship.

1941 Belzec Death Camp, is now under construction and becomes part of the Aktion Reinhard Camp system. Theresienstadt Ghetto suggested as a showcase Ghetto. Grodno Ghetto established. 20,000 Jews Enclosed.

“..God fearing representatives of ..Catholic Lithuanian nation liquidated four truckloads of Jews. ..All Saints Day. ..did not disturb ..executions.” Kazimierz Sakowicz.

1942 First deportation from Bialystok District to Treblinka. Commencement of deportation of Plonsk’s Jews to Auschwitz.

1943 Rudolf Hoess leaves Auschwitz.

November 2nd.

1938 Hitler awards parts of Czechoslovakia to Hungary and Italy in violation of the ‘Munich Pact’.

1942 Over 100,000 Jews in the Bialystok Region held in Camps at: Bogusze, Keilbasin, Volkovysk and, Zambrow. Eventually, Bialystok Jews deported to Auschwitz and Treblinka. 6,000 Siemiatycze Jews deported. 4,300 Bilgoraj Jews murdered at Belzec. 2,500 Zolochev Jews murdered at Belzec. 2,000 Ostryna Jews murdered in Birkenau. Further action against 2,000 Jews of Izbica Lubelska. Barely a handful of Izbica Jews remain. Izbica Lubelska declared ‘Judenrien’.

1944 Last gassings at Auschwitz. Deportations from Budapest resume. 50,000 Budapest Jews are evacuated toward Vienna. 10,000 of these are murdered as a result of their incapacity, or failure to move.

November 3rd.

1941 1,535 Lazdijai Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered.

“..Kiev. ..thought ..action would only involve 5,000 ..6,000 Jews ..more than 30,000 Jews reported.” OSR No. 128.

1942 7,000 Tomaszow Mazowiecki Jews murdered at Treblinka. 4,000 Radoszyce Jews murdered at Treblinka.

1943 Operation Harvest Festival, ‘Erntefest’ begins. Majdanek Death Camp is being liquidated. 18,400 Jews are murdered in ‘Erntefest.’ Lublin’s Lipowa Street Camp liquidated. 2,500 Jews murdered.

1944 Russians occupy two thirds of Hungary. Russians nearing Budapest.

1947 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Case Number 4 ends. Fifteen defendants are convicted of their crimes, Three defendants are sentenced to death, including Pohl, and the remainder receive varying prison terms. 3 defendants are acquitted.

November 4th.

1921 ‘StormAbteilungen,’ the Stormtroopers or SA is formed.

1940 Jewish Civil Servants dismissed in Holland.

1941 Lodz Ghetto deportations completed. Over 20,000 German Jews already deported there.

1942 1,000 Brzezany Jews murdered at Belzec.

1943 Trawniki Camp liquidated. 8,000 Jews murdered in ‘Erntefest.’ Over 2,800 Jews from Szebnie Labour Camp to Auschwitz.

November 5th.

1937 Hitler hosts Hossbach Conference. This was the convening of a War Cabinet. Minutes were taken by Colonel Friedrich Hossbach, Hitler’s Military Adjutant. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, General Werner Freiherr von Fritzsche, Hermann Goering, Constantin Freiherr von Neurath and Admiral Erich Raeder in attendance.

1942 3,000 Skarzysko-Kamienne Jews murdered at Treblinka. 400 Skarzysko-Kamienne Jewish Elderly and Children are murdered. 745 Elderly Jews from Paris murdered in Birkenau. Europa Rescue Plan. Rommel defeated at El Alamein.

1943 Poniatowa Camp liquidated. 14,000 Jews murdered, in ‘Erntefest.’ Unlike Babi Yar, which denotes the single most concentrated action against Jews in a single geographical area, ‘Erntefest’ specified a single action which amounted to a colossal account of more than 42,500 Jews murdered under a single banner action! 1,500 Jews from Krychow Labour Camp murdered.

1944 British troops in Salonika.

November 6th.

1932 Nazis secure 33.1% share of the popular vote with 196 seats in Final democratic Reichstag Election. They are down 34 seats, losing over 2,000,000 votes and over 4% of the popular vote.

1941 15,000 Kovno Jews murdered. 1,341 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Heydrich reminds Quartermaster General Wagner of his role in Jewish Question. This is an acknowledgement that ‘The Final Solution’ is to be resolved.

“..I have been entrusted for years with ..task of preparing ..final solution of ..Jewish Question.” Reinhard Heydrich.

1942 Over 170,000 Jews murdered in 6 day period at Belzec, Birkenau and Treblinka.

1943 500 Jews from Szebnie Labour Camp murdered. Russians retake Kiev. More than 150,000 Kievan Jews were murdered.

November 7th.

1938 Herschel Grynszpan shoots German Embassy official, Ernst vom Rath, over treatment of his Family at Zbaszyn.

1939 Mass resettlement of Jews from Western Poland.

1941 20,000 Bobruisk Jews murdered. Eventually, some 35,000 Jews will be murdered from here. 13,000 Jews from Minsk murdered in Tuchinka Forest.

1942 4,500 Konskie Jews murdered at Treblinka. 3,000 Lukow Jews murdered. 1,500 Miedzyrzec Jews murdered at Treblinka. 1,000 Jews in Drancy sent to Auschwitz.

1944 Russian forces at Lake Balaton.

November 8th.

1923 Hitler’s Munich Putsch fails.

1937 The Eternal Jew, ‘der Ewige Jude’ exhibition opens in Munich.

1941 Over 17,000 Rovno Jews murdered in Sosenki Forest in 2 day period. Chelmno (Kulmhof) Death Camp is established by Christian Wirth, Inspector of Death Camps. Dr. Irmfried Eberl, is Chelmno’s first Kommandant. Chelmno lies in close proximity to Lodz in the Warthegau. Lvov Ghetto established.

1942 1,000 Zbaraz Jews murdered at Belzec. American and Allied Forces land in North Africa.

1944 Eichmann has deported 50,000 Jews from Budapest to Buchenwald, Ravensbrueck and toward Vienna in Austria. 10,000 of these are murdered en-route.

November 9th.

1918 World War I ends.

1938 Ernst vom Rath dies. Hitler authorizes Goering to deal with all Jewish political issues. Night of Broken Glass, ‘Kristallnacht’, orchestrated throughout Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland. Over 200 synagogues ransacked and destroyed. 7,500 Jewish Shops looted. Over 50,000 Jews removed to Concentration Camps at Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. Over 240 Jews are killed. Hitler now endorses Madagascar Plan.

1939 Lodz incorporated into Reich.

1942 4,000 Piaski Jews murdered at Majdanek. 1,100 Skalat Jews murdered at Belzec.

November 10th.

1937 Hossbach Memorandum, ‘Hossbach Niederschrift.’ Hitler informs his High Command of his plans to dominate Europe Militarily and Racially.

1938 Nuremberg Rally when 100,000 Germans celebrate success of ‘Kristallnacht.’ Italy adopts anti-Semitic racial laws.

1942 6,300 Mlawa Jews murdered at Treblinka.

November 11th.

1918 Armistice signed at Compiegne. The end of World War One.

1923 Hitler imprisoned in Landsberg.

1938 Bratislava, Slovakia Jews are killed during a pogrom. Heydrich report to Goering lists numbers in ‘protective custody’ after ‘Kristallnacht’.

1939 Lodz Ghetto Judenrat ordered to meet. 600 Ostrow Mazowiecki Jews murdered by Wehrmacht.

1940 Warsaw Ghetto is official.

1942 5,000 Slutsk Jews murdered. 1,060 Greek Jews in Paris deported to Auschwitz. 1,000 Leczna Jews murdered at Majdanek. Wehrmacht occupies Vichy. Italians occupy Nice.

1943 300 Theresienstadt Jews die during roll call.

November 12th.

1918 Friedrich Ebert proclaims aims of new Germany.

1932 Schacht is set to ensure the Reich belongs to Hitler.

1933 Nazis secure 93% of votes in a rigged Reichstag Election with only Nazi Party candidates permitted.

1938 Goering Conference discusses 1,000,000,000 Reichsmarks fine to be applied to German Jews for cost of ‘Kristallnacht’. German Insurers pay out a total of 10,000,000RM to the Reich. Goering toys with idea of removing Heydrich and Gestapo from Jewish ‘evacuation’-cum-’emigration’ programme. Reinhard Heydrich proposes ‘Jewish Badge.’ Hitler does not wish to see Jews so marked just yet, as a precursor to their being expelled from all of German society. Heydrich proposes a German equivalent of Eichmann’s Vienna model for the expulsion of Jews from Germany. Joseph Goebbels urges Jews are kept from public parks. Jews not allowed to attend concerts, cultural events or movies.

1939 Shield of David, ‘Mogen David’ to be worn by Lodz Jews. Heydrich orders removal of all Jews from Warthegau.

November 13th.

1942 2,500 Wlodzimierz Wolynski Jews murdered after Resisting.

1944 The Budapest Ghetto, Hungary is established. 70,000 Jews are Enclosed. This is the last Nazi Ghetto to be created.

November 14th.

1935 The First decree for the National Law of Citizenship is established. Jews denied voting rights. Jews forbidden to hold public office. All Jewish civil service employees discharged, including WWI veterans. Definition of whole ‘Jews’ declares, for the first time, that anyone who has two Jewish grandparents and is a member of the Jewish religious community, and anyone with three or more Jewish grandparents is a Jew. The ‘Mischlinge,’ Jew or mixed race or part Jew is also designated. There are between 250,000 and 500,000 Germans who are categorised as Mischlinge. The First decree for the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour is established. Marriage between Jews and non­-Jews prohibited. Jewish children not allowed facilities of playgrounds. Jewish Children denied use of ‘aryan’ lockers in all establishments.November 24th. 1933 German Law against ‘Habitual and Dangerous Criminals’ allows compulsory castration of ‘hereditary’ criminals. Albert Einstein leaves Germany and settles in America.

1939 Kalisz Jews to wear Yellow Star.

1941 9,000 Slonim Jews murdered at Czepielow. All Protectorate Jews arriving in Riga and Minsk, shot upon arrival.

1942 500 Makow Jews murdered at Treblinka.

November 15th.

1935 German Churches supply Nazis with Baptismal details. This is a collaborative effort to identify the Jewish Community.

1938 Jewish Children expelled from all German Schools.

1939 Estate commission ‘Fideikommissariat’ established to plunder Jewish businesses in Poland. Nazis commence destruction of all Synagogues in Lodz. Russians return expelled Jews into German territory.

1940 Warsaw Ghetto sealed. Wolomin Ghetto, Poland established. 3,000 Jews Enclosed.

1941 115 Wilkowiski Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Wehrmacht held outside Moscow.

1942 4,000 Zamosc Jews murdered at Belzec. Zamosc declared ‘Judenrein’. More than 12,500 Zamosc Jews were murdered. 3,000 Tarnow Jews murdered.

1943 Over 1,100 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.

November 16th.

1941 Goebbels repeats, in Das Reich, Hitler’s prophecy if Jews were to start a world war.

1943 Over 990 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.

November 17th.

1937 Britain appeases Hitler over Sudetenland.

1943 Jewish partisans liberate Jews in Borshchev.

November 18th.

1936 German Condor Legion joins with Franco’s Fascists in Spain.

1938 Hitler declares that Jewish Capital in Germany belongs to the German people. American Virgin Islands offered as a haven for Jewish refugees. Never ratified by America.

1939 Cracow Jews ordered to wear ‘Star of David’ armband. All Jewish Bank Accounts in Poland Frozen.

“..all Jews will bear ..armbands with ..’Shield of David’ as ..identification.” Hans Frank.

1940 All Jewish Cooperatives banned in Poland.

1941 Rosenberg notifies the German Press of the ongoing ‘final solution’ and that its resolve could only be accomplished by the ‘biological extermination of all the Jews of Europe.’

1942 5,000 Lvov Jews murdered at Belzec. 4,000 Przemysl Jews murdered at Belzec. Lvov Ghetto becomes a Labour Camp.

1943 Heaviest Air Raid by RAF on Berlin.

1944 American troops have crossed German Border.

November 19th.

1941 171 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered.

1942 2,700 Wyszogrod Jews murdered at Treblinka. Russia counterattacks at Stalingrad.

“..I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into ..hands of ..cruelest brutes that walk ..earth. ..all because they are Jews.” Anne Frank.

1943 Janowska Camp Lvov Uprising. Some 80,000 Jews were murdered here.

November 20th.

1941 7,000 Minsk Jews murdered in Tuchinka Forest. More than 25,000 Jews were murdered in the Tuchinka Forest. Dr. Friedrich Mennecke conducts experiments on 850 Women at Ravensbrueck.

1942 120 Wisznice Jews murdered.

1943 British 8th. Army crosses Sangro.

1944 The Nuremberg Trials of Major War Criminals, begin. The trial of the major war criminals by the International Military Tribunal begins at 10 a.m. in Nuremberg, Germany.

November 21st.

1938 Objections to German ‘Persecution of Minorities’ raised by Britain’s Parliament.

1942 4,000 Suchedniow Jews murdered at Treblinka. 1,500 Szczekociny Jews murdered.

1944 The defendants enter their pleas of “Not Guilty.” Goering tries to make a statement, but is prevented by the Court from doing so. Justice Robert Jackson delivers his opening statement for the prosecution.

November 22nd.

1942 2,500 Zolkiew Jews murdered at Belzec. The Judenrat at Zolkiew had been Chaired by one Leon Feldhandler, a leader of the Uprising at Sobibor. 200 Serokomia Jews murdered. Russian counter offensive begins.

1943 Cairo Conference begins.

November 23rd.

1939 Jews in General Government must wear the Jewish Badge.

“..I must in all modesty say that my own person is indispensable. Neither a military nor a civilian personality could replace me…. I am convinced of the strength of my brain and my resolution . ..fate of ..Reich ..dependent entirely upon me.” Adolf Hitler.

1941 Over 29,000 Odessa Jews murdered. 1,500 Poltova Jews murdered.

1942 10,000 Szydlowiec Jews murdered at Treblinka.

November 24th.

1938 Palestine will not be considered a primary refuge for Jews, Churchill decides.

1940 Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis.

1942 Rabbi Wise releases Riegner Report at Press Conference. This provides confirmation that Europe’s Jews are being slaughtered by the Nazis.

November 25th.

1936 Anti-Comintern Pact signed by Germany and Japan in order to forestall Russian interests.

1937 Military pact between Germany and Japan signed .

1938 500 Concentration Camp inmates delivered to Furstenburg. Construction of the Women’s Camp Ravensbrueck.

1939 Jews in Poland must have properties outwardly identifiable.

1940 Patria sunk. 250 of 2,000 Jewish refugees killed.

1941 2,934 Jewish Men, Women and Children of Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt murdered at Kovno’s Fort IX. 64 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. All Jewish assets to be seized upon deportation.

1942 Jews deported from Bergen to Auschwitz.

1944 Birkenau ceases its operations.

November 26th.

1942 All Reich Jewish Armaments workers to be replaced by Poles.

1944 Himmler orders destruction of the Birkenau crematorium.

November 27th.

1933 Strength through Joy ‘Kraft durch Freude’ or KdF is established to ensure that all leisure activities of the German people, ‘der Truer Volk’ exist to promote only the aims of the Nazi Party. A Transfer Company is established in Tel Aviv to facilitate the immigration of German Jews and the transfer of their property.

1936 Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister, censors all Film Critique.

1941 Over 10,000 Riga Jews murdered in Rumbuli Forest. Many of these are from 19 transports of German Jews. In Czechoslovakia, Theresiendstadt, or Terezin (its German name) is established as the model ghetto.

1942 2,750 Buczacz Jews murdered at Belzec. 2,000 Tlumacz Jews murdered at Belzec.

“..Polish Jews are being exterminated together with Jews from other occupied countries. ..transported on Polish territory.” Stanislaw Mikolajczyk.

1943 Birkenau Crematorium blown up.

November 28th.

1940 The Film, The Eternal Jew, ‘Der Ewige Jude,’ is premiered in Berlin.

1941 Hitler meets Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini appraised on ‘Final Solution’ and offers Arab support.

“..sole German objective in ..region will be to liquidate all Jews who live in Arab countries under ..patronage of Great Britain.” Adolf Hitler.

1942 2,500 Mosciska Jews murdered at Belzec.

1943 Teheran Conference between, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin begins.

November 29th.

1936 Democracy, Liberalism invented by Jews, so declares Walther Darre, German Minister of Agriculture.

1939 Himmler orders death penalty for German Jews refusing deportation.

1941 3,500 Borislav Jews murdered. 2,000 Jewish Men, Women and Children of Vienna and Breslau murdered at Kovno’s Fort IX. 18 Kovno Jewish Men and Women murdered at Fort IX. Wannsee Conference date set. SS Standartenfuhrer Karl Jaeger signed off on a document we know today as the Jaeger Report in which he and his Einsatzkommando 3 murdered a Total of 137,346 Lithuanians, mostly Jews.

1944 The prosecution introduces a film shot by Allied photographers in liberated areas. The graphic footage of Nazi horrors causes weeping in the courtroom. Some defendants appeared shocked by what they see; others seem bored.

November 30th.

1938 Decree disallowing Jewish Lawyers’ ability to practice comes into force, they can only act as Jewish Consultants.

1939 Russia invades Finland. Lipowa Concentration Camp established in Lublin.

1941 Riga Ghetto is liquidated, the so called ‘largeaktion’. 30,000 Riga Jews murdered at Rumbuli Forest. Amongst these Jews of the ‘largeaktion’ are German Jews. Chelmno Death Camp opens for the murders of local Jews in the ‘gassing vans.’ 5,000 Novogrudok Jews murdered. Over 19,000 Odessa Jews were murdered in Camps and killing sites throughout Transnistria. Atmicetka, where some 5,000 Jews will be murdered. The killing site at Bogdanovka, where some 48,000 Jews will be murdered. Dumanovka, where some 18,000 Jews will be murdered. Vertugen, where some 23,000 Jews will be murdered. Lvov Ghetto established. Moscow free of Wehrmacht threat.

1942 Over 50,000 Polish Jews murdered at Belzec, Majdanek and Treblinka in 3 week period.

“..end ..November 1940 ..8,000 ..were at ..Oswiecim camps. ..political prisoners ..criminal ..Jews. This last group ..persecuted most of all. Scarcely any of them came out alive. ..death notices. ..received. ..December 20,260 ..were sent. ..200 bodies ..being burned in ..crematorium each week.” Polish Fortnightly Review.

Chronology

October 1st.

1934 Hitler orders secret expansion of army, navy and the creation of an air force, all in contravention of the Versailles Treaty.

1936 Mandatory oath of allegiance to Hitler taken by Criminal Court Judges in Berlin.

1939 Poland’s exiled Government set up in France.

1940 Ransomed Jews are returned from Belzec Camp.

1942 10,000 Lubomil Jews murdered. 4,000 Lukow Jews murdered at Treblinka.

1943 500 Danish Jews deported to Theresienstadt. American 5th. Army take Naples.

1946 Judgement on Major War Criminals at Nuremberg is completed. The verdicts against the major war criminals are handed down by the International Military Tribunal. Eleven of the twenty-one defendants are sentenced to death.

October 2nd.

1939 Warsaw surrenders to Germans.

1941 3,000 Vilna Jews murdered in Ponary Woods. 2,236 Zagare Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Einsatzkommando 3 takes over Schaulen area from Einsatzkommando ‘2’, Dr. Rudolf Lange. Gestapo, in collaboration with French extremists, set of explosions in several Paris Synagogue’s. Moscow is continued target for Hitler. Himmler arrives in Kiev. Did Himmler see the Babi Yar massacre for himself?

“..Chief of ..Security Police and ..Security Service Berlin ..October 2 ..1941 ..48 copies ..36th. copy ..Einsatzgruppe C Location ..Kiev ..Sonderkommando 4a in collaboration with Einsatzgruppe HQ and two Kommandos of police regiment South ..executed 33,771 Jews in Kiev on September 29 and 30 ..1941.” Operational Situation Report USSR No. 101

1942 11,000 Bielsk Podlaski Jews murdered. 4,000 Sobienne Jeziory Jews murdered at Treblinka. 3,900 Radzymin Jews murdered at Treblinka. Over 1,000 Dutch Jews murdered at Birkenau.

1943 Danish Jewry has been largely saved. 475 Jews are caught.

October 3rd.

1935 Italy invades Ethiopia.

1940 Vichy Government passes anti-Semitic, ‘Statut des Juifs’ legislation.

1941 All Reich Jews for Forced Labor.

1942 Warsaw was fast approaching a murderous milestone. 310,000 Warsaw Jews murdered at Treblinka. 4,500 Kolomyja Jews murdered at Belzec. 3,000 Wislica Jews murdered at Treblinka. Evidence reaches Pope Pius XII of gassing of Jews.

1943 Dutch Jewish Families are deported to Westerbork. The Moscow Declaration. All German Officers and Nazi Officials to be returned to where their place of atrocity and crimes are committed.

1944 Polish uprising in Warsaw crushed.

October 4th.

1933 Editor Law excludes use of Jewish editors.

1939 Hitler views Warsaw.

1941 1,983 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 1,845 Kovno Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered at Fort IX. Kovno Jewish Hospital set on fire. All patients burned alive. Heydrich conference on future Jewish deportations. Rivalry exists between all Reich Arms, but Heydrich is perplexed by continuing role of Alfred Rosenberg’s Ministry of Eastern Territories.

1942 2,400 Wolomin Jews murdered Treblinka. 1,000 Ludwisin Jews murdered Treblinka. German Concentration Camps to expel all Jews toward Auschwitz.

1943 Himmler delivered his Poznan Speech.

“..I ..mention ..subject ..never speak ..in public. ..extermination of ..Jewish people. ..Jewish people ..being exterminated ..eliminating ..Jews ..exterminating them ..a small matter. ..page of glory never mentioned ..never to be mentioned.” Heinrich Himmler.

October 5th.

1938 ‘J’ stamp agreement places this mark on German Jewish Passports. Idea of Heinrich Rothmund.

1941 Dr. Viktor Brack devises poison-gas program for resolution of ‘The Jewish Question.’

1942 40,000 Czestochowa Jews murdered Treblinka. Over 2,000 Dutch Jews murdered Birkenau. 600 Jewish Women from Ravensbrueck reach Birkenau. 1,000 Theresienstadt Jews to Auschwitz.

1943 77 Jews of Theresienstadt murdered.

October 6th.

1939 In a Reichstag Speech, Hitler offers peace terms to Britain and France. Hitler’s clear intention is to persist with his resolve of The Jewish Question, ‘der Judenfrage.’

1941 1,000’s of Dvinsk Jews in Pogulanka Forest. 962 Semiliski Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered.

1942 6,000 Miedzyrzec Jews murdered Treblinka. 1,200 Biala Podlaska Jews murdered Treblinka.

October 7th.

1900 Heinrich Himmler is born.

1934 The Jehovahs Witnesses in Germany declare their political neutrality. Also affirm defiance of Nazi restrictions on the practice of their religion.

1940 Wehrmacht troops enter Romania. Bulgaria enacts Law for Protection of the Nation.

1942 2,000 Lagow Jews murdered Treblinka. 1,600 Koniecpol Jews murdered at Treblinka. UN War Crimes Commission to be set up.

1943 1,000 Parisian Jews from Drancy to Auschwitz.

1944 A Jewish ‘Sonderkommando’ Uprising at Crematorium IV in Auschwitz/Birkenau takes place. The Uprising is immediately crushed.

October 8th.

1939 Piotrkow Trybunalski, in Poland becomes the first Ghetto to be established. 18,000 Jews Enclosed. Zalman Tenenbaum was its Chairman. Pogrom organised against Jews of Lodz. First Volkdeutsch of Latvia resettled to Reich.

1941 Vitebsk Ghetto liquidated. Over 16,000 Vitebsk Jews were murdered.

1942 1,000 Theresienstadt Jews to Auschwitz.

1943 1,000 Parisian Jews from Drancy to Auschwitz.

October 9th.

1941 3,726 Svenciany Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Friedrich Uebelhoer asks for clarity with removal of 100,000 unproductive Lodz Jews.

Friday, 9th. October 1942. “..If it’s that bad in Holland ..what must it be like in those faraway ..uncivilized places where ..Germans are sending them? We assume ..most ..are being murdered.” Anne Frank.

1942 Over 1,700 Dutch Jews murdered Birkenau. More than 13,000 Viennese Jews have been deported to Theresienstadt.

Friday, 9th. October 1942 “..We assume that most of them are murdered. ..British radio speaks of their being gassed. Perhaps that’s the quickest way to die.” Anne Frank.

October 10th.

1939 ‘Generalgouvernement’ in Poland created. All Death Camps in Poland. Czerniakow sets up labour battalions, ‘Arbeitsbataillons.’

1941 Heydrich holds conference in Prague on the ‘resettlement’ of Reich Jews to Riga and Minsk. Theresienstadt ‘Terezin’ Ghetto established. Over 140,000 Jews pass through Theresienstadt. Theresienstadt is One of the Nine Major Ghettoes Established

1942 Over 3,000 Belgian Jews are deported to Auschwitz in 2 week period.

October 11th.

1939 The Final Solution of the Jewish Question in Germany approaches a newer interpretation in a directive from Joseph Burckel’s Office. Einstein and Leo Szilard, Eugene Wagner, and Edward Teller urge Roosevelt forward, and toward the atomic era.

1941 The New York Times reported that an estimated 15,000 Jews had been murdered in Galicia. 1,000’s Edineti Jews are murdered. Czernowitz Ghetto Established.

1942 11,000 Ostrowiec Jews murdered Treblinka.

October 12th.

1937 Grafeneck, ‘euthanasia’, institution under SS management.

1939 Jewish deportation from Austria and Moravia to Poland begins. The Nisko Project. Hans Frank appointed Governor Occupied Poland. Britain rejects Hitler’s peace feeler’s. Stalin threatens Finland.

1940 Hitler postpones plan to invade Britain. A Quarantine area for the Jews of Warsaw is established.

1941 Over 1,000 Stanislawow Jews murdered. 3,000 Sheparovtse Jews murdered. Wehrmacht reaches Moscow. Stalin evacuates parts of the City.

1942 14,000 Radomsko Jews murdered Treblinka in 2 days. Over 1,700 Dutch Jews murdered Birkenau.

1964 First Treblinka Trial at Dusseldorf opens. 10 Officials of Treblinka Death Camp are arraigned before the Court of Assizes.

October 13th.

1939 Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, nearly 70 years old, becomes chairman of the Lodz Judenrate. Others involved in the Judenrate of Lodz were Blemer, Greenberg, S. Jakobson, Naftalin, Leon Rosenblat, David Varshavsky,

1941 15,000 Dnepropetrovsk Jews murdered.

1942 Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto Liquidated.

1943 Italy declares war on Germany. Some 15,000 Italian Jews were murdered.

1944 Riga Liberated.

1946 The Allied Control Council, with the power to reduce or commute sentences, rejects all appeal in the Major War Criminals Trial.

October 14th.

1933 Germany leaves League of Nations talks on disarmament.

1940 In Warsaw, non-Jews make way for Jews.

1941 Deportation decree enacted for German Jews. Deutsche Reichsbann, German Railways begins its deportation programme of the Jewish People. Emergence of ‘cattle wagons’ as a conveyance for human cargo. Resettlement East will find many of the transportees dead upon arrival from Starvation, Thirst, Disease and Neglect.

1942 4,000 Kobryn Jews murdered. Over 10,070 Jews of Kobryn were eventually murdered. Jews in Holland virtually outlawed.

1943 Uprising at Sobibor. Sobibor ceases its operations. Somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 Jews had been murdered at this Aktion Reinhard Death Camp Sobibor.

1945 British representative Sir Geoffrey Lawrence is elected President of the International Military Tribunal (IMT).

October 15th.

1939 Hitler to ‘blitz’ West. SS unit mass murders Piasnica’s detained ‘mentally ill.’

1941 9,000 Jews of Slonim murdered. Deportation of German and Austrian Jews to Lodz Ghetto. Deportation of German and Austrian Jews to Minsk Ghetto. Deportation of German and Austrian Jews to Riga Ghetto.

1942 25,000 Brest-Litovsk Jews murdered after Resistance. 5,000 Zawichost Jews murdered at Belzec. Over 1,900 Theresienstadt Jews to Auschwitz. Izbica Lubelska’s ‘black day’ when some 6,000 to10,000 Jews are removed to Sobibor.

1944 Admiral Horthy announces surrender. Hitler installs Hungarian ‘puppet’ Government. Admiral Horthy arrested by Hitler. Jewish Deportations resume.

1946 Goering commits suicide by swallowing a smuggled cyanide pill.

October 16th.

1939 Warsaw Ghetto established. Over 350,000 Jews are Enclosed. Adam Czerniakow is their Chairman. Others who assist the Ghettoe administration are Jakub Lejkin, Warsaw is One of the Nine Major Ghettoes Established.Cracow, a Jewish centre for over 700 years, is to be capital of Generalgouvernement. More than 11,000 Poles and 5,000 Jews have been murdered since War commenced.

1940 Decree replaces 80,000 Poles of Warsaw with 120,000 Jews. 360,000 Jews now in Warsaw quarantine area.

1941 5,000 Dnepropetrovsk Jews murdered. 1,146 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Wehrmacht occupies Odessa. First Jews are murdered there. First deportation of Western Jews, 1,000 Prague Jews to Lodz Ghetto. A limit is set of 20,000 Protectorate Jews to Lodz. Remainder of Protectorate Jews ‘resettled’ in Riga and Minsk. Upon arrival they are immediately faced with an Einsatz ‘aktionen.’ First deportation of Western Jews to Lublin Ghetto. First deportation of Western Jews to Warsaw Ghetto. Austrian, Czechoslovakian and Luxembourg Jews deported to Lodz Ghetto.

1942 Over 1,000 Jews deported from Rome to Auschwitz.

1946 Ten of the war criminals are hanged in Nuremberg.

“..in a vicious act of Talmudic ‘justice’ ..Julius Streicher was hanged.” Christian Defence League Report.

October 17th.

1939 Hitler indoctrinates Wehrmacht Generals on forthcoming solution of ‘The Jewish Problem’.

1941 Over 19 day period in Minsk and its environs Einsatzkommando ‘3’ acted against the following communities of Bischolin, Bober, Pleschnitza, Scak and Uzda and murdered over 3,031 Jewish Men, Women and Children.

1942 1,600 Jews from Buczacz Jews murdered at Belzec. 10,000 Jews in Buchenwald deported to Auschwitz. Over 4,000 Jews in Sachsenhausen removed to Auschwitz.

October 18th.

1935 The German Law for Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German People is another piece of anti-Semitic legislation.

1942 Hitler issues Commando Order, ‘Kommandobefehl,’ for immediate execution of Allied Special Forces. Gestapo secures jurisdiction over Jews in Reich.

1943 Over 1,000 Jews of Rome deported to Auschwitz

1944 Hitler mobilizes all 16 to 60 year old Men, ‘Volkssturm’.

October 19th.

1939 Lublin Ghetto is established. 100,000 Jews enclosed.

1941 German Foreign Office collaborates in Belgrade Ghetto massacre. Russia declares State of Siege.

1942 Over 1,900 Theresienstadt Jews to Auschwitz.

1943 Globocnik announces end to ‘Aktion Reinhard.’ SS Camp personnel, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka will move to anti-Partisan acions in Adriatic area. Over 1,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.

1945 Indictments are issued against the major war figures. Nuremberg’s assessment is that some 1,500,000 Germans were in such close proximity to the Crimes, they cannot then deny knowledge of what occurred. Of that number, 500,000 were key to the operation of the Nazi Party.

October 20th.

1940 Operation Burckel removes German Jews to French unoccupied border.7,500 German Jews now detained in Gurs Camp. These were Jews from Baden, Paltinate and the Saar region.

1941 8,000 Borisov Jews murdered in 3 day operation. First deportations from Reich to Lodz decreed. Wehrmacht takes Bryansk.

1942 12,000 Jews at Bar are murdered.

1943 United Nations War Crimes Commission established at Moscow Conference.

1944 Polish nationals attack and murder Jewish Survivors.Russians, with Tito’s partisans, enter Belgrade.

1947 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Case Number 8, The RuSHA Case, begins. Fourteen defendants, officials in the Race and Settlement Office and the Office for the Strenghtening of Germandom are charged with varying crimes against humanity. These crimes relate to the murder, deportation and torture of people on political, racial and religious grounds.

October 21st.

1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.

October 21st. Thursday 1937 “..returning Jewish emigrants will be sent to concentration camps.” Heinrich Himmler.

1941 2,367 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 1,500 Koidanov Jews murdered. Hitler delares that his actions in coming days were so secret, the Generals would not be placed in a position to know.

1942 22,000 Piotrkow Trybunalski Jews murdered Treblinka in 6 day operation.

1943 Minsk Ghetto Liquidated. 2,000 Jews murdered.

October 22nd.

1940 More than 10,000 refugee German Jews in France sent to Gurs.These were Jews from Alsace, Heidelberg, Mannheim and Speyer. All Gurs Jews transported to Drancy, enroute to Auschwitz. Jewish businesses in Holland to be registered.

1942 Over 2,000 Theresienstadt Jews to Auschwitz. Sachsenhausen Uprising of Jewish inmates.

October 23rd.

1940 Hitler meets with Franco to seek union.

1941 1,000’s of Kragujevac Jews murdered. Jews of the Greater Reich refused emigration. Hitler talks about the extermination of the Jewish plague.

1942 British forces attack Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s ‘Akrika Korps’ at El Alamein.

1944 Russians are in East Prussia.

October 24th.

1933 Law against ‘Habitual and Dangerous Criminals’ enables alcoholics, beggars, the homeless, the unemployed and vagrants to be incarcerated in Concentration Camps.

1939 Wloclawek Jews required to wear identifying ‘yellow badge.’

1941 20,000 Jews deported to Dalnik.

1942 Remnants of Lidice Community murdered at Mauthausen.

1945 UN officially born.

October 25th.

1929 ‘Black Friday’, The Wall Street crash.

1936 Berlin Rome Axis Treaty signed by Hitler and Mussolini.

1939 Jews of Jaroslav expelled across San into Russian territory.

1940 Cracow directive prohibits exit visas to Jews.

1941 48,000 Odessa Jews murdered in 3 day action. 2,578 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Riga Ghetto is sealed. Jewish Ghetto revolt at Tatarsk crushed. All Jews murdered. Hitler declares that he is preceded by a reputation for the extermination of the Jews. Eichmann approves Mobile Gas Van usage. Letter from Alfred Wetzel, of Rosenberg’s Ministry to Heinrich Lohse, Reich Commissar, confirms the fact that Victor Brack had received Eichmann’s endorsement for use of ‘gassing vans.’

1942 400 Oszmiana Jews murdered. Over 200 Oslo Jews deported to Auschwitz.

1943 Russians retake Dnepropetrovsk. Over 50,000 Jews have been murdered here. 15 Survive. 2,000 Lvov Jews murdered at Janowska Camp. 1,700 Bergen-Belsen Jews deported Auschwitz.

1945 Robert Ley, former chief of the German Labor Front and one of the prisoners awaiting trial, commits suicide.

1946 The United States Military Government for Germany establishes Military Tribunal I, which will try twenty-three Nazi physicians in the first of eleven subsequent trials in Nuremberg.

October 26th.

1939 Germany annexes regions of Pomerania, Poznan, Upper Silesia, West Prussia and the City of Danzig. All Polish Men and Women, aged 14 to 60 enslaved, ‘Arbeitspflicht und Zwangsarbeit.’ This defined Forced Labour for those Poles who would receive ‘equitable’ pay, and Jews would have no pay provision. ‘J’ identification Card for Polish Jews. Labor Department of the Generalgouvernement, now established. Ritual slaughter, ‘shechitah’ banned in Poland. Eichmann sets in motion ‘Nisko Reserve’ to resettle 78,000 Jews.

1941 The New York Times carries the story of the massacre of Jews of Kiev. These 33,771 Jews of Kiev have been murdered at Babi-Yar.

1942 Over 1,800 Theresienstadt Jews to Auschwitz. Male Norwegian Jews deported to Auschwitz.

1943 3,000 Kovno Jews murdered at Klooga.

October 27th.

1933 Arabs riot in Palestine to protest against Jewish immigration.

1940 Warsaw Jews restricted to ‘Jew buses.’

1941 1,203 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Jewish Elderly of Kalisz murdered in ‘gassing van.’ Russia counter attacks at Moscow.

1942 3,000 Opoczno Jews murdered Treblinka. Jacob Gens deports elderly from Vilna. 2nd. Sterilization Conference, Nullification of Jewish mixed Marriages, and the planned sterilization of ‘Mixed Marriage Children.’

1943 Globocnik produces a report which shows scale of Operation Reinhard, which he commands!

October 28th.

1938 Germany expels 17,000 Polish Jews to Poland’s border. 8,000 are stranded at Zbaszyn. Not admitted by Poland., Not allowed back by Germany.

Saturday October 28th. 1939 “..We move along ..Earth like men condemned to death.” Chaim Kaplan.

1940 All Polish Jews restricted to 55 containment areas. Belgium passes antisemitic legislation. All Jewish property to be registered. Italy invades Greece. 12,000 Greek Jews resist Italian offensive.

1941 Over 9,000 Kovno Jews murdered at Ninth Fort during the big ‘Aktion.’ Almost half of them were Children. 12 year old Jewish Survivor becomes eye witness to the massacre. 2,000 Lachowicze Jews murdered. Dr. Eduard Wetzel proposes gassing camps for Minsk and Riga. Eventually, gassings will be conducted in many Camps including Dachau, Neuengamme, Ravensbrueck, Sachsenhausen and Stutthuf. Along with the gassing facility’s of the Death Camps, the Jews of Europe will pay an exorbitant and extortionate price with their lives.

1942 10,000 Pinsk Jews murdered. Large Cracow ‘aktion’ over 5,000 Jews murdered at Belzec. Further 600 Cracow Jews are murdered in the Ghetto. Over 50 Polish Ghettoes recognised by decree.

October 29th.

1897 Joseph Goebbels is born.

1938 Last day for Polish Jews to prove their statehood.

1941 9,200 Kovno Ghetto Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered at Fort IX.

1942 After Resistance, over 3,000 Sandomierz Jews murdered Belzec. 6,000 Pinsk Jews have been murdered. Pinsk is ‘Judenrein.’

October 30th.

1939 Himmler plans to clear all Jews out of rural Poland in a 3 month period. Britain publishes critical report of Nazi treatment of Concentration Camp inmates. First ‘Judenrate’ in Jewish ghettos set up by Hans Frank. Hitler’s ‘physicians’ given charge of ‘euthanasia’ program.

1941 4,000 Nesvizh Jews are murdered. 1,553 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. First Bratislava Jews deported. Wehrmacht breech Crimean defenses. Moscow approached.

1942 Over 4,500 Dutch Jews deported to Auschwitz in 2 week exercise.

1943 Moscow Conference ends. Allied statement, The Moscow Declaration, suggests they will act judicially, and without vengeance, in pursuance of all Axis War Criminals:-

“..to ..uttermost ends of ..earth.”

October 31st.

1941 4,000 Kleck Jews murdered.

1942 Over 1,600 Belgian Jews to Auschwitz.

1944 14,000 Slovakian Jews transported to Auschwitz. Plaszow Camp Survivors deported to Auschwitz.

Whatever Hitler has stated regarding the Jewish People, and whatever Himmler, Heydrich, Eichmann or Hoess did in furtherance of what der Fuhrer demanded, The Jews paid with their lives. Today, apologists and deniers all seek to absolve Hitler of his responsibility in The Holocaust. They seek to see Hitler abdicated from all that he promulgated in favour of some non-specific role amidst the maelstrom. What this would achieve, as opposed to what is sought, would be to damn all those Allied Soldiers who fought against him to a seemingly pointless end.

That too will be said of the many German soldiers, for whom God and Country was a sole byeword of their participation in the conflict. Wars are fought on the pretext that one side or the other has God on their side. One or other is justifiably correct in its approach to war. One is even morally obliged to take up the gauntlet and fight for what is considered the rights and wrongs of some injustice or slight.

All Are Implicated.

Hitler’s open aggression, September 1st. 1939 against Poland was an act of War. Britain and France have every moral right and obligation to stand alongside their treaty partners and fight the good fight. Both responded with a Declaration of intent 3rd. September 1939. That Poland was practically abandoned to its fate, thereafter, is an accusation from within History of an assistance which was late coming and all events and destructions were borne out of that failing.

That Hitler now had open access to some 3,000,000 more Jews gave him all the leverage he required to come up with a term that his minions would deliver upon: die Endlosung der Judenfrage, The Final Solution of The Jewish Question was the term and the end result was the Destruction of 6,000,000 Jewish People in The Holocaust. The World must never be allowed to forget that!

Chronology

September 1st.

1939 Germany invades Poland. German troops enter Danzig. 5,000 Jews are trapped in the city. Jewish curfew operates in Germany and Austria. Wehrmacht and SS Mobile Murder Groups, the fledgling ‘Einsatzgruppe,’ set about murdering Jews, burning Synagogues and attacking the Catholic intelligentsia in ‘Operation Tannenberg.’ General Johannes Blaskowitz protests such a murderous crime.

1940 Kovno Jews are issued 3,500 visas by Japanese Consul Sempo Sugihara.

1941 A further 9,000 Hungarian Jews are murdered at Kamanets-Podolsk. 5,090 Mariampole Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Over 2 week period 440 Vilna Jewish Men and Women murdered. Hitler’s ‘Euthanasia Program’ ends, officially. Hitler now proposes that all Jews leave the Reich. Over 120,000 have been murdered in the ‘program.’ Janowska Camp opens. Jews in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovakia must wear ‘The Yellow Star.’

1942 13,500 Wlodzimierz Wolynski Jews murdered at Piatydni gravel pits. 3,000 Stryj Jews murdered.

1943 Vilna Ghetto Uprising fails.

September 2nd.

1930 Hitler assumes role of SA Leader

1939 Stutthof camp established. Britain and France give Hitler ultimatum. Hitler must remove Wehrmacht from Poland.

September 2nd.

1941 Over 5 day period the following communities were struck:- Over 4,800 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children are murdered in Ponary Woods. 1,556 Joanna Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 1,125 Crakes Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 662 Ariogala Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 282 Jasvainai Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 252 Wenziogala Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 247 Carliava Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 144 Jesuas Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 125 Petrasiunai Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 99 Darsuniskis Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 83 Babtei Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered.

1942 8,000 Dzialoszyce Jews murdered at Belzec. 2,000 Dzialoszyce Jews murdered at Dolles Cemetery.

1943 Tarnow Ghetto Liquidated. 5,000 Tarnow Jews to Auschwitz. More than 11,000 Tarnow Jews will be murdered. Przemysl Ghetto Liquidated. 3,500 Przemysl Jews to Auschwitz. 1,000 Jews from Paris to Auschwitz.

1946 The justices meet to discuss verdicts in the Major War Criminals Trial.

September 3rd.

1938 Neville Chamberlain believes he has secured peace with Hitler over Czechoslovakia.

1939 180 Czestochowa Jews murdered. 17 Wieruszow Jews murdered. 4 Lelow Jews murdered. 3 Zdunska Wola Jews murdered. World War II commences when Britain and France, the Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand and India all declare war on Germany. Britain blockades Germany. David Ben-Gurion assures world that 1,500,000 Jews will fight Hitler, 555,000 in American Armed Forces; 500,000 Russia, 243,000 other European Jews and 116,000 Jews from Britain and the Commonwealth.

1941 Vilna Ghetto Established. Over 55,000 Jews are Enclosed. Vilna is One of the Nine Major Ghettos Established. Vilna Judenrate established. Shaul Trotzki, Anatole Fried, then Jakob Gens Chairmen. Zyklon ‘B’ first used in Auschwitz against 250 Jewish Infirm and 600 Russian POW’s. Zyklon ‘B’ proves the method of murder of Millions of Jews in the Death and some Concentration Camps. 600 Elderly Dubossary Jews are then burned to death in 8 Synagogues. 6 Dubossary Jews who refuse to join Jewish Council, publicly hanged.

1942 2,000 Bolechow Jews murdered at Belzec. Jewish Armed Resistance in Lachva. 800 Lachva Jews killed. Treblinka recommences its operations.

1943 Bochnia Ghetto is Liquidated. 3,000 Bochnia Jews to Auschwitz. Belgian Jews deported to Auschwitz. Allies land in Calabria. Italians sign Armistice.

1944 Over 1,000 Dutch Jews from Westerbork Camp to Auschwitz. Brussels liberated.

1965 Treblinka Trial concludes.

September 4th.

1934 Nuremberg Party Congress is staged over the coming six days.

1939 90 Zarki Jews murdered. 80 Zloczew Jews murdered. Over 20 Jews murdered in Kruszyna. 20 Konskie Jews murdered. 13 Sosnowiec Jews murdered. Warsaw cut off by Wehrmacht attack.

1941 1,500 Berdichev Jews murdered. 253 Pravenischkis Jewish Men and Women murdered. 193 Seredsius Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 178 Zapiskis Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 159 Velinona Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 146 Cekiske Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Yakov Guzanyatskii’s Jewish Resistance in Dubossary retaliate. 10 Jewish Females of Vilna, Judith Trojak included, escape from Ponary and report back to Vilna with the evidence of what Ponary means for the Jews.

1942 2,000 Skole Jews murdered. Macedonia’s Jews to wear the Yellow Star. Chaim Rumkowski agrees to the deportation of Lodz’s Jewish Children.

1944 Over 2,000 Dutch Jews from Westerbork Camp to Auschwitz. Antwerp liberated. Barely 5,000 Jews survive. Finland and Russia sign Armistice. Bulgaria surrenders.

September 5th.

1937 Hitler reveals his War aims in secret Chancellery discussion.

1939 24 Ozorkow Jews murdered. Wehrmacht enters Pietrkow Trybunalski.

1940 Germans bring Nuremberg Laws to Luxembourg. All Jewish Business handed to Luxemburgers. Bishop Theophil Wurm objects once more to ‘euthanasia killing.’

1941 4,709 Ukmerge Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Wehrmacht troops occupy Estonia.

1942 500 Zurawno Jews murdered. 500 Zydaczow Jews murdered.

1944 Lodz Ghetto evacuated. Russia declares War on Bulgaria. Sweden denies sanctuary to War Criminals.

1945 Robert Jackson meets with President Truman. Truman proposes naming former attorney general Francis Biddle as the American judge at Nuremberg. Jackson, who does not think highly of Biddle, suggests alternatives, but Biddle gets the appointment.

September 6th.

1938 Pope Pius XII tells pilgrims they must not involve themselves with anti-Semitism.

1939 Wehrmacht occupies Cracow.

1940 Ion Antonescu Governs Romania.

1941 Over 12 day period 843 Rasainiai Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. All 412 Jewish Men, Women and Children of Georgenburg murdered. 70 Zbaraz Jews murdered at Lubienicki Forest. Both Vilna Ghettos established and sealed. 40,000 Jews Enclosed. Hitler issues War Directive No. 35 for the conduct of operations in Russia.

1942 8,000 Wolbrom Jews murdered.

September 7th.

1936 25% tax is imposed on all Jewish assets in Germany.

1939 60 Aleksandrow Jews murdered. 7 Zgierz Jews murdered.

1942 5,000 Kolomyia Jews murdered at Belzec. 1,000 Kolomyia Jews murdered in the Ghetto. Over 3,000 Warsaw Ghetto Jews have been murdered by roaming Nazis.

1943 Over 900 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.

September 8th.

1926 Germany becomes a member of League of Nations.

1933 Second World Jewish Congress held in Geneva.

1939 37 Trzebinia Jews murdered. 30 Ostrow Jews murdered. Wehrmacht occupies Lodz, Radom, and Tarnow.

1941 Leningrad encircled. 900 day siege begins.

1943 Over 5,000 Jews expelled Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. Over 3,400 Moravska Ostrava Jews to Auschwitz. Italy announces its surrender. Germans move to occupy Rome.

1944 First V2 Bomb lands in Britain.

September 9th.

1936 Goering’s 4 Year Plan announced

1941 1,279 Alytus Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 740 Butrimonys Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered.

1942 2,000 Lublin Jews murdered in Majdanek. 1,800 Kislowodsk Jews murdered. Furthest East Jews have been murdered in The Final Solution.

1943 Allies land at Salerno.

1944 Bulgaria and Allies sign Armistice. Some 7,335 Jews from Bulgaria murdered. Paris occupied by French Provisional Government. 75,000 Jews from France have already been murdered.

September 10th.

1939 23 Rawa Mazowiecka Jews murdered. Massacre was witnessed by Leni Riefenstahl. Reported to Hitler. General Franz Halder, of Hitler’s General Staff, noted in his Diary an account of the mass murder of 50 Jews.

1941 6,000 Vilna Jews are murdered in Ponary Woods. 854 Merkine Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 831 Varena Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Full scale offensive against Kiev commences.

1942 8,000 Sanok Jews murdered.

1943 Germans occupy Rome. Germans control Northern Italy.

1944 Russians capture Prague.

September 11th.

1939 560 Ostrow Jews murdered. 12 Karwodrza Jews murdered. Odilo Globocnik appointed HSSPF for Lublin. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris reports knowledge of atrocities to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, OKW.

1940 Quanza refused leave to disembark Jewish refugees in America or Mexico.

1941 7,000 Rudel Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered in the Stasino Gravel Pit at Stolin. 953 Seirijai Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 155 Leipalingis Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered.

1942 7,000 Jews murdered at Stolin. Resistance took place to prevent the eventual Stolin tragedy, but ill equipped and out manoeuvred, Jewish Resistance in Stolin could not prevent the eventual massacre. 5,000 Warsaw Ghetto Jews murdered at Treblinka.

1943 German raids against Nice, France, Jews commence. Family ‘transports’ from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz.

1944 Chaim Weizmann pleads for RAF to bomb approaches to Auschwitz. British troops arrive in Holland.

September 12th.

1938 Jews prevented from attending cultural events.

1939 3 Czermno Jews murdered. Hitler is aboard his Command Train near Ilnau.

1941 3,334 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children are murdered in Ponary Woods. 414 Simnas Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered.

1942 Total of 265,000 Warsaw Jews have been murdered at Treblinka in just 7 weeks. 15,000 Lodz Ghetto Jews murdered in 8 day operation. Abraham Jakob Krzepicki escapes from Treblinka. Ringelblum archive afforded vital evidence. Refugee Jews in Belgium rounded up and held in Mechelen Concentration Camp. Battle of Stalingrad begins.

1944 Allied troops on the German border.

September 13th.

1933 Race theory is to be practised in all German schools.

1937 Jews in ‘protective custody’ can be released if emigrating.

1939 53 Warsaw Jews murdered. 35 Mielec Jews murdered.

1941 11 Piotrkow Judenrate Members murdered. Einsatzgruppe Radio Transmissions stopped.

1942 4,000 Checiny Jews murdered Treblinka. Battle for Stalingrad under way.

1943 Lida Ghetto liquidated. Rumour mounts that Globocnik has been accumulating wealth from his ideological role! Globocnik relieved of his Command, ‘Operation Reinhard.’ Globocnik posted to partisan front in Yugoslavia as HSSPF Adriatic.

1944 Russian forces on Slovak border.

September 14th.

1930 Nazis secure 18.3% of the votes cast. 107 seats in Reichstag Elections. Over 6,400,000 votes gained.

1939 14 Pultusk Jews murdered. 7 Nowe-Miasto Jews murdered. Heydrich announces to his department heads annexation of Poland. Wehrmacht occupies Przemysl.

1941 Berdichev Ghetto Liquidated.

1943 Over 1,000 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz. Vilna Judenrate Chairman, Jacob Gens is murdered by SD.

September 15th.

1935 The Racist Nuremberg Laws are passed. National Citizens Law. Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour. Marriage and extra Marital relations between Jews and ‘aryans’ forbidden. Reich Flag Law. The Swastika is the symbol of the State. All on this National Socialist German Workers Party, NSDAP Day. For European Jewry, ‘Lawlessness’ became the Law promulgated against them. September 17th. 1917 Hitler awarded Bavarian Service Cross.

1938 Neville Chamberlain again meets Hitler over Sudetenland.

1939 14 Mielec Jews murdered. 4 Strzyzow Jews murdered. Wehrmacht occupies Bialystok. Russians administer Town until ‘Operation Barbarossa,’ Hitler’s planned attack upon Russia.

1941 150,000 Jews deported to Transnistria. 90,000 die. 16,873 Berdichev Jews have been murdered. Slovakia adopts Nuremberg Laws. German Jewry must wear Jewish Badge.

1942 1,500 Kamionka Strumilova Jews murdered at Belzec. 1,400 Radziechow Jews murdered. 500 Dobre Jews murdered at Treblinka.

1943 Kovno Ghetto becomes Concentration Camp.

1944 Colonel Murray Bernays, of the War Department’s Special Project Branch, proposes part of the framework that will be used in Nuremberg. Bernays proposes treating the Nazi regime as a criminal plot. William Chanler, a friend of Secretary of War Stinson, suggests another part of the framework: making the waging of a war of aggression a crime.

September 16th.

1939 16 Aleksandrow Jews murdered.

1941 24,000 Uman Jews murdered by Wehrmacht troops. More than 25,412 Uman Jews will be murdered. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel orders reprisal action at a ratio of 100/1.

1942 Final ‘resettlement’ of 55,000 Lodz Jews to Chelmno. 6,000 Jedrzejow Jews murdered Treblinka. Wehrmacht enters Stalingrad.

1943 More than 37,000 Italian Jews were under direct threat from the Germans.

September 17th.

1933 The Central Representative Body of German Jews, ‘Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden’ established. Rabbi Leo Baeck and Otto Hirsch are the representatives of the only official representative body of German Jews.

1939 20 Laskarzew Jews murdered. Russia occupies Eastern Poland.

1940 Hitler postpones ‘Operation Sealion,’ attack on Britain.

1941 3,000 Lomza Jews murdered at Galczyn Forest. Some 1,271 Vilna Jewish Men, Women and Children, and as many as 2,000, are murdered in Ponary Woods. Severe famine hits Kiev.

1944 Attack on Arnhem begins.

September 18th.

1939 Hitler was aboard his Command Train at Gogolin and then moved to the Hotel Cosins at Zoppot.

1941 German Jews being deported.

1942 Reich decree between Himmler and Reich Minister of Justice. Food ration for Jews in Germany reduced. Otto Thierack for Jewish extermination through work policy, ‘Vernichtung durch Arbeit.’

1943 2,000 Minsk Jews murdered at Sobibor. Week long deportation of families from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz completed.

1946 The First part of Emmanuel Ringelblum’s ‘Oneg Shabbat’ is discovered in Warsaw.

September 19th.

1930 Goebbels threatens that any attempt upon Hitler’s life will be met by a ‘pogrom’ against the Jewish Population of Germany.

1939 100 Lukow Jews murdered. Hitler enters Danzig.

1940 Polish women banned from serving in Jewish Homes.

1941 Zhitomir Ghetto liquidated. 10,000 Zhitomir Jews were murdered. Over 27,000 Zhitomir Jews will be murdered. German Jews to wear Jewish Badge. Germans capture Kiev. Advance party of Standartenfuhrer Paul Blobel’s ‘SonderKommando 4a’ arrives in Kiev. Jews of Slovakia, Bohemia and Moravia to wear Yellow Star of David.

1942 3,500 Zamosc Jews murdered.

1943 Sonderkommando 1005 finishes with Babi Yar.

September 20th.

1939 33 Sieradz Jews murdered. 20 Siedlce Jews murdered. Radios owned by Jews in Greater Germany are confiscated.

1940 Hitler orders the go ahead for Operation Barbarossa. The Jewish Question now moves toward a destructive resolve.

1941 1,000’s of Kovno Jews murdered in the synagogue. 403 Nemencing Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered.

1943 Over 1,400 Belgian Jews to Auschwitz.

September 21st.

1938 Britain and France suggests Czechoslovakia accept Hitler’s terms.

1939 Heydrich issues his directive for der Einsatzgruppe to establish Jewish Ghettos under Jewish Council control. Heydrich reaffirms role for Poland.

1941 Sk4a Commander Paul Blobel arrives in Kiev.

1942 48,000 Warsaw Jews murdered Treblinka in 2 week operation. ‘Sonderkommando 1005’ arrived at Birkenau to dispose of the evidence of 107,000 previously buried mass murders.

1943 Over 900 Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.

September 22nd.

1933 The Reich Chamber of Culture ‘Reichkulturkammergesetz,’ is established. Reich’s Culture Ministry Law: Exclusion of Jewish writers and artists. German Jews are banned from the fields of journalism, art, literature, music, broadcasting, entertainment mediums and the theatre. Law banning Jews from the provision of art, broadcasting, entertainment, journalism, literature and music.

1938 Neville Chamberlain meets with Hitler.

1939 Reich Main Security Office ‘Reichssicherheitshauptamt’ RSHA established.

1941 Over 28,000 Vinnitsa Jews murdered. More than 37,000 Jews of Vinnitsa will eventually be murdered. All 2,000 Litin Jews murdered. 1,159 Novo-Wilejka Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered.

1942 Czestochowa Ghetto liquidated. ‘Sonderkommando 1005’ arrives at Sobibor to dispose of the evidence of 250,000 murders.

September 23rd.

1936 Concentration Camp opens at Sachsenhausen with 1,000 incarcerated.

1939 First Polish Women prisoners sent to Ravensbrueck.

1940 Himmler authorises ‘Max Heiliger’ account for Jewish monies and valuables plundered from them.

1941 Over 3,450 Ejszyszki Jews are murdered. Entire Jewish Population of Krasnaya Gora murdered by Wehrmacht Troops. Gassing tests continue at Auschwitz. Rudolf Hoess, the Auschwitz Kommandant, found the use of Zyklon ‘B’, a Hydrocyanic Gas, formerly used as a pesticide, to be even more effective in the destruction of the Jewish People. The ratio of 8-10 grams per Cubic Metre would result in total asphyxiation within a 15 minute period. Zyklon ‘B’ was easy to pack, transport and store in their sealed cans.

1943 Vilna Ghetto liquidated. 3,700 Vilna Jews are sent to various Labour Camps, Vaivara included. 4,000 Vilna Jews are transported and murdered at Sobibor. Minsk Ghetto Jews expelled to Sobibor. Remaining Lida Ghetto Jews expelled to Sobibor. More than 14,200 Lida Jews are eventually murdered. Remaining Riga Ghetto Jews expelled to Sobibor. More than 30,000 Jews from Riga murdered.

1944 Massacre of Jews at Klooga Concentration Camp. Jewish Deportations recommence from Slovakia. Russian forces retake Reval.

September 24th.

1934 Militarised Standby Troops ‘Verfügungstruppen’ are commissioned as part of the SS, but supposedly to be placed under Wehrmacht jurisdiction in War time.

1939 At Zyardow Stadium Jews endure 10 days of confinement without food.

1940 ‘Jud Suess’ premieres in Berlin.

1941 1,767 Riesa Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. Russian Intelligence set booby traps in Kiev for Germans.

1942 Jewish Ghetto Uprising in Tuchin. 3,000 Jews escape. 1,000 later caught and murdered.

September 25th.

1935 A protocol from Walter Gross’s Racial Policy Office confirmed that the Jews would face all consequences as a result of another War on two fronts.

1941 Kherson Ghetto finally Liquidated. More than 15,410 Kherson Jews were murdered. 575 Jahiunai Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. SS Obergruppenfuhrer Friedrich Jeckeln assembles his forces for liquidation of Kiev’s Jews.

1942 2,000 Kaluszyn Jews murdered Treblinka. Koretz Ghetto Uprising. 700 Stanislawow Jews murdered Treblinka. 700 Romanian Jews deported from Drancy Camp to Auschwitz gassed, along with deported French Jews.

1943 Russians retake Smolensk. All Ghettos in Byelorussia to be liquidated.

September 26th.

1938 Hitler declares no territorial demands to be made, after Sudetenland.

1941 8,000 Jews of Swieciany are murdered in the nearby Woods. 4,000 Jews of Eisysky murdered. 3,700 Jews of Polygon are murdered in the nearby Woods. 1,608 Kovno Jewish Men, Women, Children and Sick murdered at Fort IV. A German conference is held to discuss the position of the Jews of Kiev. Participating in this meeting are: Major Gen. Friedrich Georg Eberhardt, the City’s Military Governor, SS Obergruppenfuhrer Friedrich Jeckeln, HSSPF, SS Brigadefuhrer Dr. Otto Rasch, Einsatzgruppe ‘C’ Commanding Officer, and SS Standartenfuhrer Paul Blobel Sonderkommando 4a Commander. Kiev’s Jewish Synagogues are attacked and Jews found within them are taken to be murdered.

1942 4,000 Biala Podlaska Jews murdered Treblinka.

1944 Final stage of Kaiserwald Camp evacuation completed. Wehrmacht cleared from Estonia. Some 4,000 Jews from Estonia were murdered.

September 27th.

1934 Great Britain, France and Italy declare their support for an Independent Austria.

1938 Decree disallowing Jewish Lawyers ability to practice. Dr. Heinrich Rothmund, Swiss Chief of Police, seeks stem flood of Jewish refugees to Switzerland. Meets with Werner Best, Gestapo and Gustav Roediger, Foreign Office to sign Red ‘J’ decree.

1939 Warsaw surrenders. Dachau cleared to make way for Waffen SS training camp. Inmates sent to Mauthausen.

1940 Tripartite Treaty concluded between Germany, Italy and Japan.

1941 3,446 Eysisky Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. More of Kiev’s Jewish Synagogues are raided and many more Kievan Jews are murdered. Heydrich becomes ‘Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.’

1942 13,000 Kozienice Jews murdered Treblinka. 1,000 Kolbiel Jews murdered Treblinka. 300 Tuchin Jews return to Ghetto and are murdered.

September 28th.

1938 Hitler threatens Czechoslovakia. 1939 500 Przemysl Jews murdered in 2 week period. Poland surrenders.

1941 1,000’s of Kremenchug Jews murdered at Peschanoye. Over 1,000 Germans killed in Kiev by Russian bombs. Jews of Kiev ordered to assemble.

1944 Over 2,400 Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. Churchill announces formation of Jewish Brigade.

September 29th.

1933 Hitler approves the Decree banning German Jews from farming.

1938 Munich Conference attended by Hitler, Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, Britain’s Prime Minister and Edouard Daladier, France’s Premier. Czechoslovakia is forced to accede the Sudetenland. Jews of Germany prisoners of Allied latency. Britain signs a Friendship Treaty with Germany.

1939 Hitler clearly avows that Poland will cease to exist as a separate state. Wehrmacht marches into Warsaw. Germany and Russia agree on spoils of War and Poland is partitioned. Russia signs pacts with Estonia and Finland. More than 2,000,000 Jews under German control, with 1,300,000 in Russian sphere of Poland. SS deports more than 8,000 Jews from Pultusk.

1941 First Day of the Babi-Yar Action. Murders undertaken by SK4a, Waffen SS and members of Poliziergiment South.

1942 800 Serniki Jews attempt to escape. 500 are killed.

1944 Over 1,500 Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz.

1947 Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Case Number 9, ‘The Einsatzgruppen Case’, begins. Twenty Four defendants, all leading and active members of these Einsatzgruppen, the German mobile killing units, are charged with the murders and ill-treatment of POWs and of the civilian population in occupied territories. They are also charged that in search of that aim they acted with a wanton destruction that could not be justified by military necessity.

September 30th.

1938 Jewish Medical Certification ban comes into force. Jewish Doctors may only nurse Jewish patients.

1941 Second Day of the Babi-Yar Action. Combined Action sees the total of 33,771 of Kiev’s Jews murdered. Einsatzgruppe detailed this very slaughter in their own Operational Situation Reports (OSR’s). 1,446 Trakai Jewish Men, Women and Children murdered. 700 Berezhany Jews murdered.

1942 16,000 Lodz Jews murdered Chelmno in week-long exercise. 10,000 Zelechow Jews murdered Treblinka. 4,000 Parysow Jews murdered Treblinka.

1943 25 Prisoners from the SK 1005 task attack their SS overseers. Barely 14 managed to Survive and escape while all others were shot.

1946 Judgement on Major War Criminals at Nuremberg is given.

About The 6,000,000 An Assessment — The Holocaust

Please note. This assessment is an on-going study and reflects where I have reached in My research and not where I have concluded it. There is an overall estimate at Yad Vashem which has managed to collate in excess of 4,000,000 known Names of those Jews who were Murdered during the period of The Holocaust. While this represents a monumental achievement, it is a tragedy that there are nearly some 2,000,000 other Jews of Europe whose names might well be lost to us. Toward History, which relies on the cold hard facts of detail, we are scraping around for, and not just a sense meaning nor of comprehension, but for the last remnants of a Jewish People whose presence was intended to be totally obliterated. What Hitler has achieved, above anything else he had set his Worldview upon, was an Annihilation of the Jewish People of Europe Toward an eventual Remembrance of the 6,000,000 Assessment, the work to add to those names continues.

Ever since 1946, when the most comprehensively quoted figure for the total number of Jews Murdered in The Holocaust, was given as the 6,000,000 approximation, Humanity has yet to come to terms with the magnitude of the atrocity. This assessment was first wielded at The Nuremberg Trials of the German Major War Criminals, and ever since, the much targeted figure has been researched widely. Such an approximation has provided History with tomes so mighty, Library’s are filled and enhanced by their revealing and absorbing nature. For me, and as it is with any writer’s hand, any attempt to comprehend an account so appalling, so terrifyingly real, can make us so shudder at its realisation, that the words to fathom its meaning are barely credible. There are some however, who are in abject denial as to the extent of this, The Jewish Catastrophe. They are simply entering the arena of our concern because this subject is in relation to the Jewish People. While we, who are deemed responsible to History for what we comment upon, when we are guided by Research and Knowledge of this very Truth.

Some though are seemingly in raptures attempting to revise the actual Veracity of what 6,000,000 Murdered Jews succumbed to! But merely denying the very veracity of this Truth does not revise it, nor does it alter the scope of History or its intrinsic value. Tied to that, and ever since the awful Fact was first mentioned, History has as yet failed to come up with any better terms than Genocide, The Holocaust or The Shoah to fully endorse a World’s horror. The Account, for that is what we look into to deliver a Human cost, more or less agrees with that initial and Catastrophically assessed figure. We move on from there slowly, attempting in the dialogue we choose, to present to the World a more balanced appraisal of why this occurred and why We, Human Civilisation, so abjectly failed to prevent The Holocaust from happening!

While it will always remain so abundantly clear, that Hitler, Eichmann, and those other’s of the Nazi’s dealt in the cold calculated Facts of The Final Solution, we must deal also with the Human dimension and emotion of The Holocaust slaughter of 6,000,000 Jewish Men, Women and Their Children. There is no precise figure for this Human cost, other than that 6,000,000 approximate number so as to represent the enormous loss of the Jewish People Murdered in The Holocaust. For us, the purveyors of a reflected analysis, we are the bystanders to a terrible injustice voiced and Perpetrated in our name.

Our Christian values have been trampled upon and our Religious understanding by passed in selection of a Genocidal policy which has larcenous undertones. It is a continuing shame and stain on all our History that what was Perpetrated was colluded with and assisted while we remained seemingly indifferent to a People’s struggle. What Adolf Eichmann confirmed in such a matter of fact way, as a statsitical conversion, cannot be allowed to stand as other than an accounting task for which he was heavily involved. Though most research does not stray far from this overall assessment, there is always going to be a disparity in the numbers accounted for because of human error, human intervention and the Human cost!

What the entire research confirms though is that the total number of those Jews Murdered is from Hilberg’s low Assessment to Benz’s more up to date Account, at least accepted and at worst a flagrant loss of the Human factor in this, The Jewish People. Extrapolated from Census returns, from estimates of Population Growth and the effects of depopulation caused by Hitler’s Final Solution and what has been gained from before and after The Catastrophe, we will always arrive at an assessment that is somewhere between these margins. Prior to Hitler’s aggressive War, which he commenced on September 1st. 1939, and it was Hitler’s aggression in Invading Poland that World War Two commenced, there had lived 16,500,000 Jewish People. When War had finally destroyed what was left of Hitler’s 1,000 year Reich some 10,500,000 Jews remained. Simple math suggests here that 6,000,000 Jews are no longer residing upon God’s green Earth.

“..death of one man is a tragedy ..death of millions is only statistics.” Josef Stalin.

Oddly how it is that any tyrannt can so mimic each other or mirror a sentiment that is both brutal in frankness and Catastrophic in consequence. Here, what Stalin states, Eichmann will deliberate over as he pushes the Jews of Europe further into total extinction. To counter balance this, Simon Wiesenthal reminds us that we are dealing in the Destruction of The Jewish People, and such a dimension as The Holocaust should not be allowed to disinter the Human Cost.

The Anglo-American Commission of Enquiry suggested had a wide ranging difference, though the overall consensus was that over 6,000,000 Jews were Murdered. Their figures showed, in a range from previous sources, the First and Second example, that their Assessment was proprtionately greater or equal to them in every case, the Third example, except for the case of Austria.

01. Poland: 2,350,000 Jews. 2,600,000 Jews. 3,271,000 Jews.

02. Russia: 700,000 Jews. 750,000 Jews. 1,050,000 Jews.

03. Rumania: 204,000 Jews. 209,000 Jews. 530,000 Jews.

04. Hungary: 180,000 Jews. 200,000 Jews. 200,000 Jews.

05. Czechoslovakia: 241,000 Jews. 251,000 Jews. 255,000 Jews.

06. France: 60,000 Jews. 65,000 Jews. 140,000 Jews.

07. Germany: 160,000 Jews. 180,000 Jews. 195,000 Jews.

08. Holland: 102,700 Jews. 102,700 Jews. 120,000 Jews.

09. Belgium: 25,000 Jews. 28,000 Jews. 57,000 Jews.

10. Greece: 57,000 Jews. 60,000 Jews. 64,000 Jews.

11. Yugoslavia: 55,000 Jews. 58,000 Jews. 64,000 Jews.

12. Austria: 58,000 Jews. 60,000 Jews. 53,000 Jews.

13. Italy: 8,000 Jews. 8,000 Jews. 20,000 Jews.

14. Bulgaria: No Estimate. No Estimate. 5,000 Jews.

15. Norway: 700 Jews. 700 Jews. 1,000 Jews.

16. Denmark: 100 Jews. 100 Jews. 1,500 Jews.

17. Luxembourg 3,000 Jews. 3,000 Jews. 3,000 Jews.

Totals:- 4,204,400 Jews. 4,575,400 Jews. 6,029,500 Jews.

Wolfgang Benz 5,290,000 – 6,200,000 Murdered Jews, Benz was a leading German Holocaust Scholar and his contention, though the estimates read in the range described, he stressed that The Holocaust of The Jews possibly exceeded that figure of 6,200,000 Murdered.

Lucy S. Dawidowicz 5,934,000 Murdered Jews, Dawidowicz used Census analysis.

Gregory Frumkin 4,500,000 Murdered Jews, Frumkin, who Edited The League of Nations

Statistical Year Book’s conducted a study which suggested the figure could be enhanced by a further 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 Murdered..

Martin Gilbert 5,750,000 Murdered Jews,

Yisrael Gutman 5,590,000 – 5,860,000 Murdered Jews,

Raul Hilberg 5,100,000 Murdered Jews, and he breaks down that assessment still further to where:

i) 2,900,000 Jews were Murdered in the various Camps??? STAT

ii) 1,400,000 Jews were Murdered by der Einsaztgruppe

iii) 800,000 Jews Died as a consequence of privation in Hitler’s Ghettos in Byelorussia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Ukraine.

Of this Account, Hilberg asserts that 3,000,000 of these were Polish Jews, representing nearly 59% of all those Murdered Jews of The Holocaust. Also, and it is abundantly clear, that from even the most conservative estimate available, more than 90% of all Polish Jews were Murdered during The Holocaust period. What should also be Remembered, and which no Holocaust Survivor, Scholar, Academic, Writer or Researcher ever fails to mention, Jews were not the only People targetted, but ALL Jews were targeted and they alone are the subject of that is termed The Holocaust.

I am constantly made aware that the disparity in the figures might cause confusion, but it is clear, whether we are looking at the loss of 6,000,000 Jewish Lives, in Total, or the Destruction of 50,000 Jews at Belsen, the Murders by der Einsaztgruppe of more than 1,250,000 Jewish People, the Account is a Catastrophic one. The figures I widely endorse and use in my work are by no means exclusive, as Ghetto’s, Towns and Shtetl’s, other Camps in the Reich, all added toward that final assessment Hitler chose to call die Endlosung der Judenfrage, The Final Solution of The Jewish Question. The figures set out below are an approximation of those 4,658,500 Jews Murdered in these specific areaas and Camps including all x6 Death Camps, so numbered.

But be careful whilst dealing with the seeming abstract of Accounts, Figures, Numbers, these are totalling an appalling Human cost for which These Jews of Europe paid, the ultimate price!

1. Belzec 600,000,

Belsen, 50,000,

2. Birkenau (Auschwitz) 1,100,000,

Buchenwald, 56,500,

3. Chelmno, 152,000,

Dachau, 35,000,

der Einsatzgruppe, 1,250,000,

4. Majdanek, 200,000,

5. Sobibor 250,000,

Stutthof 65,000 and

6. Treblinka 900,000

Makes a Total of Jews Murdered 4,658,500.

Don’t forget too that this figure reprents those Murdered Jews under these headings and are not composite of all those Jews, Murdered in the many other Concentration Campos, Labour Camps, Gehhot’s which filtered the Jewish People toward Destruction. Given German thoroughness, and the demands of Hitler to ensure full weight of those measures he proposed to deal with the Jewish Situation are brought to bear, there is an abundance of documentation.

Though mostly incomplete, it all manages to contain in striking detail, the removal of those Jews from Ghetto’s, Towns and City’s throughout Europe to one of the 6 Death Camps in Poland. It is a common misconception that though all of Hitler’s Camps dealt in The Destruction of The Jews of Europe, they were not all Death Camps. That distinction belongs to Auschwitz, of which Birkenau was The Death Camp, with Chelmno and Majdanek. The 3 Aktion Reinhard Camps, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka then make up that Industrialised process of Murder.

If statistics are to enter the equation, and conducted Census’s form a major Statistic from which we have gathered so much information, there were about 9,400,00 Jewish People in the sphere of influence to be controlled by Hitler, his Nazis and those alligned or collaborting with him. Here again, we deal in uncertainty with respect to Soviet Russia whose secretive nature did not dispence with the relevant information required to make a sensible assessment of the number of Jews who resided within its borders.

That said, The Wannsee Conference had decided that there were some 11,292,300 Jews who could be brought into The Final Solution of which 5,000,000 of these Jews would be accounted for from within Russia, the Ukraine and Byelorussia. The 6,000,000 Jews Murdered during the period of The Holocaust, on the basis of these figures still represents well over 53% of all those Jews Murdered.

Can A Bureaucratic System Explain Away The Holocaust!

The fact of my work is not simply in the retelling of History. It is in confronting the neglect of that History and its moral duty to those displaced by it. Those displaced are the victims, the weak who were unprotected by those best able to protect. There were the vulnerable, whose loss to Humanity sears through our consciousness. A bully rallied support and these managed together and were allowed to pick upon those who were isolated, segregated and Ghettoised. That these were the Jews of Europe, made a difference to me in that they were the victims of an Intolerable abuse, and clearly, our Indifference showed the way to those who had clubbed together to beat, mistreat and Murder them. For no other reason than because they were Jews, we stood idly by and allowed this to happen. For me, as I now write on behalf of these 6,000,000 Murdered Jews of Europe, The Holocaust might one day stand by me and attest to my willingness to remember not to forget.

History can own a Student, Researcher and Writer. I had an interest in Hitler before I found The Holocaust. How an insignificant man could galvanise a Nation into War, and with such startling successes initially, was intriguing. The Blitzkrieg struck a chord. But then it became obvious that this man was no simple leader of men. He commanded with utter disregard for the efficacy of the lives he commanded and then, reprehensibly, the lives of those People he insisted should die. Hitler was a petty man with petty ideals and his grandiose World view was nothing but a harboured resentment of all that was Jewish. All that Hitler wasn’t and all that he could not become, he resented. From an early age, that view of the World became an ever more localised focus upon the Destruction of The Jewish People. With the prospect of the Conquest of Nations fast diminishing, after the initial euphoria of success had subsided, the destructive process continued.

When it came to the subjugation of Peoples, there were those who were most expendable, The Jews! Those expendable were the Gypsies, Poles, the infirm, Homosexuals and those from religious sects Hitler did not agree with. So now we have a Bureaucratic system designed to deal with aspects of Foreign Policy, an Internal Policy, the Church, the Medical Establishment, the War effort and of course, the entire Structure of the Destructive devices aimed toward a Final Solution with the Jewish People. Layer upon layer of administration was added so that Hitler could get on with the minutiae of the German way. What Hitler did not meddle in, was largely confined to the actual participation in the schemes, War and Murderous undertakings he was happy to leave his underlings to accomplish.

Hitler’s erstwhile take on the Eugenics of Race theory was a delusional hash of some form of ‘aryanisation’ of a class of Germans which did not exist. Aryan theory however, did persist in Hitler’s mind. Toward this final end, Hitler created and allowed to become independent what was clearly not autonomous. It was a bureaucracy of hate led by Himmler, Heydrich and Eichmann and all other Murderers in between, fed by – and answerable to – Hitler. What some, like Hannah Arendt called a banality of evil, did not reside in Hitler’s state for Destruction. Though Himmler was an insipid character, Heydrich was not vapid nor was Eichmann’s command of the final resolve diluted in any way.

When Hitler wanted a War, he commanded War and Keitel, Jodl, Runstedt, Manstein and Guderian provided the means to that end. When victory comes and it did, quite spectacularly in the beginning, it is to Hitler that the plaudits are demanded and homage is paid? When the inevitable consequences of Hitler’s meddling brought about a reverse in fortunes, the administrative juggernaut was at fault, not Hitler. Hitler had looked at the finite detail but could not discern the overall grasp of what leads to overall victory, that ability to adapt and bring about change at the head of the effort on the ground. Hitler was swift to remove all those Generals he blamed for the losses he incurred by virtue of his dictatorial manner. There was disagreement amongst Hitler’s Generals and when they stood their ground, Hitler had them dismissed, not shot!

When Hitler took a giant leap and sought to inveigle all of Germany, and its Bureaucratic network, and more importantly, the German peoples into the push for a Final Solution of that Jewish question, none refused admission. Those that did were not to suffer the same fate as those Hitler demanded be Murdered. When it came to the administration of the deed, Himmler, Heydrich, Hoess, Stangl, Eichmann, Rasch and Blobel were keen to administer. None availed of the opportunity to desist, refuse or suggest their moral conscience could not allow them such a monsterous undertaking. Those who managed to escape back to a desk, and away from the Killing, administered the Slaughter from a distance. What these bureaucrats of Hitler’s had managed, was an orchestration of Hitler’s demands which could be manipulated from such close proximity to the Slaughter. That immediacy was for them to be standing right next to the Gas Chambers and the Pits, watching the progression of Jews toward extinction. What they witnessed, what they saw, what they enabled was linked back to Hitler by the very deed, communicated in Person and in wordy extracts deciphered by Mueller, Bormann and a clique of bureaucrats in an inner sanctum so that Hitler could know his goal was being achieved.

In every technocracy, it is essential that information flowing down is also assembled and fed back along the same line. Communication is a two way process and can all but stifle the clear direction demanded if it is not adhered to. So for those who insist that Hitler’s dialogue went one way, and the process of it being carried out stalled at the point of execution, that is not the way the process works. The implicit demands in War were met and Hitler knew their outcome. The same is true of The Final Solution, otherwise the Reich would be besieged by anarchy. Trains alone required the movement of the Jews toward their Murder, this could not be accomplished without Hitler’s War effort being severely impeded.

So for all stages of die Endlosung der Judenfrage, this could not be consigned to a ‘page in history’ without Hitler checking the minor detail of whether Jews were actually Murdered or not! Too many officials it seems, acted in accord with the Hitler system of Destruction and acted without conscience. They knew they had a moral duty to their own beliefs, but chose to direct their capacity as administrators in the mass Murder of Innocent Jews, Gypsies, the sick and the Infirm, in the belief that they were not just doing what Hitler wanted but what they too accepted was conscionable? Their duty as human beings became subjected to an administrative demand which they countenanced with their involvement. Could they have acted differently? They could have refused to act as Murderers or administrators of a Murderous enterprise, but declined to act with any sort of decency!