Holocaust Important Dates
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- October 21, 1944
- January 18-21, 1943
- February 13, 1943
- Oskar Schindler moves his Jewish work force from the Plaszow concentration cam to a factory is Bruennlitz. He saves over 1,000 Jews through employment in his factory claiming they were essential to wartime production.
- August 4, 1944
- Germans encounter the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) when they resist deportation from the Warsaw ghetto. 1000 Jews were massacred in the main square on January 21 and a further 5000-6000 Jews were deported to death camps.
- February 13, 1943
- Members of the Sonderkommando revolted at Auschwitz on October 7th after being supplied by four women who smuggled gunpowder out of nearby factories. All members of the Sonderkommando were killed and the four women were publically hung on January 6, 1945, only weeks before the camp is liberated.
- May 16, 1943
- The Frank family was discovered in hiding and were arrested and taken to Westerbork transit camp before being transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Anne and her sister were sent to Bergen-Belsen when the war ends and die from typhus in the spring 1945. Their father survived to published Anne's diary.
- Pastor André Trocmé is arrested in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Edouard Theis, the administrator of the Cévenol School and half-time minister, and Roger Darcissac, the director of a publicboy school, are also arrested for rescuing over 5000 Jews by hiding them in private homes, schools, local monasteries and convents.
- The Germans blew up the Great Synagogue in Warsaw, signalling the end of the uprising and the destruction of the ghetto. This was the end of Jewish resistance in Warsaw. 56,065 Jews were captured, 7000 were deported to the Treblinka killing centre and the remainder were sent to labour camps.
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