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1-18-43
First armed resistance against deportation in Warsaw Ghetto. 1-20/26-43
Transports from the ghetto in Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. 2-2-43
German Sixth Army surrenders at Stalingrad. (This marks the turning point in the war). 2-15/12-43
First "resettlements" in Bialystok ghetto in Poland; 1,000 Jews killed on the spot, 10,000 deported to Treblinka. 2-27-43
Deportation of Jewish armament workers from Berlin to Auschwitz. March-43
Transports from Holland to Sobibor; from Prague, Vienna, Luxembourg, and Macedonia to Treblinka. Mar/May-43
Second "resettlement" in Croatia. 3-13-43
Disbandment of the ghetto in Krakow. 3-15-43
Deportations from Salonika and Thrace. 3-22-43
The first new crematorium in Auschwitz- Birkenau placed into operation. 4-19-43
Bermuda Conference. Fruitless discussions by U.S. and British delegates on deliverance of Nazi victims. 4-19-43 to 5-16-43
Revolt and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. 6-11-43
Himmler orders the liquidation of all Polish ghettos. By the edict of 6-21 expanded to the Soviet Union. 6-21/27-43
Liquidation of the ghetto in Lemberg (Lvov) (20,000 persons). 6-25-43
Revolt and destruction of the ghetto in Czestochowa, Poland. 7-1-43
Thirteenth order of the Reich's Civil Laws: Jews within Germany placed under police justice. 8-2-43
Revolt in Treblinka death camp, revolt at Krikov labor camp, Lublin district. 8-16/23-43
Revolt and destruction of the ghetto in Bialystok. 9-11-43
Start of German raids against Jews in Nice, France. 9-11/14-43
Liquidation of ghettos in Minsk and Lida. 9-11/18-43
Transports of families from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. 9-23-43
Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto. 9-25-43
Smolensk recaptured by Soviet troops. Liquidation of all ghettos in Belorussia. 10-2-43
Order for the expulsion of Danish Jews; due to the rescue operations by the Danish underground, some 7,000 Jews were evacuated to Sweden. Only 475 were captured by the Germans. 10-13-43
Italy declares war on Germany. 10-14-43
Revolt in Sobibor. 10-18-43
First transport of Jews from Rome to Auschwitz. 10-20-43
U.N. War Crimes Commission is established. 11-3-43
Liquidation of the Riga Ghetto. Murder of remaining Jews in Majdanek (17,000 victims). 11-6-43
Kiev recaptured by Soviet troops. 11-28-43
Conference in Teheran; meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. 12-15/19-43
First trial of German war criminals in Charkow (Kharkov), Ukraine.
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