Germany 1943 (III)* August 1943 - Armed resistance by Jews transpires at the following slave-labor camps: Sasow, Poland; Lackie Wielkie, Poland; Jaktorow, Poland; and Konin, Poland. In every case, most of those who resisted are killed.
* August 2 - At Treblinka, Jews revolt using a variety of weapons; 350-400 of the camp's 700 inmates escape; all except for 100 are hunted down and murdered.
* August 7 - By this date, almost all 50,000 Jews in Salonika, Greece have been murdered.
* August 17 - Allied forces defeat the Axis forces in Sicily.
* August 25 - At a labor camp in the Ukraine, SS troops choose 24 attractive Jewish women, aged 17-20, for an all-night SS orgy. One of the girls attempts to escape and is shot the next day. The other 23 are murdered soon after.
* August 28 - The Nazis declare martial law in Denmark and end the Danish-German agreement that forbids assaulting Danish Jews.
* September 1943 - The American Council for Judaism issues a proclamation that Jewishness "exists in a religious sense only, and that attempts to establish a Jewish homeland would be disloyal to the homeland nations of individual Jews."
Hundreds of Jews escape from Vilna, Lithuania. Vitka Kempner, a Vilna partisan blows up an electrical transformer in the city, and then travels to Olkiniki, Poland and helps burn down a turpentine factory.
Three Jewish partisans in Paris kill Karl Ritter, "aide to Nazi slave-labor chief Fritz Sauckel."
* September 3 -8 - The Allies invade the Italian peninsula. Italy surrenders to the Allies and the new Italian leader signs an armistice with the Allies.
* September 5-6 - Twelve freight cars filled with shoes taken from murdered Jews are delivered to a warehouse in the Lodz Ghetto.
* September 8 - Italian forces surrender at Rhodes. The Germans move into Athens.
* September 10 - The Nazis occupy Rome.
* September 20 - At Szebnie, Poland, 1,000 inmates are trucked to a field and shot with machine guns. The bodies are burned and the bones are tossed into the Jasiolka River.
* September 22 - The Generalkommissar of Belorussia, Wilhelm Kube is assassinated in his sleep by a bomb left under his bed by a maid, a member of the resistance.
* September 25 - The Soviet Army captures Smolensk, Russia. The chief rabbi of Athens, Eliahu Barzilai, disguises himself as a peasant and escapes from the city.
* September 28 - 29 - Jews living in Rome are ordered to deliver 50 kilograms of gold to the Gestapo. Pope Pius XII offered to lend 15 kilograms of gold if the Jews could not obtain the full amount themselves.
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Lend 15! I guess he assumed that the Jews could raise the rest. How sad.
You are only up to 1943 in your history. It is gut wrneching for me, as I remember those years vividly. We knew and did little to save all those lives! It is forgotten and buried for many. Some even insist it didn't happen. How much penance should be assigned and to whom?
Who was not guilty?
Bob Poris
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