Table of Data Points

Tag : Attrocity

1943-11-15Porajmos

German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".

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1943-11-031943-11-04Erntefest Massacre

The Trawniki and Poniatowa labor camps were surrounded by SS and police units. Jews were then taken out of the camps in groups and shot in nearby pits dug for this purpose. At of the two days 42,000 jews had been murdered.

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1943-08-02Treblinka Revolt

Prisoners seized small arms, sprayed kerosene on all the buildings and set them ablaze. A number of guards were killed but many more prisoners perished. Of 1,500 prisoners, about 600 managed to escape the camp, but only 40 are known to have survived..

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1943-06-12Berezhany Ghetto

At dawn 1,180 Jews are led to the city's Jewish cemetery in Okopysko and shot. A single survivor, Menachem Katz, escaped and described the massacre.

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1943-04-191943-05-16Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Jewish resistance which rose to try and prevent the deportation of the remaining Jews in the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka extermination camp. The poorly armed and supplied resistance was crushed by German troops.

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1943-04-07Terebovl Massacre

The 1100 Jewish residents of Terebovl, Ukraine are forced to undress to their underwear, marched to the nearby village of Plebanivka and shot.

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1943-03-22Khatyn massacre

The German 118th Schutzmannschaft battalion, with the participation of Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators, murder 149 people, including 75 children, in the Belarusian village of Khatyn.

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1943-03-131943-03-14Krakow Ghetto Liquidated

Under the command of Amon Gth the Krakow Ghetto is liquidated. Those deemed unfit for work, some 2,000 Jews, were killed in the streets of the ghetto. Any remaining were sent to Auschwitz.

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1943-01-18Warsaw Uprising Launched

The Jewish effort to prevent the remaining Warsaw Ghetto population being moved to Treblinka extermination camp begins.

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1942-08-26Chortkiv Holocaust

At 2:30 am in the morning the German Schutzpolizei started driving Chortkiv's 2000 Jews out of their houses, split them in groups of 120 and them to the Belzec death camp. 500 Jewish sick and children were murdered on the spot.

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