Table of Data Points

Tag : Attrocity

1942-07-22Treblinka Opens

Treblinka extermination camp opens and begins killing Jews, Gypsies and Romani people who were transported from all over Europe. Between July 1942 and October 1943, around 850,000 people were killed there.

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1942-07-161942-07-17Vel' d'Hiv Roundup

3,152 French jews are rounded up and detained at the Winter Velodrome and nearby Drancy internment camp by the Vichy regime. They are subsequently transported to Auschwitz concentration camp. Very few survive the war.

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1942-07-06The Secret Annex

Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the 'Secret Annex' of her father's, Otto Frank, office building.

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1942-06-14Anne Frank starts Diary

Anne Frank receives a notebook for her 13th birthday (12 june) and decides to use it as a diary. She consistently adds and edits the diary until the 1st of August 1944.

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1942-06-10Lidice Massacre

The Czech village of Lidice is razed in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. 192 male residents over 16 were murdered. The remaining women and children were sent to concentration camps, where many perished.

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1942-05-09Zinkiv Massacre

SS troops murder five hundred and eighty eight Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv.

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1942-03-31Stanislawow Ghetto

The Gestapo arrange the deportation of 5000 Jewish residents of the Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. This was one of the largest deportations in the early stages of the camp.

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1942-03-26Women arrive at Auschwitz

For the first time the Auschwitz concentration camp begins taking female prisoners.

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1942-01-20Wannsee Conference

The presentation of the plan for the deportation of the Jewish population of Europe and French North Africa to occupied areas in eastern Europe. It detailed their use in forced labour and the plan for their subsequent annihilation.

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1941-12-15Drobytsky Yar

In a -15 degrees Celsius temperatures, German troops execute over 15,000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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