thousand Jews have been murdered in Crimea in the previous
four months.
May 1942—Extermination begins at Sobibor. Two hundred fifty
thousand Jews will perish there by October 1943.
June 1942—In the Warsaw ghetto, more than one hundred
thousand Jews have died of disease and starvation. The
Treblinka death camp opens; seven hundred thousand Jews will
be murdered there. Eichmann notes that since December 1941,
ninety-seven thousand people have been “processed” in three
gas-vans. In reprisals for the assassination of Heydrich, the Czech
town of Lidice is leveled and the entire population is murdered
or deported. A second gas chamber is activated at Auschwitz.
The New York Times reports that over one million Jews have been
killed by the Nazis.
July 1942—The first deportees are sent from Germany and Holland
to Auschwitz. The first medical experiments are performed at
Auschwitz. The Warsaw ghetto “Aktion” begins, where six thousand
people each day are deported to Treblinka for extermination.
August 1942—Two hundred fifty thousand Jews are killed at Belzec
and one hundred thirty-two thousand in Eastern Territory pits.
September 1942—The Chief Rabbi of Norway, Julius Samuel,
refuses to go into hiding and chooses to join two hundred eight
Norwegian Jews sent to Bergen-Belsen. The three thousand
Jews of Tuczyn stage an armed resistance against the Nazis and
escape to the forests; only twenty survive the war.
October 1942—Another fifty-eight thousand Jews are killed in
Belzec, eighty-two thousand at Treblinka, seventeen thousand at
Sobibor, and eighty thousand in Eastern Territory pits.
November 1942—The United States State Department confirms
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