September 23, 1943:
- September 18: "Two thousand Jews in Minsk, Belorussia, are deported to the Sobibór death camp; 80 are selected for forced labor and the rest are gassed.
- September 18-19: "The Jews of Lida, Belorussia, are deported to the Majdanek death camp.
- September 20: "One thousand Jewish inmates of the camp at Szebnie, Poland, are trucked to a nearby field and executed with machine guns.
The bodies are burned and the bones thrown into the Jasiolka River. - "Jacob Kapler, a Jew assigned to the body-burning detail at the Babi Yar, Ukraine, mass-murder site, finds a key that fits the padlock on a bunker in which he and other laborers are locked each night; See September 29, 1943.
- Late summer 1943: "Forty Jews hiding in forests near Koniecpol, Poland, are attacked by Poles.
Many of the Jews are killed. - September 22: "Wilhelm Kube, the Generalkommissar of Belorussia, is assassinated by a bomb placed beneath his bed by a Soviet partisan who had been assigned to work as his maid."
- Abba Kovner
"In 1941 23-year-old artist Abba Kovner was one of the leaders of Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa'ir, a Socialist Zionist youth organization, in Vilna, Lithuania.
As the Nazis increased their roundups of Jews, Kovner and others hid in a Dominican convent.
When he learned of the killings in the Ponary Forest, Kovner realized the full scope of the Nazi plan--and vowed to fight back.
"On January 1, 1942, Kovner warned his people that deportation meant death.
He issued a stirring call to Jewish youth to flee and fight, not 'to go as sheep to the slaughter.'
Kovner helped organize a united partisan resistance, and with the death of Yitzhak Wittenberg, he became the commander of the United Partisan Organization (FPO).
As the Nazis emptied the Vilna Ghetto of its last Jews in September 1943, Kovner led the escape of his fighters into the Rudninkai Forest, where, as the 'Avenger' battalion, they fought on.
Kovner lived until 1988."
"Surrounded by German parachutists, a slimmed-down Benito Mussolini rejoices in being freed from captivity.
With the landings in Sicily and the momentum swinging to the Allied side, Italian King Victor Emmanuel III dismissed Mussolini as premier in July and placed him in military detention.
Unwilling to lose his Fascist partner or allow Mussolini's government to fall, Hitler ordered a daring rescue.
Mussolini became the puppet head of a Fascist republic based in northern Italy and controlled directly by Germany."
"Wilhelm Kube was the Generalkommisar of Occupied Belorussia.
A longtime Nazi, Kube founded the Glaubensweg deutscher Christen (Movement of German-Christian Believers), which sought the "Aryanization" of Christianity.
He served as a Nazi member of the Reichstag and in various posts, including governor of Brandenburg-Berlin."
"Kube was appointed to his post in Belorussia in 1941.
As he slept on September 22. 1943, Kube was killed by a bomb placed beneath his bed by his maid, a member of the Resistance.
The pageantry of Kube's funeral included a flag-draped casket with a German honor guard."