- "Jews at Tatarsk in Soviet Russia revolt against murderous peasants and SS kill squads.
The rebellion is put down by regular German Army units, artillery, and air power.
All Jews in Tatarsk are murdered. - "SS officer Viktor Brack, a member of Hitler's Chancellery, concocts a poison-gas program with which to address the "Jewish question."
Brack's notion is supported by Alfred Wetzel, of the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, and by SS functionary Adolf Eichmann."
"The Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania became one of the most infamous in Eastern Europe.
This photograph shows the Ninth Fort, also known as Killing Center No. 2, where about 50,000 Jews were executed.
After their deaths, the murderers pushed the victims into vast pits, which became mass graves containing as many as 3,000 corpses."
October 26, 1941
- "Pigeon-keepers at Kiev, Ukraine, are executed on the assumption that the birds could be used to carry messages.
- "Germans inform Jews of Kalisz, Poland, that elderly Jews in convalescent homes are to be moved to another home the next day; See October 27, 1941."
"Minsk partisans Volodya Sherbateyvich (left) and Masha Bruskina are hanged, October 26, 1941."
October 27, 1941
- "A black van that stops at the Jewish old people's home in Kalisz, Poland, is loaded with elderly and driven off.
The van is specially outfitted to route carbon monoxide into the cargo area; See October 28, 1941." - "Jews of Sluzk, 60 miles south of Minsk, Belorussia, are annihilated by Einsatzkommando troops, half of whom are German, half Lithuanian."
"The expressions on the faces of these Jewish women reflect the nightmarish conditions in the Minsk Ghetto in 1941.
The city was ghettoized in July, and soon the Nazis began to murder its Jewish population en masse.
About 12,000 Jews were killed on November 7, and 7,000 more were murdered on November 20."
October 28, 1941
- "More elderly Jews from a convalescent home in Kalisz, Poland, are taken away in gassing vans.
- "27,000 Jews assembled in Democracy Square in Kovno, Lithuania, must pass before an SS officer named Rauca, who signals life or death for each.
9,200 of the Jews-- 4,300 of them children--are sent to their deaths at pits at the nearby Ninth Fort;
"Workers from Kovel in the former Soviet Union embark on a freight train for an unknown destination.
Millions of non-Jewish workers from all across Europe were deported to Germany as slave laborers.
Without those laborers and Jewish workers, the German war effort could not have kept up as well as it did with the demands of the war economy."