December 29, 1941:
- "A Jewish physician from Prague, Czechoslovakia, Dr. Karol Boetim, dies of spotted typhus while treating patients at a Gypsy camp near the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto."
"This Nazi film still shows something with which all too many Europeans, especially Jews, were familiar: the unexpected knock on the door in the middle of the night.
The Germans burst in on their victims, thereby increasing their confusion and reducing the likelihood that they would resist.
The tactic had the further advantage of keeping many of the arrests secret."