[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[BroJoeK]

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July 1942:

• "Hundreds of German Jews are deported to the ghetto/camp at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia. In Paderborn, Germany, all Jewish orphans are deported to Theresienstadt.

• "Seven trains of Jewish deportees leave Westerbork, Holland, for the Auschwitz death camp.

• "At Kleck, Belorussia, a few dozen Jews break out and join partisans.

• "Extermination activities at the Sobibór death camp are temporarily halted for railway construction and enlargement of the camp's gas chambers.

• "The Jewish community at Gorodenka, Ukraine, is wiped out.

• "The U.S. and Britain agree on an Allied invasion of North Africa.

• July 2: "The Jewish community from Ropczyce, Poland, is murdered at the Belzec death camp.

• July 2: "The New York Times reports the "slaughter of 700,000 Jews" in German-occupied Poland.

• July 6: "The first issue of Eynikeyt (Unity), a Yiddish-language journal of the Soviet Jewish Antifascist Committee, is published.

• July 6: "Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in Amsterdam.

• July 7: "SS chief Heinrich Himmler chairs a meeting of SS functionaries to discuss sterilization and other gynecological procedures and experiments on Jewish women held at Auschwitz.
  The procedures will be conducted without the women's knowledge; See July 10, 1942.

• July 7: "One thousand Jews from Rzeszów, Poland, are killed at the Rudna Forest.
  Fourteen thousand are deported to the Belzec death camp.

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