July 31, 1942:
- "Governor Wilhelm Kube reports to Hinrich Lohse, Reichskommissar of the Baltic regions and Belorussia, that "Jewry has been completely eliminated" in the Minsk area.
- "Bluma Rozenfeld, 19, leaps to her death from a fifth-floor window in the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto.
- "Israel Lichtenstein writes from the Warsaw Ghetto: "At present, together with me, both of us get ready to meet and receive death.
I wish my little daughter to be remembered.
Margalith, twenty months old today....I don't lament my own life nor that of my wife.
I pity only the so little, nice and talented girl.
She deserves to be remembered." - Late July 1942: "Germany decides not to disclose the whereabouts of Dutch deportees, saying only that they had been sent to 'an unknown destination...somewhere in the East'--that is, to the Auschwitz extermination camp. "
"The German offensive against the Soviet Union relied heavily upon surprise and speed.
The first phases of the attack led to one Nazi victory after another, as Hitler threw masses of men and machines into the Eastern Front.
The successes of the summer of 1941 were followed by even more spectacular victories the next summer, including the capture of the Crimea and its naval base at Sevastopol."
August 1942:
- "Throughout Europe, more than 400,000 Jews are murdered.
- "In Poland, Swedish diplomat Baron Göran von Otter is told by SS Obersturmführer Kurt Gerstein of Nazi killings of Jews in Poland.
- "Deportations of Jews from France and Holland continue.
- "5,500 Jews are deported from Zagreb, Croatia, to Auschwitz, which is suffering a virulent epidemic of typhus.
- "76,000 Jews from the Eastern Galicia region of Poland are deported to Belzec.
Throughout the month 150,000 Jews are murdered there. - "In the Volhynia region of Poland, 87,000 Jews are killed."
- "A heat wave and caterpillars destroy a cabbage crop cultivated by residents of the Lódz Ghetto.
- "In the Ukraine, some 500 Jewish families are shot to death by SS Einsatzgruppen and dumped in a mass grave near the town of Zagrodski.
- "The Majdanek, Poland, camp is fitted with gas chambers.
- "Fifty thousand Jews are deported from Lvov, Ukraine, to the Belzec death camp.
- "Catholic nun Edith Stein, born a Jew, is arrested in the Netherlands by the Gestapo; See August 8, 1942.
- "The United States, British, and German governments save two and a half million Greek civilians from starvation.
Great Britain and the United States agree to permit food to reach Greece after the Germans assure them that the food will not be confiscated.
Great Britain ships 35,000 tons of food per month to Greece and the United States pays for it; the process is monitored by neutral nations and the International Red Cross.
The agreement costs the Allies $30 million per year.
In contrast, the Allies do not seek to help feed Europe's Jews. - "A Polish partisan named Trzcinski passes a hand grenade into a railcar carrying Jewish deportees to the Treblinka death camp.
The grenade will be used later at the camp to wound a group of Ukrainian guards."
- GERMAN ADMINISTRATION OF EASTERN EUROPE, 1942
The Baltic states became Reichskommissariat Ostland. Greater Germany and the Generalgouvernement included western and eastern Poland, respectively."