August 21, 1942:
- "3500 Jews from Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, are murdered at Treblinka.
- "The Jewish community at Ozorków, Poland, is murdered."
"The fervent desire for freedom held by many Bedzin youth worried the Nazis, particularly because these young men and women had consciously broken with Jewish tradition, and their actions were likely to be daring and unpredictable.
The young Bedzin residents seen here may very well have been among the 5000 Jews deported to Auschwitz from Bedzin in August 1942."
"German police execute four men in German-occupied Drogobych, Ukraine.
In July 1941 Jews of Drogobych were driven by antisemitic locals to a cemetery and slaughtered.
In August 1942 more than 500 Jews were murdered by German and Ukrainian police during the selection of Jews to be deported."
"Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, the leaders of Great Britain and the Soviet Union, respectively, appear to be on the best of terms during their August meeting in Moscow.
In reality, the two were suspicious and wary of one another.
Engaged in an epic struggle with the Nazis in which millions of his countrymen were dying, Stalin pressed Churchill at this meeting to initiate a second front in France."
August 22, 1942:
- "Ten thousand Jews from Wielun, Poland, are deported to the Chelmno death camp.
- "Ten thousand Jews from Siedlce, Poland, are murdered at the Treblinka death camp.
- "The Jewish community from Losice, Poland, is liquidated at the Treblinka death camp."
"Officers from Germany's Secret Field Police, a branch of the Abwehr (Military Intelligence Service), pose for a photo in Gniezno, Poland.
Headed by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the Abwehr was charged with gathering intelligence about the enemy.
While some officers faithfully performed their counterintelligence duties, others found a home within the Abwehr for resistance activities, thanks to Canaris's growing opposition to Hitler."
August 24, 1942:
- "Jews are locked in a church at Lask, Poland, and killed. Among the victims are a mother and her baby, who is born inside the church.
- "At Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1100 Jews are herded to the local Jewish cemetery, where all but about 100 are shot and beaten to death. Survivors are forced to bury the victims.
- "At the Treblinka death camp, a deranged, young Jewish woman is discovered hiding a small child beneath the bedsheet she wears. Camp guards shoot and kill both the woman and the child.
- August 24-28: "Ten thousand Jews from Nowy Sacz, Poland, are deported to the Belzec extermination camp."
"Jewish children were sometimes hidden in Roman Catholic monasteries and convents.
(Often church officials would not take them unless they did convert.)
Pictured are Jewish children of the Soeurs de Sainte Marie convent school in the Belgian village of Wesembeek-Oppem.
Included is Sara Lamhaut, who survived the war under the name Jeannine van Meerhaegen.
Both of Sara's parents died at Auschwitz in 1943."
"Father Bruno, a Belgian priest, saved several Jewish children from the Nazis.
Among them were (left to right) Henri Zwierszewski, George Michaelson, Willy Michaelson, Henri Fuks, and Willy Sandorminski.
Father Bruno risked his life to rescue these children.
After the war Yad Vashem recognized him as 'Righteous Among the Nations.' "