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 .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our
general discussion thread.
September 12, 1942:
- "More than 4,800 Polish Jews are deported from Warsaw to the Treblinka extermination camp.
A young Jew named Abraham Jakób Krzepicki escapes from Treblinka and makes his way to Warsaw, where ghetto historian Emanuel Ringelblum sees that Krzepicki's eyewitness camp testimony is taken down; See December 1, 1950. - "The German Sixth Army and Fourth Panzer Army reach the suburbs of Stalingrad, Russia.
They're primed to meet the Soviets in the Battle of Stalingrad."
"Ada Levi, a Jew, of Bologna, Italy, received forced-labor notification No. 307.
It was signed by the prefect of Bologna, president of the Provincial Council, on September 14, 1942.
Although the Italian government treated Jews better than the Germans--indeed, better than the Vichy French government--Jews were nevertheless required to provide labor."
"Forced labor was a common characteristic of the German occupation of Poland.
This labor pass of September 15, 1942, was awarded to Chaim Jakub Hallsweder by the Judenrat of Bochnia, Poland.
Less than two months later, the Germans attacked the ghetto, killed dozens of Jews, and sent hundreds of others to the Belzec death camp."
