October 29, 1942:
- "Written comments by Winston Churchill excoriating Germany for the systematic extermination of European Jews are read at a London protest meeting chaired by the archbishop of Canterbury.
- "In Warsaw, resistance fighters with the Jewish Fighting Organization assassinate Jacob Lejkin, acting commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish police, for his complicity in deportations of Jews.
- "3,230 Jews from Sandomierz, Poland, are murdered at the Belzec extermination camp.
- October 29-November 1, 1942: "Nearly all of the Jews of Pinsk, Poland, are murdered.
- Late October 1942: "Local peasants betray six members of the Jewish Fighting Organization near Kraków, Poland, alerting German troops to the Jews' presence."
"A German propaganda poster exhorts French workers to go to Germany.
The appeal states: "You hold the key to the camps. French workers, you can liberate French prisoners (of war) by working in Germany."
The message refers to the agreement between the Vichy government and Germany whereby a French POW would be released for every French laborer who volunteered to work in Germany."
"These Jewish women and children, carefully guarded by Germans, board a train bound for the Treblinka death camp.
They were among the 10,000 Jews from Miedzyrzec Podlaski deported to Treblinka during October 1942, a month that was among the bloodiest in the camp's history.
Many of Miedzyrzec Podlaski's Jews died on the horrific train ride to Treblinka, rather than in the camp's gas chambers."
"Rescued from Occupied France by Varian Fry, painter Marc Chagall, pictured here with his daughter, Ida, was among those modern artists whose work was condemned by the Nazis.
When the Nazis gained power, Chagall's works were removed from museums and some were held up for censure in the enormous exhibit of "degenerate art" that was held in Munich in 1937.
The Nazis considered Chagall's works, as well as those by Picasso and van Gogh, inappropriate for German collections."
October 30 , 1942:
- Late October 1942:
- "Three thousand Jews readied for deportation from eastern Poland to the Belzec death camp are stripped naked to prevent resistance."
- Ordnungsdienst
"The Ordnungsdienst (order service) served as the police arm of the Judenrat (Jewish council) in the ghettos.
Responsible for carrying out the orders of the council and of the German authorities, the Ordnungsdienst were loathed and feared by the ghetto population--even though they were Jews.
"Ordnungsdienst personnel faced excruciating moral dilemmas.
Initially charged with maintaining discipline in the ghetto, including guarding workers on labor details outside the ghetto, in time the order service was expected to enforce quarantines during typhus outbreaks and carry out deportations.
"Failure to deliver the mandated number for deportation resulted in harsh repercussions for both the police and ghetto residents.
As one Warsaw Ghetto policeman said as he tore a child from the mother's arms: 'I have a wife and three children.
If I don't deliver my five heads by five o'clock, they'll take my own children.
Don't you see? I'm fighting for my own children!' "