- "Polish President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz requests that Pope Pius XII publicly denounce German atrocities against the Jews.
Pius remains silent concerning both the German slaughter of the Polish Jews as well as the German attacks against Polish Catholics."
- Rabbi Leo Baeck
"Rabbi Leo Baeck was one of the preeminent rabbis and theologians of German Jewry.
Ordained in 1897, Baeck served as a liberal rabbi in Berlin from 1912 until his deportation to the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto in early 1943.
"When the Nazis created the Reich Representation of German Jews in 1933, Baeck was named its president.
As chief representative of German Jewry, he refused to leave Germany, even when his safety and that of German Jewry was threatened.
"After being deported to Theresienstadt, Baeck worked tirelessly to bolster the morale of many Jews, even those whom he knew were destined for Auschwitz.
After the war Baeck settled in London, where he became the president of the Council of Jews from Germany.
The Leo Baeck Institute, which is the primary research institution for the study of German Jewry, bears the name of this venerable man."
"Inside the Warsaw Ghetto, a worker drags an emaciated body from the street.
In January 1943 the Germans initiated a new deportation from the ghetto.
For the first time, Jews resisted with force, using their few weapons to fight the Germans on the streets and in the ghetto's buildings.
These skirmishes raised morale and provided vital experience for the decisive struggle that would begin a few months later."
"Ragged children wait in front of a brick wall in the Warsaw Ghetto.
By winter 1942-43, conditions within the ghetto were abominable.
Pipes froze and raw sewage spewed into the streets.
Typhus raged throughout the ghetto, and starvation rations were exacting a heavy toll on the Jewish populace.
Upwards of 5,000 people a month were dying, and those who clung to life were miserable beyond description."
"Prisoners held at Dachau work in a nearby armaments factory.
Perhaps a third of the slave laborers were Jewish; the remainder were political dissidents, clergymen, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and Soviet POWs.
The exploitation of slave labor and the extension of the war effort fueled the camp's growth.
Dachau eventually included 36 subcamps that utilized 37,000 prisoners as forced laborers.
The vast majority of these workers were engaged in armaments production."
"Nazi propaganda recognized no boundaries when it rallied the German Volk behind the war effort.
In addition to the ever-present radio speeches and parades, postage stamps carried the message of military glory.
The battle scenes depicted in these stamps reinforced the link between the German nation and the war. "