February 5, 1943:
- "At Bialystok, Poland, a Jew named Yitzhak Malmed resists deportation by throwing sulphuric acid into the face of a German police officer, who reacts by accidentally shooting and instantly killing a Gestapo officer standing nearby.
Malmed escapes but surrenders later when the Germans threaten to execute 5,000 Jews in retribution unless he turns himself in.
He is publicly hanged.
His body is displayed at the entrance to the Bialystok Ghetto as a warning to would-be activists. - February 5-12: "Following Jewish resistance, a combination of a street Aktion at Bialystok, Poland, and camp murders at Treblinka takes the lives of nearly 20,000 Jews."
"On October 29, 1942, in the midst of huge operations in Poland and the Soviet Union, the Germans deported 3000 Jews from Sandomierz, Poland, to the Belzec death camp.
On November 10, 1942, those Jews not swept up in the local Aktionen were lured into a temporary ghetto at Sandomierz by German promises of safety from deportation.
It was all a lie, as 6,000 laborers at Sandomierz were killed in early 1943.
In this photo, 20-year-old Yitzchak Goldman and seven other Jews are forced to pose for a German cameraman while laboring in front of a German office building."
"Awaiting deportation to Auschwitz, a young girl squeezes her face into the narrow space between the train doors for a last look at her surroundings.
Beginning in February 1943, trains left the Westerbork, Holland, camp every Tuesday morning.
The trains carried to the East their cargo of 2,000 to 3,000 Jews each.
Told they were being sent to do forced labor in Germany, most deportees suspected otherwise.
Monday nights were filled with terror and dread, as people waited to see if they were among those to be deported."
"E. Baskin, a radio operator for a Ukrainian partisan group, listens intently to a broadcast by the Soviet Information Bureau.
Partisan units throughout Europe and particularly in the Soviet Union relied on radios to send and receive information.
In addition, the ability to intercept German military broadcasts helped them to both evade capture and plan attacks against the enemy."