February 22, 1943:
- February 18: "The anti-Nazi White Rose activities in Munich, Germany, culminate in the arrest of University of Munich students (and brother and sister) Hans and Sophie Scholl; See February 22, 1943.
- February 20: "Crematorium II is completed at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
It can burn 1,440 bodies per day. - February 22: "White Rose student resistance leaders, the brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl, are beheaded in Munich, Germany; See Mid-July 1943.
- "Bulgaria signs an agreement with Germany to allow deportations of 20,000 Jews from the former Yugoslav region of Macedonia and former Greek region of Thrace, both now controlled by Bulgaria. About 11,000 Jews will actually be deported (in March).
- "In Lyons, France, Italian military authorities order the local chief of police to nullify a German order for the deportation of several hundred Jews to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
- "The Jewish community at Stanislawów, Ukraine, is annihilated."
"Germany's allies played an important role in the perpetration of the Holocaust.
This agreement is signed by Bulgarian Commissar for Jewish Affairs Aleksander Belev and German Plenipotentiary SS Haupsturmführer Theodor Dannecker.
It is concerned with the deportation of 20,000 Jews from Thrace and Macedonia, newly annexed by Bulgaria, to Eastern Europe.
Upon arriving in Occupied Europe, the Jews were murdered by the Nazis."
"Janine Putter, a refugee child from France, lights one of the memorial candles at a protest prayer service held in New York's Mecca Temple on February 22, 1943.
More than 3,000 children from 518 religious schools in the New York area attended the event to protest the treatment of children in Nazi-occupied Europe."
"Resistance against the German invaders was especially strong in the Soviet Union, where the Nazis pursued barbarous occupation policies.
These five Soviets were hanged in Kharkov.
The signs around their necks read, "Punishment for blowing up mines."
Such acts of sabotage played a role in the turning of the tide on the Eastern Front and the eventual defeat of the Third Reich."
