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March 7, 1943:

March 5, 1943: "About 1,300 Jews are exterminated near the Khmel'nik (Ukraine) Ghetto.
Shmuel Zalcman, chairman of the Khmel'nik Jewish Council, is dragged to his death behind a horse-drawn cart because of his contacts with the local Jewish underground.
March 6, 1943: "Twenty young Jews escape the ghetto at Swieciany, Ukraine, to nearby woods.
March 7, 1943: "The Jewish community at Radoszkowice, Belorussia, is destroyed."

"German soldiers force Jews in Marseilles, France, aboard freight cars for deportation to Drancy or Compiègne, France.
Four thousand Jews were deported in the Aktion of March 1943.
In 1942 Monsignor Jean Delay, the archbishop of Marseilles, said his government was justified in defending itself against Jews, who, in his words, had done much evil and should be punished severely."

"Before United Nations flags and huge replicas of the Ten Commandments tablets, the Jewish pageant We Will Never Die opened in New York City on March 9, 1943.
The show starred such Jewish-American actors as Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni, and Sylvia Sidney.
Ultimately, more than 100,000 Americans witnessed this pageant, including many government officials.
The spectacle was sponsored by Palestinian Jews, called the Bergson Boys, who worked in the United States to communicate the plight of European Jews.
They were unable, however, to change American policy."

http://www.jewishpress.com/sections/magazine/news-magazine/bergson-group-activists-recognized-at-yad-vashem-wyman-conference/2011/07/27/

...Led by Hillel Kook (1913-2001), who used the pseudonym “Peter Bergson,” the group sponsored hundreds of full page newspaper ads, lobbied in Congress, and organized a march by 400 rabbis to the White House to plead for U.S. action to rescue Jews from the Nazis.

But the group also sparked its share of controversy. The Roosevelt administration, which resented the group’s pressure for rescue, used the FBI to spy on Bergson and tried to have him deported. Some mainstream Jewish leaders were also unhappy with Bergson. World Jewish Congress co-chair Nahum Goldmann told the State Department in 1944 that his colleague, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, considered Bergson “as dangerous as Hitler” because Bergson’s activities might “cause pogroms” in the United States.

The fact that the Bergson Group made so many enemies may help explain why resentment against it lingered for so long, and why it was only recently that its activism has been gaining recognition and appreciation...