- March 14: "Two thousand Jews in Kraków, Poland, are assembled for deportation.
Before the train leaves for Auschwitz, hundreds of small children and old people are murdered in the streets and in ditches outside of town.
Patients at Kraków's Jewish hospital are murdered by Gestapo agents. - March 15: "Deportations of Jews in Salonika, Greece, to Auschwitz begin.
The first group numbers 2,800. - March 15: "Trude Neumann, a former mental patient in a hospital near Vienna and daughter of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, dies of starvation at the camp/ghetto at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia.
- March 16: "A much-feared SS trooper is murdered in Lvov, Ukraine, by a Jewish man named Kotnowski; See March 17, 1943."
- American Jewish Organizations
"Throughout the Second World War, American-Jewish organizations engaged in a relentless but relatively unsuccessful effort to save European Jewry.
Their campaigns intensified in 1943 after reports of Hitler's genocidal programs were confirmed.
"The mainstream American-Jewish organizations, led by Rabbi Stephen Wise, organized public demonstrations and lobbied government officials. The American Jewish Congress's "Stop Hitler Now" demonstration in New York City on March 1, 1943, attracted an estimated 75,000 people.
The throng listened to speeches by leaders of the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and other non-Jewish associations.
"A more radical group, the Committee for a Jewish Army (CJA), attempted to broker a rescue operation for Romanian Jews.
The group took out ads in major newspapers, which claimed that the freedom of 70,000 Jews could be purchased for $50 apiece.
Obvious shock value aside, the ad's intent was to show that rescue of Jews was a matter of Allied will.
"On March 15, 1943, eight major Jewish organizations created the Joint Emergency Committee on European Affairs (JEC).
The committee strived to expand the public-information campaign, to spur the United States Congress to support rescue operations, and to organize high-level conferences on behalf of European Jewry.
President Franklin Roosevelt finally created the War Refugee Board, but not until January 1944--14 months after he had learned about the 'Final Solution.' "
"Surrounded by bags of goods, a Jewish woman in the Chelmno death camp sorts clothing from the transports, which will be shipped to warehouses near Lódz, Poland.
Beginning in March 1943, transports to Chelmno ceased when the camp reached its goal of killing most of the Jews in Warthegau, the former Polish territory annexed to the Reich.
The killings resumed about a year later when the decision was made to gas prisoners of the Lódz Ghetto."
"Five German soldiers surround the corpses of two Russian civilians whom they have just executed.
Although theoretically protected under the rules of war, civilians on the Eastern Front became frequent targets of the Germans.
The Nazis exacted ruthless punishment on anyone suspected of being a partisan or aiding partisan activity."