August 17, 1943:
- "August 10: Twenty-seven Jewish women seized by Nazis in the 'Aryan' section of Warsaw are executed.
- August 15: "Nearly 1,000 French Jews of Polish birth are deported to a slave-labor camp on Alderney, one of the British Channel Islands seized in 1940 by Germany, and are put to work building fortifications.
- August 16: "Inmates revolt at the slave-labor camp at Krychów, Poland.
- August 16-20: "Nazi troops enter the Jewish ghetto at Bialystok, Poland, to destroy the more than 30,000 Jews inside.
Hundreds of Resistance fighters, led by Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff and Daniel Moszkowicz--who battle back with small arms, axes, and bayonets--are annihilated.
Those who survive are transported to death camps, where 25,000 are killed; See August 17, 1943. - August 17: "Some 1,200 children are taken from the Jewish ghetto at Bialystok, Poland, to the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto and later to Auschwitz, where they will be killed.
- "The Allies defeat Axis forces in Sicily. "
"The Treblinka death facility smolders in the distance following the uprising.
The revolt was engineered by a small group of Czech-Jewish prisoners.
During the uprising, some SS guards were killed and a few of the participants managed to escape to the surrounding forests.
Even though the gas chambers were damaged, they continued to function after the revolt.
The camp remained in operation for two additional months."
"Haika Grossman, a Jew, was an underground activist.
As a youth she joined a Zionist youth movement in Bialystok, Poland, and she later helped organize underground resistance there following the German occupation.
Grossman posed as a Polish gentile during her many missions to other ghettos on behalf of the Jewish underground.
She also participated in the Bialystok Ghetto revolt in August 1943.
"This was one of the hundreds of mass graves dug near the Chelmno death camp.
From 1941 to 1944, Chelmno gassed 150,000 to 320,000 people (estimates vary greatly), most of whom were Polish Jews.
The Nazis stopped deportations to Chelmno in 1943 because the camp's gas-van extermination process was, in their minds, too slow.
However, they reopened the camp in April 1944 to receive and kill the Jews of Lódz, Poland."
"The Katzowicz brothers fought in the Bialystok (Poland) Ghetto uprising of August 1943.
The city had numerous underground factions, and not until 1943 did they put politics aside and unite in common purpose.
During the five days of battle, more than 1,500 Jewish fighters gave their lives."