1943

JANUARY 18-21, 1943
First armed resistance in Warsaw Ghetto; street fighting under command of Mordechai Anielewicz.

FEBRUARY 5-12, 1943
"Aktion" in Bialystok Ghetto; 1,000 Jews killed on the spot; 10,000 deported to Treblinka.

APRIL 19, 1943
Bermuda Conference. Fruitless discussion by U.S. and British delegates on deliverance of Nazi victims.

APRIL 19, 1943
Warsaw Ghetto revolt.

APRIL 19, TO MAY 16, 1943
Liquidation of Warsaw Ghetto.

JUNE 1943
Himmier orders the liquidation of all Ghettos in Poland and U.S.S.R.

JUNE 25, 1943
Armed resistance by Jewish Combat Organization in Czestochova Ghetto.

JUNE-SEPTEMBER
Hundreds of underground fighters leave the Vilna Ghetto for the forests.

JULY 24, 1943
Revolt in Italy; Mussolini deposed by Badoglio.

AUGUST 2, 1943
Revolt in Treblinka.

AUGUST 16, 1943
Bialystok Ghetto revolt breaks out. Revolt at Krikov Tabour camp, Lublin district.

SEPTEMBER 20, 1943
Rome occupied by Germans. German army in command of most of the territory of Italy.

OCTOBER 2, 1943
Order for the expulsion of Danish Jews: thanks to the rescue operations by the Danish underground. some 7,000 Jews were evacuated to Sweden: only 475 were captured by the Germans.

OCTOBER 10, 1943
Palestinian parachutists are dropped in Rumania.

OCTOBER 14, 1943
Inmates at Sobibor begin armed revolt.

NOVEMBER 28, 1943
Teheran Conference - meeting of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill.

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