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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread.

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Japanese Advance, 21 July-16 Sept. 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Advance to Stalingrad, Operations, 24 July-18 November 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

September 15, 1942:

September 15-16, 1942: "Members of the Kalush, Ukraine, Jewish community are deported to the Belzec death camp.
September 15-21, 1942: "The Jewish community from Kamenka, Ukraine, is murdered at the Belzec death camp."

"Although the Rabbinate was abolished in the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto in September 1942, Jews continued to observe the religious holidays, and the chairman of the Jewish Council, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, took on the task of performing marriages.
Here, the generations of the Lódz Ghetto join in observance of the High Holy Days as an elderly Jew, holding his prayer book and wearing a tallit, sits with a young man, perhaps his grandson."

September 16, 1942:

"Six thousand Jews from Jedrzejów, Poland, are murdered at the Treblinka death camp."

"Sonderkommando prisoners burn bodies at Auschwitz. When there were too many corpses for the ovens and/or when the ovens failed, other means of disposing of Jewish corpses were used.
The death camp at Sobibor had gas chambers but no crematoria ovens."

http://www.correctionhistory.org/auburn&osborne/bighouse4.htm

One of the most reviled killers to ever sit on death row at Sing Sing was a teenager. His name was Edward Haight. His shocking story . . . began in the tranquil village of Bedford in Westchester County. On September 15, 1942, two girls, Margaret Lynch, 7, and her sister Helen, 9 were seen getting into a Ford station wagon that was reported stolen in nearby Stamford, Connecticut. They were never seen alive again . . .

The very next day, a Connecticut state trooper was driving along a road in north Stamford when he observed Edward Haight, 16, drive by . . . When Haight was pulled over, police found a gas ration book from the stolen Ford station wagon in his pocket. He was taken into custody and soon confessed to the murder of both Lynch sisters. . . . Helen’s body was fished out of the Kensico Reservoir. Margaret had been strangled and her body was located in the woods near the reservoir. . . .

Haight was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and locked up in the Bedford jail . . . . During the trial, which opened on October 29, both the prosecution and defense psychiatrists offered conflicting opinions on the defendant’s sanity . . . . On November 5, Haight was found guilty of first-degree murder . . . . Deliberations lasted less than one hour . . . .

He was taken immediately over to death row in Sing Sing. Ironically, Edward’s father, Arnold Haight, once did four years at Sing Sing for a burglary back in 1932 . . . . On July 8, 1943, [Edward at 17] became the youngest person to be executed in Sing Sing’s electric chair. His father was unable to claim his body and Edward Haight was buried in a plot of quick lime in nearby Peekskill.