October 4, 1942:
- October 1942: "Jews are deported to Auschwitz from Holland and Belgium; to the Treblinka death camp from central Poland and the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia camp/ghetto; and to the Belzec death camp from the Eastern Galicia region of Poland.
- "In the Occupied Soviet Union, many Jews are killed in the streets, in forests, and in rock quarries.
- "At Novogrudok, Belorussia, 50 Jews escape from the Germans and join local resistance led by Tuvia Bielski.
- "Eighteen hundred Jews are seized at Radziwillów, Ukraine; 600 escape.
All told this month, about 80,000 Soviet Jews are murdered at execution pits throughout the occupied regions of the Soviet Union. - "Fifteen deportation trains arrive at Auschwitz from Norway, Belgium, Holland, and Slovakia.
- "All Jewish property in Norway is confiscated.
- "Most Jewish escapees from the village of Markuszow, Poland, are destroyed by a German encirclement and subsequent armored and artillery attacks after five months of freedom in area forests.
- "As 3000 Jews are arrested at Pinczów, Poland, resistance is led by Michael Majtek and Zalman Fajnsztat.
- "Five thousand Jews are deported from Zawichost, Poland to Belzec.
- "British Vatican Ambassador Francis d'Arcy Osborne writes in his diary that Pope Pius XII only occasionally denounces moral crimes.
But such rare and vague declarations "do not have...lasting force and validity."
Osborne points out that the Pope's "policy of silence in regard to such offences against the conscience of the world must necessarily involve a renunciation of moral leadership." - Early October 1942: "At a small labor camp at Budy, Poland, female German non-Jewish prisoners beat, mutilate, and kill dozens of captive Jewish women.
When the massacre is over, Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss inspects the scene. - October 1, 1942: "The Chelmek slave-labor camp, located in Poland near Auschwitz-Birkenau, opens to house Jews draining swamps to provide water to the nearby Bata shoe factory.
- October 1, 1942: "In Luków, Poland, Jewish Council member David Lieberman is told by German authorities that money he has collected to ransom Lublin's Jews is useless, and deportations will continue, whereupon Lieberman tears the money to pieces and slaps the German official in the face.
Ukrainian guards kill Lieberman immediately, and 4,000 of the Jews Lieberman had hoped to protect are deported to the Treblinka extermination camp, where they are gassed. - October 1-2, 1942: "Hundreds of Jews escape the Ukrainian town of Luboml but are quickly hunted down.
In all, some 10,000 of the town's Jews are killed. - October 2, 1942: "At the Treblinka death camp, Jews from Zelechów, Poland, are murdered.
- October 3, 1942: "The Polish ambassador to the Vatican details to Pope Pius XII (through a report through the secretariat of state) that the Germans have gassed thousands of Jews.
- October 4, 1942: "Berlin orders that all Jews in concentration camps within Germany be deported to Auschwitz."
"On September 30, 1942, the Nazis deported these Jews from the Polish town of Zelechow.
After marching to the Sobolewo railway station, the prisoners were loaded onto trains bound for Treblinka, where approximately 10,000 died in the camp's gas chambers on October 2.
The Jews' worldly goods were confiscated by the Germans for use in the war effort."
"As resources within the Warsaw Ghetto dwindled almost to nothing, contraband food and other items became unimaginably valuable.
Whether consumed by oneself or used as barter, such items could mean the difference between life and death.
The outraged Jewish teenager seen here is being relieved of illegal items (whether by a Jewish civilian or a Jewish policeman is unclear).
In any case, the boy would have considered himself fortunate merely to have been stripped of his goods; at worst, he would have been executed."
Kurt Daluege
"Kurt Daluege was commander of the Police of the German Reich.
He also became deputy protector of Bohemia and Moravia following Reinhard Heydrich's assassination.
Short on intellectual abilities but a talented administrator, Daluege was a willing partner in the Nazis' "Final Solution."
"Daluege, who joined the Nazi Party in 1922, became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1926 and transferred to the SS in 1928.
In January 1933 he was elected to the German Reichstag.
As chief of the police department of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, Daluege effectively transformed the Prussian police into a significant political instrument of the Nazi Party.
"The activities for which Daluege is most infamous are the massacres carried out in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for Heydrich's assassination.
For his crimes, Daluege was executed by the Czechs in October 1946."