1943 TIMELINE
Unsorted 1943 Events [Bottom]
JANUARY
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00 - Fourth Offensive (Weiss) [u.apr]
02 - New Jovanovic government formed
07 - Scientist and inventor Nicola Tesla ?+ dies penniless in New York
[b.jul 9/10 1856]
18 - |Holocaust ?+| First
resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
29 - |Holocaust| Nazis
order all Gypsies + arrested and sent to extermination camps.
30 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner succeeds Heydrich as head of RSHA.
FEBRUARY
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00 - |Holocaust ?+| The
Romanian government proposes to the Allies the transfer of 70,000 Jews to Palestine, but
receives no response from Britain or the U.S.
00 - |Holocaust| Greek Jews
are ordered into ghettos.
02 - |WW II ?| End of the
Battle of Stalingrad in Russia with German surrender.
11 - General Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
27 - |Holocaust| Jews working in
Berlin armaments industry are sent to Auschwitz.
MARCH
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00 - |Holocaust| All Croatian Jews are made to register with the police
00 - Fourth Offensive
00 - Djilas negotiates with Germans. Hitler ?+ orders end to negotiations
00 - |Holocaust ?+| The start
of deportations of Jews from Greece to Auschwitz, lasting until August, totaling 49,900 persons.
01 - In New York, American Jews hold a mass rally at Madison Square Garden
to pressure the U.S. government into helping the Jews of Europe
14 - |Holocaust| The Krakow Ghetto
is liquidated.
17 - |Holocaust| Bulgaria states
opposition to deportation of its Jews.
22 - |Holocaust| Newly built gas
chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz.
30 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's first collaboration, Oklahoma!, opens on Broadway.
31 - |Holocaust| Newly built gas
chamber/crematory II opens at Auschwitz.
APRIL
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04 - |Holocaust ?+| Newly
built gas chamber/crematory V opens at Auschwitz.
09 - |Holocaust| Exterminations at
Chelmno cease. The camp will be reactivated in the spring of 1944 to
liquidate ghettos. In all, Chelmno will total 300,000 deaths.
19 - Dr. Albert Hofman at Sandoz in Basle, Switzerland,
resynthesizes LSD-25 in a search for a cure for
migraines, and has visions. LSD was first synthesis 1938
19 - The Bermuda
Conference occurs as representatives from the U.S. and Britain discuss the problem of refugees
from Nazi-occupied countries; Results in inaction concerning the plight of the Jews.
[u.30]
19 - |Holocaust| Waffen SS attacks
Jewish Resistance in Warsaw Ghetto.
25 - Easter occurs on the latest possible date. Last time
1886 next time 2038.
MAY
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00 - Fifth Offensive (Operation Schwarz)
00 - |Holocaust ?+| SS Dr. Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz.
05 - Germans issue order to shoot after interrogation anyone fighting
against the Wehrmacht
13 - |WW II ?| German and
Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allies.
14 - German troops disarm and imprison c2000 Montenegrin Chetniks
[u.16]
19 - |Holocaust| Nazis declare
Berlin to be Judenfrei (cleansed of Jews).
JUNE
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10 - Yugoslavia joins UNRRA
11 - |Holocaust ?+|
Heinrich Himmler + orders liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland.
13 - Formation of the Zemaljsko antifasisticko vijece narodnog oslobodjenja Hrvatske (Anti-Fascist Council of the National Liberation of Croatia, or ZAVNOH) at Otocac
22 - Churchill states that aid of Yugoslav Partisans should have "priority even over the bombing of Germany"
25 - |Holocaust| Newly built gas
chamber/crematory III opens at Auschwitz. With its completion, the four new crematories at
Auschwitz have a daily capacity of 4,756 bodies.
26 - New cabinet of Yugoslavian government-in-exile, led by Milos Trifunovic; Jovanovic remains as Vice Premier
JULY
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9,10 - |WW II ?| Allies invade Sicily
25 - King Victor Emmanuel III dismisses Mussolini +
25 - In Italy the Gran Consiglio del Fascismo retires its consent to
Mussolini; Mussolini is arrested and the power is given to Maresciallo d'Italia Gen.
Pietro Badoglio.
26 - British Chief of Staff order extra air transport for the
Yugoslav Partisans "if necessary at the expense of supply to the resistance groups in
Western Europe"; Field Marshal von Weichs replaces Löhr as C-in-C of Army Group Southeast
AUGUST
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02 - |Holocaust ?+| Two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp during a revolt. Nazis then hunt them down one by one.
10 - King Peter II constructs a non-party government-in-exile under
Bozidar Puric
16 - |Holocaust| The Bialystok Ghetto is liquidated.
00 - I|Holocaust| Exterminations cease at Treblinka, after an estimated 870,000 deaths.
SEPTEMBER
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00 - |Holocaust ?+| The Vilna and
Minsk Ghettos are liquidated.
07 - NDH declares war on Italy
08 - Maresciallo d'Italia Gen. Pietro Badoglio subscribes the armistice
with Allied troops.
08 - Germany occupies Italy and Italian-occupied areas in Yugoslavia
and Albania
11 - |WW II ?| Germans occupy
Rome, after occupying northern and central Italy.
11 - |Holocaust| Beginning of Jewish family transports from
Theresienstadt to Auschwitz.
17 - Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean dispatched to Tito
28 - Yugoslavian government-in-exile moves from London to Cairo
late - Germany recognizes the independence of Albania, but continues
to occupy it
OCTOBER
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00 - Formation of Slovenski Narodnoosvobodilni Svet (Slovene National Liberation Committee, or SNOS)
00 - |Holocaust ?+| The Danish
Underground helps transport 7,220 Danish Jews to safety in Sweden by sea.
04 - |Holocaust|
Heinrich Himmler + talks openly about the Final Solution at Posen.
14 - |Holocaust| Massive escape
from Sobibor as Jews and Soviet POWs break out, with 300 making it safely into nearby woods.
Of those 300, fifty will survive. Exterminations then cease at Sobibor, after over 250,000
deaths. All traces of the death camp are then removed and trees are planted.
16 - |Holocaust| Jews in Rome
rounded up, with over 1,000 sent to Auschwitz.
NOVEMBER
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00 - |Holocaust| The U.S. Congress holds hearings regarding the U.S. State
Department's inaction regarding European Jews, despite mounting reports of mass extermination.
03 - |Holocaust| Nazis carry out Operation Harvest Festival in occupied
Poland, killing 42,000 Jews.
06 - Maclean sends memo to Churchill +¢ stating
that Partisans are more militarily effective than Chetniks
15 - Establishment of Crnogorska Antifasisticka skupstina narodnog
oslobodjenja Crne Gore i Boke (Montenegrin Anti-Fascist Parliament for the People's Liberation
of Montenegro and the Bay, or CASNO)
29 - Second Session of AVNOJ declares that it will set up a provisional
government and abandon the monarchy after the war; Tito proclaimed as Marshal by AVNOJ
00 - |Holocaust ?+| The Riga Ghetto is liquidated.
04 - |Holocaust| Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, published by
Julius Streicher -
"It is actually true that the Jews have, so to speak, disappeared from
Europe and that the Jewish 'Reservoir of the East' from which the Jewish pestilence has for
centuries beset the peoples of Europe has ceased to exist. But the Führer of the German people
at the beginning of the war prophesied what has now come to pass."
11 - |Holocaust| Auschwitz Kommandant Höss is promoted to chief inspector of concentration camps. The new kommandant, Liebehenschel, then divides up the vast Auschwitz complex of over 30 sub-camps into three main sections.
DECEMBER
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00 - Churchill decides to abandon Mihailovic
02 - |Holocaust ?+| The first transport of Jews from Vienna arrives at Auschwitz.
16 - |Holocaust| The chief surgeon at Auschwitz reports that 106 castration operations have been performed.
30 - Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
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