1943

February: The Romanian government receives no response from offers to Britain and the US to transfer 70,000 Jews to Palestine
March: American Jews hold mass rally at NYC’s Madison Square Garden pressuring US government to help the Jews of Europe
Krakow Ghetto is liquidated; newly-built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz for arriving Hungarian Jews
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
April: At Bermuda Conference, U.S. and British representatives discuss problem of refugees from Nazi-occupied countries, no action results
Nazis declare Berlin to be Judenfrei (cleansed of Jews)
US Congress holds hearings about State Department’s inaction on European Jews despite mounting reports of mass exterminations.
November: Ben and brother, Tuli, transported to border in bottom of coal truck, meet Uncle at bottom of forest ravine; reunited with Lola and Mechel in Budapest; reunited with Munkacs family