Written by zachor_foundation on August 4, 2020
May: Ben and entire family are forced to leave their homes and are crowded into cattle cars for deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ben, Uncle and Cousin Isaac bunk together for two weeks in Birkenau.
June: Ben, Uncle and Cousin Isaac were transported by truck to Durnhau Rock Quarry Labor Subcamp within the Gross-Rosen Concentration camp. They lived in the barracks in the subcamp for nearly a year working in the quarry, while Ben’s uncle worked in the kitchen. Abruptly, they were separated
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Written by zachor_foundation on August 4, 2020
January: Responding to political pressure to help Jews under Nazi control, President Roosevelt creates the War Refugee Board
March: Germans occupy Hungary
President Roosevelt issues a statement condemning German and Japanese ongoing “crimes against humanity”
May: Beginning of deportation of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz
Written by zachor_foundation on August 4, 2020
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
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