Holocaust timeline 1942

1 - 19 January 1942	Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.
20 January 1942	Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution."
31 January 1942	SS Einsatzgruppe A reports a tally of 229,052 Jews killed.
1 - 16 March 1942	In occupied Poland, Belzec extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with permanent gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.
17 March 1942	The deportation of Jews from Lublin to Belzec.
24 March 1942	The start of deportation of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz.
27 March 1942	The start of deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz.
28 March 1942	Fritz Sauckel named Chief of Manpower to expedite recruitment of slave labor.
30 March 1942	First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz.
1 - 19 April 1942	First transports of Jews arrive at Majdanek.
20 April 1942	German Jews are banned from using public transportation.
1 - 17 May 1942	In occupied Poland, Sobibor extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with three gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.
18 May 1942	The New York Times reports on an inside page that Nazis have machine-gunned over 100,000 Jews in the Baltic states, 100,000 in Poland and twice as many in western Russia.
27 May 1942	SS leader Heydrich is mortally wounded by Czech Underground agents.
1 June 1942	Gas vans used in Riga. Jews in France, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania ordered to wear yellow stars.
4 June 1942	Heydrich dies of his wounds.
5 June 1942	SS report 97,000 persons have been "processed" in mobile gas vans.
10 June 1942	Nazis liquidate Lidice in retaliation for Heydrich's death.
11 June 1942	Eichmann meets with representatives from France, Belgium and Holland to coordinate deportation plans for Jews.
30 June 1942	At Auschwitz, a second gas chamber, Bunker II (the white farmhouse), is made operational at Birkenau due to the number of Jews arriving.
30 June - 2 July 1942	The New York Times reports via the London Daily Telegraph that over 1,000,000 Jews have already been killed by Nazis. Swiss representatives of the World Jewish Congress receive information from a German industrialist regarding the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews. They then pass the information on to London and Washington. Jews from Berlin sent to Theresienstadt.
7 July 1942	Himmler grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz.
14 July 1942	Beginning of deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.
16 July 1942	12,887 Jews of Paris are rounded up and sent to Drancy Internment Camp located outside the city. A total of approximately 74,000 Jews, including 11,000 children, will eventually be transported from Drancy to Auschwitz, Majdanek and Sobibor.
17 July 1942	Himmler visits Auschwitz-Birkenau for two days, inspecting all ongoing construction and expansion, then observes the extermination process from start to finish as two trainloads of Jews arrive from Holland. Kommandant Höss is then promoted. Construction includes four large gas chamber/crematories.
19 July 1942	Himmler orders Operation Reinhard, mass deportations of Jews in Poland to extermination camps.
22 July 1942	Beginning of deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the new extermination camp, Treblinka. Also, beginning of the deportation of Belgian Jews to Auschwitz.
23 July 1942	Treblinka extermination camp opened in occupied Poland, east of Warsaw. The camp is fitted with two buildings containing 10 gas chambers, each holding 200 persons. Carbon monoxide gas is piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but Zyklon-B will later be substituted. Bodies are burned in open pits.
1 - 22 August 1942	The start of deportations of Croatian Jews to Auschwitz.
23 August 1942	Beginning of German Army attack on Stalingrad in Russia.
26 - 28 August 1942	7,000 Jews arrested in unoccupied France.
9 September 1942	Open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial. The decision is made to dig up and burn those already buried, 107,000 corpses, to prevent fouling of ground water.
18 September 1942	Reduction of food rations for Jews in Germany.
26 September 1942	SS begins cashing in possessions and valuables of Jews from Auschwitz and Majdanek. German banknotes are sent to the Reichs Bank. Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration. Watches, clocks and pens are distributed to troops at the front. Clothing is distributed to German families. By February 1943, over 800 boxcars of confiscated goods will have left Auschwitz.
5 October 1942	Himmler orders all Jews in concentration camps in Germany to be sent to Auschwitz and Majdanek. A German eyewitness observes SS mass murder.
14 October 1942	Mass killing of Jews from Mizocz Ghetto in the Ukraine.
22 October 1942	SS put down a revolt at Sachsenhausen by a group of Jews about to be sent to Auschwitz.
25 October 1942	Deportations of Jews from Norway to Auschwitz begin.
28 October 1942	The first transport from Theresienstadt arrives at Auschwitz.
1 - 30 November 1942	The mass killing of 170,000 Jews in the area of Bialystok.
10 December 1942	The first transport of Jews from Germany arrives at Auschwitz.
11 - 16 December 1942	Exterminations at Belzec cease after an estimated 600,000 Jews have been murdered. The camp is then dismantled, plowed over and planted.
17 December 1942	British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons the Nazis are "now carrying into effect Hitler's oft repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe." The U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged.
28 December 1942	Sterilization experiments on women at Birkenau begin.

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