Historical Events

The dramatic pageant "We Will Never Die" premieres before an audience of 40,000 at Madison Square Garden to raise public awareness of the mass murder of European Jews.

The Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. It took the Germans a month to crush the resistance.

From September 20 into October 1943, over 7,000 Danish Jews escaped to Sweden with help from fellow Danes.

President Roosevelt issued an executive order to provide relief and rescue for Jews in Europe.

In less than two months, nearly 440,000 Jews were deported from Hungary in more than 145 trains. Most were deported to Auschwitz.

President Roosevelt calls for a “free port” for refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego, NY.

The War Refugee Board released a detailed report about mass murder by gassing at Auschwitz and Birkenau.

In his book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, Raphael Lemkin invents a new word, “genocide,” to describe the coordinated, planned destruction of a national group.

President Roosevelt talks to war-weary Americans about their role in establishing a lasting peace.

General Eisenhower invited members of Congress and journalists to see the newly liberated camps so that they could bring the horrible truth about Nazi atrocities to the American public.

The Truman Directive did not increase immigration quotas, but it required that existing quotas be filled by displaced persons.

On July 4, 1946, civilians, soldiers, and police killed 42 Polish Jews and injured 40 others in the southeastern town of Kielce.

These are noteworthy articles about Holocaust-era events that fall outside the parameters of the listed events.