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* 1942 – Holocaust: Vel'd ' Hiv Roundup ( Rafle du Vel'd ' Hiv ): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13, 152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
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A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.
He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.
* 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
* 1942 – Indian leader Mohanda Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )
1942 and Holocaust
Following the Holocaust, attempts have been made to construct a new Jewish-Christian relationship of mutual respect for differences, through the inauguration of the interfaith body the Council of Christians and Jews in 1942 and International Council of Christians and Jews.
* 1942 – Holocaust: Porajmos – Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
In the early years of the Holocaust, the Jews were primarily sent to concentration camps, but from 1942 onwards they were mostly deported to the extermination camps.
* 1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
* 1942 – Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv ( Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine ).
* 1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
* 1942 – The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
( 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942 ) was a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II, and one of the main architects of the Holocaust.
In early 1942, Zyklon B had emerged as the preferred extermination tool of the Nazi regime for both the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek extermination camps during the Holocaust.
* Witte, Peter, and Tyas, Stephen, “ A New Document on the Deportation and Murder of Jews during ‘ Einsatz Reinhardt 1942 ’”, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol.
It only became worse with the years, culminating in the Holocaust, or so-called " Final Solution ", which was made official at the January 1942 Wannsee Conference.
A Holocaust memorial commemorates over 34, 000 Jews of the Brest ghetto who were killed in 1941 – 1942.
The United States ’ tight immigration policies were not lifted during the Holocaust, news of which began to reach the United States in 1941 and 1942 and it has been estimated that 190, 000 – 200, 000 Jews could have been saved during the Second World War had it not been for bureaucratic obstacles to immigration deliberately created by Breckinridge Long and others.
Unfortunately not all of his family managed to escape — his first wife Ruža died in 1942 and many from her Jewish family were killed in the Holocaust.
Schöngarth attended the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942, along with Dr. Rudolf Lange ( Einsatzgruppen A ) who had also participated in the Holocaust.
Six extermination camps ( Auschwitz, Belzec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór and Treblinka ) were established in which the most extreme measure of the Holocaust, the mass murder of millions of Jews from Poland and other countries, was carried out between 1942 and 1944.
From 1942 Karski reported to the Polish, British and U. S. governments on the situation in Poland, especially on the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust of the Jews.
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