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In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the Western Allies on the situation in German-occupied Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the secretive German-Nazi extermination camps.
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.
In the last quarter of 1942, thanks to the Polish emissary Jan Karski and his mission, and also by other means, the Governments of the United Kingdom and of the United States were well informed about what was going on in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The British intelligence service had information about the concentration camps, and in 1942 Jan Karski delivered a thorough eyewitness account to the government.
During the war, especially from 1942 on, the Polish Government in Exile provided the Allies with some of the earliest and most accurate accounts of the ongoing Holocaust of European Jews and, through its representatives, like the Foreign Minister Count Edward Raczynski and the courier of the Polish Underground movement, Jan Karski, called for action, without success, to stop it.
In the middle of 1942, Jan Karski, who had been serving as a courier between the Polish underground and the Polish government in exile, was smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto.

1942 and was
In 1942, however, the nation was at war.
The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.
Work on Volume 2, was begun in 1941, interrupted by the war in 1942, and resumed in 1945.
The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
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.
It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.
It was successfully tested in 1942.
The term antibiotic was first used in 1942 by Selman Waksman and his collaborators in journal articles to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is antagonistic to the growth of other microorganisms in high dilution.
His father was sent via Drancy to Auschwitz where he died in 1942.
Anton Drexler ( 13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942 ) was a German far-right political leader of the 1920s, instrumental in the formation of the anti-communist German Workers ' Party.
He encouraged technical investigation, and was Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the first technical journal, Technical Studies, in the Field of the Fine Arts, published by the Fogg from 1932 to 1942.
Instead he wrote radio scripts, including Your Hit Parade, until he was introduced to Austrian composer Frederick Loewe, who needed a partner, in 1942 at the Lamb's Club.
Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.
This ship was originally named the USS Kearsarge, but was renamed in honor of the previous Hornet CV-8 ( famous for the Doolittle raid ), which was lost in October 1942.
In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.
During a 1935 – 1942 colonization attempt, the island was most likely on Hawaii time, which was then 10. 5 hours behind UTC .< ref > Since it is uninhabited the island's time zone is unspecified, but it lies within a nautical time zone 12 hours behind UTC.
A resistance movement called Otechestven front ( Fatherland front, Bulgarian: Отечествен фронт ) was set up in August 1942 by the Communist Party, the Zveno movement and a number of other parties to oppose the elected government, after a number of Allied victories indicated that the Axis might lose the War.
From 1942 to 1948, the Negro League World Series was revived.

1942 and selected
Nasser was determined to establish the independence of the army from the monarchy, and with Amer as an intermediary, resolved to field a nominee for the Free Officers ; they selected Muhammad Naguib, a popular general who had offered his resignation to Farouk in 1942 over British high-handedness and was thrice wounded in the Palestine War.
Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, was selected as the headquarters and main base for the offensive, codenamed Operation Watchtower, with the commencement date set for August 7, 1942.
In October 1942 Groves and Oppenheimer inspected sites in New Mexico, where they selected a suitable location for the laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
In September 1942, the Germans ordered all ghetto residents to report at Targowica Square, where they were subjected to a " Selektion " ( selection ) in which those deemed " unessential " were selected out for deportation to Belzec.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, which was filmed in 1942 and early 1943, but not released until 1944, was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and in 2001 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".
In May 1942, during World War II, the town was selected by the War Department to be highlighted in a defense booklet called Southington, CT — Microcosm of America.
The base had its beginnings in 1942 when US Army Air Corps officials selected the site of the present-day base to be the home of Sedalia Army Air Field and a training base for WACO glider pilots.
In 1942 Lynch was selected as Cork hurling captain once again.
The 24 crews selected picked up the modified bombers in Minneapolis and flew them to Eglin Field, Florida, beginning 1 March 1942.
In 1942 he became the Commander-in-Chief ( C-in-C ) of Fighter Command before being selected in 1943 to be the C-in-C of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, which made him the air commander for the Allied Invasion of Normandy.
Chaplain Goode went on active duty on August 9, 1942 and he was selected for the Chaplains School at Harvard.
Having performed well in training exercises during 1941 and early 1942, elements of the 2nd Division were selected as the main force for Operation Jubilee, a large-scale amphibious raid on the port of Dieppe in German-occupied France.
On April 27, 1942, Dreschel was selected for transfer to the newly opened Auschwitz II – Birkenau concentration camp in occupied Poland.
In April 1940, Park enrolled in the Manchukuo Imperial Army Academy, and on completing his studies with top marks in 1942, was selected for officer training at the Army Staff College in Japan.
After no players had been selected by the writers in the previous two years ( the only elections since 1942 ), the rules were revised to limit eligibility to those players who had retired after 1921 ; Frisch was among the first four players to benefit from the more reasonable field of candidates.
* International commitments include: performances for the United Nations in Cyprus ; the Military Musical Pageant, held at Wembley Stadium, in London, England ; a command performance for the colonel-in-chief, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace ; and, being selected as the official band to accompany the veterans and the official party to the United Kingdom and France to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the raid on Dieppe August 19, 1942.
After the German ball bearing " bottleneck " had been identified in 1942 and ball bearings had been named the second-most-vital Pointblank industry for the Combined Bomber Offensive in March 1943, Schweinfurt's ball bearing plants were selected for a second air raid after being bombed during the August Schweinfurt – Regensburg mission.
Barlick was selected as an umpire for the 1942 All-Star Game at the Polo Grounds, the first of 7 All-Star games he would officiate in his career.
In December 1942, Roosevelt selected Brown to take over as administrator of the Office of Price Administration, replacing Leon Henderson, whose tenure as administrator was listed as one of the major reasons for Democratic losses in the 1942 elections.
In March 1942, Bormann was one of a handful of women selected for guard duty at Auschwitz in Poland.
Immediately recognized as one of the game's best officials, he was selected to work in the World Series in 1938 after only three years ' experience ; he would later officiate the Series in 1942, 1946 and 1949 as well.
Their daughter Margaret Fairweather ( married Douglas Fairweather who established the Air Movements Flight in 1942, later joined by Margaret ) was the first woman to fly a Spitfire and was one of the original eight female pilots selected by Pauline Gower to join the Air Transport Auxiliary.
In April 1942 he was selected to attend Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia.

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