* 1943 – Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.

After Kristallnacht in 1938, thousands of the city's Jews were imprisoned in the nearby Sachsenhausen concentration camp or, in early 1943, were shipped to death camps, such as Auschwitz.

Besides those six camps, there existed the little-known Maly Trostenets extermination camp, at Minsk, Belarus, in the anti-Communist Lokot Republic ( July 1942 – August 1943 ) established in the Nazi-occupied USSR ; similar camps existed at Warsaw and Janowska.

Himmler visited the camp at Sobibor in early 1943, by which time 250, 000 people had been killed at that location alone.

The camp was dismantled by December 1943.

50 stills from the filming in Krün near Mittenwald were later found and from these, surviving prisoners were able to identify 29 camp inmates who worked for Riefenstahl and were then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the first weeks of March 1943 following Himmler ’ s December 1942 decree.

* 1943 – Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

* 1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg ( Lviv ), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6, 000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.

* 1943 – Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more.

On October 13, 1943, the Peenemünde prisoners from the small F-1 concentration camp boarded rail cars bound for Kohnstein mountain.

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany Frisch was imprisoned in Bredtveit concentration camp from 17 October 1943, then in Berg concentration camp from 22 November 1943, then in Grini concentration camp from 9 December 1943 to 8 October 1944.

On 11 March 1943, Skopje's entire Jewish population of 3, 286 was transferred by Bulgarian occupying forces to the Nazis and deported to the gas chambers of Treblinka concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.

Between April 1942 and October 1943, at least 160, 000 people are killed in the camp.

Between December 1941-April 1943 and June 1944-January 1945 at least 153, 000 people are killed in the camp.

While witnessing a 1943 raid on the Kraków Ghetto, where soldiers were used to round up the inhabitants for shipment to the concentration camp at Płaszów, Schindler was appalled by the murder of many of the Jews who had been working for him.

* In the film Empire of the Sun, a young boy ( played by Christian Bale ) is put to bed by his loving parents in a scene also inspired by a Rockwell painting — a reproduction of which is later kept by the young boy during his captivity in a prison camp (" Freedom from Fear ", 1943 ).

On August 15, 1943, the Białystok Ghetto Uprising began, and several hundred Polish Jews and members of the Anti-Fascist Military Organisation () started an armed struggle against the German troops who were carrying out the planned liquidation of the ghetto with deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp.

For example, antibacterial selection within whole bacterial populations for strains having previously acquired antibacterial-resistance genes was demonstrated in 1943 by the Luria – Delbrück experiment.

* 1943 – Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

* 1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.

** The latest possible date for Easter Sunday, last in 1943.

It enjoyed a nine-week run and encouraged the duo to join forces with Arthur Pierson for What's Up ?, which opened on Broadway in 1943.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

The thermosetting phenolic resin was at one point considered for the manufacture of coins, due to a shortage of traditional material ; in 1943, Bakelite and other non-metal materials were tested for usage for the one cent coin in the US before the Mint settled on zinc-coated steel.

He simplified his style and language even further for his next collection of verse, Early Trains ( 1943 ).

During the summer of 1943 – 44, he played for tips at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker.

The Victory Garden, that initial ten-page story published in April, 1943 was the first of about 500 stories featuring the Disney ducks Barks would produce for Western Publishing over the next three decades, well into his purported retirement.

1943 ), Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

* The Human Comedy ( 1943 )-Academy Award nominations for Best Director and for Best Picture

He made two further disc recordings for Linguaphone in 1943 and 1956.

In 1943 he wrote and recorded a fifteen minute talk entitled " Reminiscences of Childhood " for the Welsh BBC.

" He also served as a columnist for Harper's Magazine from 1938 to 1943.

The camps at Treblinka, Bełżec, and Sobibor, were constructed during Operation Reinhard ( October 1941 – November 1943 ), for the extermination of Poland's Jews.

* Klaus Scherer ( born 1943 ) – Swiss psychologist and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva ; he specializes in the psychology of emotion

The term Neorealism was used for the first time for Luchino Visconti ’ s Ossessione ( 1943 ): it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film.

Of these, Humphrey Jennings ' trilogy of war films – Listen to Britain ( 1942 ), Fires Were Started ( 1943 ) and A Diary for Timothy ( 1945 )-are generally regarded as the most artistically significant.

After dating for nine months, the couple were married on October 30, 1943.

* 1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

In October 1943, shortly before he was to be arrested by the German police, Niels Bohr escaped to Sweden with his family, later travelling to London and on to work on the Manhattan Project.

* 1983 – Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver ( b. 1943 )

In 1943 the German biblical scholar Martin Noth suggested that this history was composed by a single author / editor, living in the time of the Exile ( 6th century BCE ).

* Wilhelm Biltz ( 1877 – 1943 ), German chemist and scientific editor

( German armed forces, June 1943 )

Later, following the German surrender in January 1943, roughly 100, 000 German soldiers were taken prisoner of war ( POW ).

* Sale, Tony, The Colossus Computer 1943 – 1996: How It Helped to Break the German Lorenz Cipher in WWII ( M .& M.

* 1943 – Bodo Tümmler, German middle-distance runner

* 1943 – World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

February 14, 1943 ) was a German mathematician.

* 1943 – World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.

* 1943 – World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.

* 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.

* 1943 – Gert Wünsche, German footballer

Mussolini was rescued from arrest by German forces and led the German client state, the Italian Social Republic from 1943 to 1945.

During World War II the city experienced a year-long German occupation ( 1943 – 1944 ) and was declared an open city.

Soviet partisans hanged by German forces in January 1943

The first five months of 1943 witnessed thousands of arrests and executions as the Gestapo exercised their powers over the German public.

The German opposition was in an unenviable position by the late spring and early summer of 1943.

From 1943 forward, he was both Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo ( Secret State Police ).

On 4 October 1943, during a secret meeting with top SS officials in the city of Poznań ( Posen ), and on 6 October 1943, in a speech to the party elite — the Gau and Reich leaders — Himmler referred explicitly to the " extermination " ( German: Ausrottung ) of the Jewish people.