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January 29, 1943:
The Nazis ordered all Gypsies arrested and sent to the extermination camps.

February 2, 1943:
German 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.

March 14, 1943:
Liquidation of the Crakow ghetto in Poland.

March 22, 1943:
First of four new crematoriums at Auschwitz ready for use.

April 19, 1943:
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising began as the Nazis attempted to liquidate the inhabitants. In all, 7,000 Jews are killed while fighting. 30,000 sent to Treblinka.

June 7, 1943:
Dr. Carl Clauberg reported that 1,000 women a day are sterilized at Auschwitz.

June 11, 1943:
Himmler ordered the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland.

July 10, 1943:
The Allies landed in Sicily.

August, 1943:
The deathcamp Treblinka dismantled after an estimated 870,000 deaths.

October 1, 1943:
The Danes rescued the Danish Jewry, over 7,000 Danish Jews, to safety in Sweden.

November 3, 1943:
The Nazis carried out Operation Harvest Festival in Poland, killing over 40,000 Jews.

December 2, 1943:
The first transport of Jews from Vienna arrived at Auschwitz.

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