State Department Confirms the Holocaust

November 15, 1942 - Lila Millen turns five years old while hiding with her sister Anne Levy in the Warsaw ghetto.

click Lila Millen: Hiding in Factory

November 24, 1943 – Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles hands over documents to Rabbi Stephen Wise that “confirm and justify your deepest fears.”

The Times-Picayune, November 26, 1942 - REDS BOOST NAZI LOSSES TO 238,000 IN CAPTURE OF KEY RIVER JUNCTION, (AP) p. 1 (entire front page) Image description
The Times-Picayune, November 26, 1942 - REDS BOOST NAZI LOSSES TO 238,000 IN CAPTURE OF KEY RIVER JUNCTION, p. 1 (column) Image description
The Times-Picayune, November 26, 1942 - GERMANS KILLING 5,000,000 JEWS IN EUROPE, IS CLAIM, Dr. Wise Orders Mourning Period December 13 Over Slaughter, (AP) p. 2 Image description

United Nations War Crimes Declaration

December 17, 1942 - The United Nations announces a War Crimes Declaration that focuses on the Jewish catastrophe in Europe and promises retribution against the Nazi murderers.

The Times-Picayune, December 18, 1942 - ALLIES TO PUNISH SLAYERS OF JEWS AT END OF WAR, Practical Steps Being Taken to Catalogue Guilty, Says Hull, (AP) p. 14 Image description

1943

January 8-9, 1943 - Jews in the Lubaczow ghetto are deported to a death camp.

Eva Galler: Jumping from Death Train

Eva Galler: Christian Help

January 1943 - With their parents the sisters Anne Levy and Lila Millen are smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto and given shelter by a Polish family.

Anne Levy: Christian Help

March 1943 - Siggy Boraks is transported from the Czestochowa ghetto to Blizyn labor camp.

Siggy Boraks: Prisoner Escapes from Blizyn