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January 20, 1942 -- Wannsee Conference: Details of plan to murder 11,000,000 European Jews are drafted.
January 21, 1942 -- Unified partisan organization is established in the Vilna ghetto. Resistance organization set upon Kovno ghetto.
January 30, 1942 -- Hitler speaks at the Sports Palace in Berlin, "The war will end with the complete annihilation of the Jews."
January 31, 1942 -- Einsatzgruppen A alone reports 229,052 Jews killed in the Baltic states.
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January 1, 1942 -- Allies sign Declaration of United Nations.
January 1, 1942 -- Frank Sinkwich leads Georgia to Orange Bowl title over Texas at 40-26.
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February 15, 1942 -- Singapore falls to the Japanese.
February 27, 1942 -- The allies are routed in the Battle of the Java Sea.
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February 24, 1942 -- The Struma, a small cattle boat with 769 Jewish refugees that were turned away from Israel by the British is torpedoed by a Russian submarine, leaving one survivor.
February-March 1942 -- 14,000 Jews in Chortkow, Ukraine, are murdered.
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February 1942 -- Nobel prize ceremonies, discontinued in Stockholm since 1939, take place at the Waldorf Astoria, New York. |
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March 1942 -- 88 Allied and neutral ships are torpedoed by U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean.
March 8, 1942 -- First Japanese landings in New Guinea.
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March 1942 -- 1,000 Theresiestadt Jews are deported to the new Belzec death camp. Only six survive the war.
March 1942 -- All Dutch Jews are concentrated into the Jewish quarters in Amsterdam.
March 1, 1942 -- Extermination begins at Sobibor. 250,000 Jews will perish there by October 1943.
March 2, 1942 -- Ten Jews are hung in Zdunsk Wola near Lodz as substitutes for "the 10 hanged sons of Haman."
March 17, 1942 -- Lublin Jews are deported to Belzec. Extermination begins at Belzec.
March 24, 1942 -- Slovac Jews are deported to Auschwitz.
March 27, 1942 -- Beginning of deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz.
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March 1942 -- Jewish aid organization reports based on eyewitness accounts that the Nazis have already massacred 240,000 Jews in Ukraine alone.
March 1942 -- "Mrs. Miniver" by William Wyler opens and wins three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (Greer Garson).
March 27, 1942 -- Japanese still residing in California are told they must evacuate within 24 hours of receiving orders.
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April 10, 1942 -- Japanese capture Bataan and 36,000 troops. |
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April 1942 -- Einsatzkommando unit reports to Berlin that more than 90,000 Jews have been murdered in Crimea in the previous four and a half months. |
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April 1942 -- "Daylight Savings Time" makes its first appearance. |
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May 1942 -- 120 Allied and neutral vessels are sunk by U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean.
May 6, 1942 -- Surrender at Corregidor.
May 8, 1942 -- The Japanese are defeated at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
May 27, 1942 -- SS leader Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded by Czech underground agents. He dies on June 4.
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May 18, 1942 -- New York Times, on the inside page, reports over 100,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis in the Baltic states, 100,000 in Poland, and over 200,000 in Western Russia. |
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May 1942 -- Wendell Wilkie brings 80 paintings and drawings from China to the Metropolitan Museum for display. |
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June 6, 1942 -- Japanese are turned back at the Battle of Midway.
June 8, 1942 -- Eisenhower is appointed Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations.
June 8, 1942 -- Tobruk in the African Desert falls to Germans; Axis claims 25,000 prisoners.
June 28, 1942 -- Germany and Italian Armies reach El Alamein, prepare for attack in Suez area.
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June 1942 -- In the Warsaw ghetto more than 100,000 Jews have died of disease and starvation.
June 1, 1942 -- Treblinka opens. 700,000 Jews perish there by August 1943.
June 5, 1942 -- Eichmann officially notes that since December 1941, 97,000 people have been "processed" in three gas-vans.
June 10, 1942 -- In reprisals for the assassination of Heydrich, the Czech town of Lidice is leveled and the entire population is murdered or deported.
June 30, 1942 -- A second gas chamber is put into use at Auschwitz due to the number of Jews.
June 30-July 2, 1942 -- The New York Times reports via the London Daily Telegraph that over 1,000,000 Jews have been killed by the Nazis.
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June 1942 -- Boy Scouts salvage 150,000 tons of waste paper for the War Effort.
June 1942 -- Jewish "Bund" report, detailing mass slaughter of 700,000 Polish Jews and Nazi plans to murder the rest, reaches America.
June 1942 -- RCA Victor sprays gold over Glenn Miller’s recording "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" for having sold more than 1 million copies -- the first "Gold Record."
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July 1942 -- Gizi Fleischman organizes the underground "working group" in Czechoslovakia.
July 1, 1942 -- Massacres of Jews in Minsk, Lida and Slonim.
July 11, 1942 -- First medical experiments are performed at Auschwitz.
July 15, 1942 -- First deportees sent from Germany and Holland to Auschwitz.
July 19, 1942 -- Himmler sends a secret directive to SS Lieutenant General F.W. Kinger ordering the "resettlement" of the entire Jewish population of the General Government, to be completed by December 31.
July 22, 1942 -- Beginning of Warsaw ghetto "Aktion." 6,000 to 7,000 a day are deported to Treblinka extermination camp.
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July 1942 -- 600,000 books are donated to the armed services in a New York Public Library two-week drive.
July 13, 1942 --United States begins the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb.
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August 7, 1942 -- U.S. troops land on Guadalcanal.
August 23, 1942 -- German amry attacks Stalingrad.
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August 1942 -- More than 155,000 are killed in Belzec; 96,000 more in September
August 1942 -- Over 100,000 are killed in Eastern territory pits; another 32,000 in September
August 4, 1942 -- Beginning of deportations from Belgium to Auschwitz.
August 9, 1942 -- Armed resistance during liquidation of Mir Ghetto.
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August 1942 -- Gandhi announces his new campaign of civil disobedience to force Britain to leave India.
August 28, 1942 -- Reigner cable is sent to Stephen S. Wise - specifying Nazi plans to exterminate almost 4 million Jews.
August 29, 1942 -- American Jewish conference meets in New York to discuss agenda of Jewish Unity (Rescue vs. Zionist program).
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September 2, 1942 -- The Chief Rabbi of Norway, Julues Samuel, refuses to go into hiding and chooses to join 208 Norwegian Jews sent to Bergen Belsen.
September 9, 1942 -- New policy of open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz. 107,000 bodies are exhumed from mass graves and burned to prevent fouling ground water.
September 24, 1942 -- 3,000 Tuczyn Jews are killed after resisting and escaping a Nazi attack. Only 15 survive.
September 25, 1942 -- 2,000 Jews are deported to Treblinka after a Jewish council chairman, Abraham Gamzu, refuses Gestapo demands to deliver Jews.
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September 1942 -- State Department grants permission for 5,000 Jewish children to enter U.S. Initiative fails because of Vichy government stalling.
September 1942 -- Representative Emanuel Celler introduces a bill into the House for the opening of U.S. doors to French refugees. The bill dies in committee.
September 2, 1942 -- Sternbuch cable arrives at the Polish embassy in Washington, recounting the deportation of 100,000 Jews from Warsaw to death camps, and how Jewish babies were being used to produce soap and fertilizer for Germany industry.
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October 1942 -- Over 58,000 are killed in Belzec.
October 1942 -- 82,000 are deported to Treblinka and gassed; 17,000 are also deported to Sobibor and gassed.
October 1942 -- Over 80,000 are killed in Eastern territory pits.
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October 1942 -- Morton Cooper of St. Louis wins Most Valuable Player as St. Louis wins 4-1 over the Yankees in the World Series.
October 25, 1942 -- In England, milk is rationed at two-and-a-half pints per week.
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November 2, 1942 -- British victories in battle for El-Alamein.
November 8, 1942 -- U.S. forces land in French Africa with British naval and air units assisting.
November 12, 1942 -- North Africa west of Algiers is subdued by Allied forces.
November 19, 1942 -- Major counter-attack by Red Army in the Stalingrad region.
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November 9, 1942 -- First 4,000 Lublin Jews are brought to be killed at the newly-organized camp at Majdanek, located outside Lublin.
November 24, 1942 -- The State Department confirms the existence of Nazi extermination camps and the murder of two million Jews to date.
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November 1942 -- Shostakovitch’s Symphony #7 is sent to the U.S. on microfilm through enemy lines before its performance by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony.
November 29, 1942 -- Coffee rationing begins in the U.S.
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December 1942 -- Over 30,000 Yugoslavian Jews are starved, tortured and shot in 4 camps. 4,500 escape and join the partisans; of these, 1,318 are killed in battle. |
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December 1942 -- Don Hutson of the Green Bay Packers sets an NFL season scoring record, with 138 points on 17 touchdowns.
December 2, 1942 -- Enrico Fermi and the University of Chicago team produce the first controlled nuclear fission.
December 17, 1942 -- Allies condemn the Nazis for murdering Jews.
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