	January 1943 -- U.S. State Department is informed via Switzerland that in one Polish location 6,000 Jews a day are being killed. January 4, 1943 -- Head SS office writes to all concentration camp commanders, requesting them to forward human hair for processing at the firm of Alex Zink, Filzfabrik A.G. near Nuremberg. A half-mark would be received by the Commandant for each kilo of human hair. January 18, 1943 -- First armed resistance in the Warsaw ghetto.	January 1, 1943 -- Alabama takes the Orange Bowl’s title by beating Boston 37-21.

February 2, 1943 -- The Germans surrender at Stalingrad. Russia begins reconquest of Ukraine.	February 22, 1943 -- The Bulgarian government signs an agreement with the Germans to allow deportations from Macedonia and Thrace. 11,000 Jews are deported.	February 1943 -- Sonja Henie applies for $250,000 insurance on her remaining 5 pairs of ice-skates since ice-skates are not being produced during war-time.

March 5, 1943 -- The Japanese are routed in the Battle of Bismark Sea off New Guinea.	March 1943 -- Liquidation of the Cracow ghetto. March 10, 1943 -- In northern Bulgaria, farmers threaten to lie down on the tracks to prevent the deportation of Jews. Government rescinds the order to deport Northern Bulgarian Jews. March 22, 1943 -- Crematorium II at Birkenau is now ready for use.	March 1943 -- "Casablanca" wins the Academy awards with Michael Curtiz winning for Best Director; Paul Lukas wins the Best Actor award for his performance in "Watch on the Rhine."

	April 5, 1943 -- The third and last "Macedonian transport" reaches the Treblinka "resettlement"; all are gassed. April 19, 1943 -- Warsaw ghetto revolt; liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto continues for one month.	April 19, 1943 -- "Bermuda Conference": Fruitless discussion by U.S. and British delegates on deliverance of Nazi victims.

May 1, 1943 -- Final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins. May 5, 1943 -- U.S. decision to use atomic bomb on Japan instead of Germany.	May 16, 1943 -- Nazi officer Jergen Stroop reports to his superiors that the Warsaw ghetto is no longer in existence. According to his calculations 7,000 Jews have been killed in street fighting, 30,000 have been deported to Treblinka and 5-6,000 have perished in flames.	May 1943 -- At a War-Bond rally at Gimbels’ basement in New York City, Jack Benny’s $75 violin is bought for $1 million by Julius Klorten, president of Garcia Grande cigars.

June 11, 1943 -- An Axis garrison at Pantelleria, in the central Mediterranean area, surrenders after six days and nights of heavy bombing.	June 1943 -- Himmler orders the liquidation of all Polish and U.S.S.R. ghettos. June 7, 1943 -- Professor Clauberg in Auschwitz reports a sterilization rate of 1,000 women a day, mostly on Jewish women from Greece.	June 1943 -- Duke Ellington gives his first Carnegie Hall concert: "Black, Brown and Beige."

July 1, 1943 -- MacArthur starts the Allied offensive in the Pacific; New Guinea Isles War. July 10, 1943 -- Allied attack on Sicily begins. July 24, 1943 -- Revolt in Italy; Mussolini is deposed by Badoglio.	July 1943 -- Polish resistance courier Jan Karski gives eyewitness account of Holocaust in meeting with Roosevelt.	July 1943 -- DDT is introduced in the Unites States and hailed as a boon to farmers.

	August 2, 1943 -- Revolt in Treblinka.	August 1943 -- Selman Waksman discovers Streptomycin and coins the term "antibiotic."

September 3, 1943 -- Invasion of Italy by Allied forces; Italy secretly signs armistice with the Allies. September 9, 1943 -- The Allies land in the Naples area. September 20, 1943 -- Rome is occupied by the Germans. The German Army now controls most of Italy.	September 1943 -- Liquidation of the Minsk, Vilna and Riga ghettos begins. September 18, 1943 -- Most of the 2,000 deported Minsk Jews are killed in Sobibor.	September 1943 -- A bill is introduced to allow refugees who won’t endanger public safety to be allowed to enter the U.S. temporarily. The bill dies in office.

October 1, 1943 -- Clark’s forces enter Naples, Italy.	October 2, 1943 -- Orders are given for the expulsion of all Danish Jews. Thanks to Danish underground operations, only 415 Jews are captured by the Germans. 7,000 are evacuated to Sweden. October 13, 1943 -- 600 prisoners of Sobibor's Camp #1 revolt and try to escape. One crematorium is destroyed. Most of the prisoners are eventually caught and killed.	October 1943 -- Stan Musial wins the batting crown for the St. Louis National League team with an average of .357. October 6, 1943 -- 400 Orthodox rabbis march on Washington from the Capitol to the White House. The President refuses to see them. However, as a result, public hearings on rescue in the House and Senate are held.

	November 2, 1943 -- In a few days, 50,000 Jews in the Lublin region are deported and shot in ditches behind the Majdanek gas chambers.	November 10, 1943 -- The U.S. State Department demolishes FDR’s plan to set up refugee camps in North Africa and Southern Europe. November 28, 1943 -- Teheran Conference: Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill meet.

December 2, 1943 -- Sixteen Allied vessels are lost by Axis bombing at Bari, eastern Italy.