Deportation of Jews from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka
Nazi occupiers and Polish collaborators begin the deportation of approximately 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Deportation of Jews from Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Nazi occupiers and Dutch collaborators begin deporting Jews from the Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In a little over two years, more than 100,000 Jews will be deported to Nazi camps; only c. 5000 of them survived.
Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in Amsterdam
13-year-old Anne Frank, her older sister Margot, and their parents Otto and Edith Frank go into hiding in the "secret annex" in Amsterdam. They are later joined by Hermann, Augusta and Peter van Pels, as well as by Fritz Pfeffer.
First deportation of Jews from Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Nazi and French collaborators begin the first of 62 mass deportations of Jews from the French transit camp of Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Other transit camps in the Netherlands and Belgium will begin deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau within weeks.
Mass deportations from Krakow ghetto
Beginning in June 1942, Jews are deported from the Krakow ghetto to killing centers at Belzec and Auschwitz, and to forced labor camps.