World War II Chronicle: June 4, 1943
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The front page reports that Nile Kinnick, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner, has been killed in action. Kinnick is a Naval aviator serving aboard an aircraft carrier. More to come… On page nine we learn that the SS has emptied out Poland’s Warsaw Ghetto. At one point, half a million Jews were crowded into a neighborhood which covered only about one square mile. Many thousands died of starvation and malnutrition. The Nazis had evacuated most of the residents over the past few months to concentration camps, but on April 19 — Passover eve — the SS had surrounded the ghetto and ordered the remaining Jews to surrender.
Jewish resistance by this time knew that they would be sent to extermination camps, so they attacked the Germans, killing and wounding dozens. Retribution was terrible. Tens of thousands are killed by the Nazi paramilitary forces and police, either by gunfire or by their buildings being blown up and burned down. The operation concluded on May 16, when the Germans blew up Warsaw’s Great Synagogue…
Sports section begins on page 16.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 4 June 1943. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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