July 1942

Thursday 09:

Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

Monday 13:

World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Thursday 16:

Holocaust: The Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval orders French police officers to round up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.

Saturday 18:

World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time.

Sunday 19:

German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast postions in response to the an effective American convoy system.

Monday 20:

World War II: Red Army troops take bridgeheads over the Don River near Voronezh.

Wednesday 22:

Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.

Thursday 23:

1942- The Treblinka extermination camp is opened

Tuesday 28:

World War II: USSR leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately killed.