1942: Final Slaughter of Innocents: Holocaust Monument

Holocaust Monument.

On January 20, the Wannsee conference was held to coordinate the destruction of European Jewry; the "Final Solution". Einsatzgruppen techniques which by late 1942 had been used to liquidate approximately 1.4 million Jews were inadequate to murder the remaining Jews of Europe and others singled out for destruction. Assembly line extermination factories equipped with gas chambers were developed.

Deportations to extermination and concentration camps began in March; 300,000 Jews from Warsaw were deported. armed resistance took place in Lachwa, Kremenets, Tuchin, Mir, and Kletsk ghettoes. Partisan units organized in forests.

Absence of identity papers, places of refuge, reluctance to abandon families, open hostility or fear of local population to get involved limited escape.

At Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Chelmno, Jews were murdered shortly after arrival. At Auschwitz and Majdanek, children and elderly, the handicapped and women unable to work were also killed upon arrival. Able-bodied teenagers and adults were used as slave labor for German industry until they too were sent to gas chambers and replaced. At Dachau, Mauthausen and other camps, Jews were worked to death or died of starvation, disease and torture.

On December 17, the Allies proclaimed that those responsible for annihilation of the Jewish people would be punished. . This historical marker was erected in 1992 by Los Angeles Museum of The Holocaust; American Congress of Jews from Poland; and Survivors of Concentration Camps.. It is in Fairfax in Los Angeles in Los Angeles County California