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1943 February 27, "FABRIK-AKTION" FACTORY-ACTION (Berlin, Germany)
The last 10,000 Jews still working in "vital war production" were taken
directly from their factories to be deported. Seven thousand of them
were sent to Auschwitz, others were sent to Theresienstadt. More than 100
Jews labeled as Mischlinge (half-breeds) or living in a Mischehe
(racially mixed marriage) were held separately. After a mass protest
(the only one of its kind) by thousands of relatives and friends, the
Nazi released them. During the war,
over 50,000 Berliner Jews were deported to the East. A few thousand, most
of them with non-Jewish spouses, managed to survive with many of them hiding the
entire war in the city.
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