World 15,000 murders a day: August-October 1942 were the Holocaust’s deadliest months January 2, 2019 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Comments Off on 15,000 murders a day: August-October 1942 were the Holocaust’s deadliest months The killing only stopped when there was no one left to murder: From August to October 1942, 1.2 million Jews were slain in the Nazi death camps.