Jistory

Place in Greece

What happened to the Jews in Dodecanese

16 events, 88 BC to 1944 AD

1st century BC

  1. c. 88 BC Mithridates seizes Jewish silver deposited on Kos · Kos, Greece

15th century

  1. 1480 AD Jewish houses demolished and synagogue abandoned in Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece
  2. 1481–1482 AD Earthquakes destroy the Jewish quarter of Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece
  3. c. 1498–1500 AD Knights of St. John order expulsion of unbaptized Jews from Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece
  4. c. 1500–1522 AD Captured Jews enslaved on Rhodes by the Knights · Rhodes, Greece

16th century

  1. 1502 AD Banishment of the Jews of Kos by the Knights of Rhodes · Kos, Greece
  2. 1502 AD D'Aubusson decrees expulsion of the Jews from Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece

19th century

  1. 1840 AD Rhodes blood libel · Rhodes, Greece
  2. 1840 AD Sultan's firman voids ritual murder accusations · Rhodes, Greece
  3. 1850 AD Ritual murder accusation against the Jews of Kos · Kos, Greece
  4. 1851 AD Mutilation of a Jewish corpse at Kos · Kos, Greece

20th century

  1. c. 1919 AD Expulsion of Jewish newcomers from Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece
  2. 1938 AD Italian racial laws imposed on Jews of Kos · Kos, Greece
  3. 1944 AD 1944: Deportation of Jews from the Island of Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece
  4. 1944 AD Deportation of the Jews of Kos to Auschwitz · Kos, Greece
  5. 1944 AD Greek Jews in Rhodes are deported to Auschwitz · Rhodes, Greece

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