Jistory

Place in Poland

What happened to the Jews in Silesia

67 events, 1190 AD to 1945 AD

12th century

  1. c. 1190 AD Breslau Jews blamed for a fire · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland

13th century

  1. 1226 AD Bishop Lorenz imposes Leibzoll and tithes on Silesian Jews · Silesia, Poland
  2. 1227 AD Tithes imposed on Jewish farmers in Beuthen district · Bytom (Beuthen), Poland
  3. 1266 AD Council of Breslau orders segregation and restrictions on Jews · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  4. 1267 AD Church councils of Breslau and Vienna mandate the Jewish pointed hat · Silesia, Poland and elsewhere
  5. 1267 AD Synod of Breslau enacts restrictions on Jews · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  6. 1270 AD Duke Henry IV grants privilege regulating Jewish status · Silesia, Poland

14th century

  1. 1315 AD Autos da fé against Jews in Breslau, Schweidnitz and Neisse · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  2. 1315 AD Cities granted Jewish poll and land taxes · Silesia, Poland
  3. 1319 AD Expulsion of Jews from Breslau · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  4. 1345 AD Jewish cemeteries opened for use of tombstones as building material · Silesia, Poland
  5. 1349 AD Breslau Jews massacred after fire · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  6. 1349–1360 AD Breslau fires blamed on the Jews · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  7. 1350 AD Cities given right to admit or refuse Jews · Silesia, Poland
  8. 1360 AD Breslau Jews slain and expelled after fire · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  9. 1360 AD Expulsion of Jews from Breslau · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  10. 1362 AD Persecution of Jews in Brieg, Guhrau, Laehn, Loewenberg and Neisse · Brzeg (Brieg), Poland
  11. c. 1400 AD Banishment of the Jews from Silesia · Silesia, Poland
  12. c. 1400 AD Burning of Jews at Breslau under Capistrano · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  13. c. 1400 AD Hussite-war slaughter of Jews in Austria, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia · Austria and elsewhere

15th century

  1. 1401 AD Host-desecration accusation and expulsions from Brieg, Glogau and Striegau · Brzeg (Brieg), Poland
  2. 1420 AD Jews robbed and murdered in Breslau during Sigismund's crusade · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  3. 1423 AD Residence rights granted on payment of annual tax · Brzeg (Brieg), Poland
  4. 1447 AD Duchess Elizabeth restricts Liegnitz Jews to money-lending · Legnica (Liegnitz), Poland
  5. 1450–1459 AD Capistrano persecutions and expulsion from Breslau · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  6. 1453 AD Expulsion of Jews from the duchies of Brieg and Liegnitz · Brzeg (Brieg), Poland
  7. 1453 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Breslau, Liegnitz and Schweidnitz · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  8. 1453 AD Martyrdom of Abraham of Oppeln at Breslau · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  9. 1453 AD Seventeen Jews burned at the stake in Schweidnitz · Świdnica (Schweidnitz), Poland
  10. 1453 AD Violence against Jews in Breslau · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  11. 1455 AD Second expulsion of Jews from Breslau · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland

16th century

  1. 1505 AD Oels granted right to exclude Jews · Oleśnica (Oels), Poland
  2. 1543 AD Ritual murder accusation and expulsion in Leobschütz · Głubczyce (Leobschütz), Poland
  3. 1557–1565 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Oppeln · Opole (Oppeln), Poland
  4. 1563 AD Banishment of Jews from Oppeln · Opole (Oppeln), Poland
  5. 1582 AD Rudolph II orders expulsion of Jews from Silesia · Silesia, Poland
  6. 1584 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Silesia · Silesia, Poland

17th century

  1. 1689 AD Imperial treasurer requests expulsion of Jews from Breslau · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland

18th century

  1. 1708 AD Expulsion of Jews without domicile rights from Bytom · Bytom, Poland
  2. 1713 AD Austrian tolerance tax imposed on Silesian Jews · Silesia, Poland
  3. 1738 AD Expulsion of Jews from Breslau · Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
  4. 1744 AD Jews readmitted under Frederick the Great · Silesia, Poland
  5. 1746 AD Frederick the Great banishes Jews from Silesia · Silesia, Poland

19th century

  1. 1812 AD Prussian edict grants Silesian Jews economic and personal freedom · Silesia, Poland
  2. 1862 AD Abolition of the Jewish quarter in Czestochowa · Częstochowa, Poland

20th century

  1. 1923 AD Attacks on Jews and Jewish shops in Bytom · Bytom, Poland
  2. 1939 AD "Bloody Monday" pogrom in Czestochowa · Częstochowa, Poland
  3. 1939 AD Burning of the Great Synagogue of Czestochowa · Częstochowa, Poland
  4. 1939 AD Będzin massacre · Będzin, Poland
  5. 1939 AD Częstochowa massacre · Częstochowa, Poland
  6. 1939 AD Second pogrom in Czestochowa on December 25 · Częstochowa, Poland
  7. 1940 AD Będzin Ghetto · Będzin, Poland
  8. 1940 AD Ghetto established in Bedzin, Poland · Będzin, Poland
  9. 1941 AD Ghetto established in Czestochowa, Poland · Częstochowa, Poland
  10. 1942 AD Czestochowa ghetto liquidated; 40,000 killed at Treblinka · Częstochowa, Poland
  11. 1942 AD Częstochowa Ghetto · Częstochowa, Poland
  12. 1942 AD Deportation of Czestochowa Jews to Treblinka · Częstochowa, Poland
  13. 1942 AD Deportation of Jews from Bytom · Bytom, Poland
  14. 1942 AD Deportations of Jews from Brieg · Brzeg (Brieg), Poland
  15. 1942 AD Germans attack Jewish hospitals in Sosnowiec · Sosnowiec, Poland
  16. 1942 AD Ghetto resistance forms in Czestochowa and Kielce · Częstochowa, Poland
  17. 1942 AD November 5 Between September 22 and November 5, 1942, German SS and police… · Częstochowa, Poland
  18. 1943 AD Czestochowa ghetto revolts and is destroyed · Częstochowa, Poland
  19. 1943 AD Execution of 127 Jewish intelligentsia in Czestochowa · Częstochowa, Poland
  20. 1943 AD Execution of 500 prisoners at the Jewish cemetery in Czestochowa · Częstochowa, Poland
  21. 1943 AD Sosnowiec Ghetto · Sosnowiec, Poland
  22. 1945 AD Deportation of HASAG camp prisoners to German concentration camps · Częstochowa, Poland

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