What happened to the Jews in 1940 AD?

All telephones are confiscated from Jews

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Unknown

Anti-Jewish measures in French North Africa

Vichy France issues the Statut des Juifs discriminating against Jews. The law leads to similar antisemitic actions in French North Africa.

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Vichy France

Where

French North Africa (several countries)

Anti-Jewish measures in Norway

On 16 May 1940 the Administrasjonsrådet asked Rikskommisariatet why radio receivers had been confiscated from Jews in Norway. That Administrasjonsrådet thereafter "quietly" accepted racial segregation between Norwegian citizens, has been claimed by Tor Bomann-Larsen.

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Tor Bomann-Larsen

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Norway

Anti-Jewish measures in Reichskommissariat of Belgium

General Alexander von Falkenhausen issues an order prohibiting Jews from working as civil servants, teachers, lawyers, broadcasters, or newspaper editors in the Reichskommissariat of Belgium and Northern France.

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General Alexander von Falkenhausen

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Belgium

Anti-Jewish measures in Vichy France

Non-French aliens are banned from taking public posts in Vichy France, a measure targeting Jews.

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Vichy France

Where

Vichy France, France

Cancellation of Romanian citizenship for Jews

The government, including Iron Guard members, revoked Romanian citizenship of Jews under German pressure.

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Romanian government

Where

Romania

Confiscation of Jewish shops in Kolín

Jewish-owned shops were confiscated in January 1940, earlier than elsewhere in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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German occupation authorities

Where

Kolín, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Economic restrictions and confiscations against Jews

From 1940 the Jews of Timisoara faced worsening conditions through economic restrictions and confiscation of property.

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Romanian authorities

Where

Timișoara, Banat, Romania

Expulsion of Jewish students and workers under Antonescu

At the start of Antonescu's pro-Nazi regime, Jewish students were officially expelled from schools and universities, and Jewish workers in the private sector suffered the same fate.

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Ion Antonescu regime

Where

Romania

Forced labor of Jewish women in Kolín soap factory

Jewish women were made to work in a local soap factory during the occupation.

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German occupation authorities

Where

Kolín, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Forced labor units for Jews established

Hungary set up special forced labor units for Jews, who were barred from regular army service.

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Hungarian government

Where

Hungary

German census of Jews and Jewish businesses in Paris

The German occupiers conducted a census registering Jewish persons and Jewish-owned businesses and companies in Paris.

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German occupation authorities

Where

Paris, Île-de-France, France

German ordinance ordering census of Jews in Occupied Zone

The Germans issued their first ordinance in the Occupied Zone, requiring a census of all Jews.

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German occupation authorities

Where

Occupied Zone, France

Hungarian restrictions on Jews in northern Transylvania

Upon occupying northern Transylvania, the Hungarian government dismissed Jews from law offices and public positions, capped Jewish pupils in secondary schools at 4 percent, banned Zionist activity, and forced a Jewish newspaper to close.

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Hungarian government

Where

Northern Transylvania, Romania

Internment of German-Jewish refugee men

At the time of the German invasion, adult male German-Jewish refugees were treated as suspect aliens, arrested by Belgian police and interned in the Gurs camp in France.

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Belgian police

Where

Belgium

Internment of foreign and some Italian Jews

After Italy entered the war, concentration camps were set up for enemy aliens, and several thousand foreign Jews plus about 200 Italian Jews were interned.

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Fascist government of Italy

Where

Italy

Jews forced to surrender their homes

In August 1940 Jews in Bratislava were forced to give up their homes.

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Slovak state

Where

Bratislava, Slovakia

Labor Exchange for Jew-Workers set up in Berlin

The authorities created a special labor office to channel Berlin's Jews into forced labor.

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Nazi authorities

Where

Berlin, Germany

Nazi racial laws extended to Luxembourg and Aryanization

After annexation, German racial laws were applied in Luxembourg and 355 Jewish businesses were transferred to non-Jews.

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Nazi German administration

Where

Luxembourg

Norwegian Jews barred from teaching and other professions

German authorities banned Jews in Norway from teaching and from working in other professions.

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Unknown

Nuremberg Laws imposed in Luxembourg

In Luxembourg the German occupiers introduced the Nuremberg Laws, confiscating every Jewish business and transferring it to "Aryans."

By

Unknown

Where

Luxembourg

Ordinance defining Jews, banning return, and requiring registration

An ordinance defined who was a Jew, barred further return of Jews to Belgium, and required Jews over 15 to register and have the letter J stamped on their identity cards.

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German occupation authorities

Where

Belgium

Persecution of Jews in southern Transylvania

The Romanian government confiscated communal land, deprived Jews of factories and shops, and forced many Jews of military age into labor battalions.

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Romanian government

Where

Transylvania, Romania

Polish Jews denied exit visas

A German order from Kraków, Poland, banned the granting of exit visas to Jews from Poland.

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Unknown

Where

Kraków, Lesser Poland, Poland

Soviet arrest of Gordonia leaders in Lutsk

Soviet authorities uncovered the Zionist Gordonia underground and imprisoned its leaders.

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Soviet authorities

Where

Lutsk, Volhynia, Ukraine

Soviet ban on Jewish communal life in Kremenets

Under Soviet rule all Jewish communal life was forbidden.

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Soviet authorities

Where

Kremenets, Volhynia, Ukraine

Soviet nationalization and exile of Jewish property owners in Liepaja

The Soviet authorities nationalized the economy and deported 50 families who owned property.

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Soviet authorities

Where

Liepāja, Courland, Latvia

Total prohibition of Jewish immigration to Chile

After the parliamentary inquiry and debates over the foreign minister's visa policy, Chile completely banned Jewish immigration.

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Chilean Parliament

Where

Chile

US Congress admits British children outside immigration quotas

The United States Congress enacted a law letting thousands of British children enter the country above the immigration quotas, a measure that enjoyed broad American public support.

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United States Congress

Where

United States

Vichy France enacts the first Statut des Juifs

Vichy (Occupied) France adopted antisemitic laws. Its first Statut des Juifs was patterned on Germany's Nuremberg Laws and, like those laws, met wide acceptance.

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Nazi Germany

Vichy anti-Jewish status introduced in French Morocco

A sultanic decree brought the Vichy anti-Jewish statute into the French zone of Morocco, applying to all Jews by'race' and religion.

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Vichy government / Sultanic decree

Where

Morocco

Vichy persecution of the Jews of Constantine

The Vichy government severely persecuted the Jewish community of Constantine.

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Vichy government

Where

Constantine, Algeria

Vichy police census of the Jews

In 1940 the Vichy police carried out a census of the Jews in France. A card file from it was later found by Serge Klarsfeld.

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Vichy police

Where

France

Vichy repeals the Marchandeau law

The Vichy government repealed the 1939 law that had banned antisemitic attacks in the press, removing that protection for Jews.

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Vichy government

Where

France

Warsaw Jews banned from public libraries

Jews in Warsaw, Poland, were forbidden to use public libraries in the city.

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German occupation authorities

Where

Warsaw, Masovia, Poland

Soviet suppression of Jewish communal life and employment limits

Under Soviet rule Jewish communal activities were ended and Jewish professionals other than physicians struggled to find work.

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Soviet authorities

Where

Przemyśl, Poland

Elimination of Jewish life and trade under Soviet rule

Under Soviet rule all Jewish communal life and trade in Bauska was eliminated.

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Soviet authorities

Where

Bauska, Courland, Latvia

German anti-Jewish decrees in occupied Netherlands

The German occupiers issued a series of decrees defining Jews, dismissing them from public posts, and registering Jews and Jewish businesses, which began legal segregation.

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German occupation authorities

Where

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Law for the Protection of the Nation

Bulgaria's cabinet approved an anti-Jewish law modeled on Nazi regulations in August 1940; Parliament passed it in December 1940 and it was promulgated in January 1941.

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Bulgarian government and Parliament

Where

Bulgaria

Soviet closure of Jewish institutions and ban on Zionism

Under Soviet rule, all Jewish institutions in Kishinev were shut down and the Zionist movement was outlawed.

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Soviet authorities

Where

Chișinău (Kishinev), Bessarabia, Moldova

Soviet closure of Jewish institutions and exile of Jewish activists

Soviet authorities closed all Jewish parties, organizations and institutions and exiled many activists and wealthy Jews to Siberia.

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Soviet authorities

Where

Daugavpils, Latgale, Latvia

Vichy Statut des juifs

Vichy enacted a statute defining Jews and excluding them from top government positions, then revised it in 1941. Its definition of Jews was stricter than the one used in Germany.

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Vichy government

Where

France

Soviet closure of Jewish institutions and expulsion of businessmen in Pinsk

Under Soviet rule, Jewish political parties and schools were shut down, some leaders were arrested, and many Jewish businessmen and professionals were expelled from the city.

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Soviet authorities

Where

Pinsk, Belarus

Soviet liquidation of Jewish community institutions in Dubno

Under Soviet occupation, Jewish communal institutions were dissolved, Jewish property and enterprises were nationalized, and Jewish leaders were arrested.

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Soviet authorities

Where

Dubno, Volhynia, Ukraine

Soviet repression of Jewish life in Lutsk

Under Soviet occupation Jewish organizations were disbanded, enterprises nationalized, and some businessmen ordered out of town.

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Soviet authorities

Where

Lutsk, Volhynia, Ukraine

Foreign Jewish refugees interned in Moroccan camps

Foreign Jews who sought refuge in Morocco were placed in labor or concentration camps alongside other'undesirables'.

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Vichy authorities

Where

Morocco

Preparatory anti-Jewish measures under German occupation

A Belgian administration, instructed by the Wehrmacht, carried out measures that isolated the Jewish population, fixed their residence and gradually paralyzed them economically and socially.

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German military occupation and Belgian administration

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Belgium

Vichy anti-Jewish policies in Casablanca

The Vichy government restricted Jewish rights and deprived them of their livelihood, especially in Casablanca where a Gestapo office operated, until the Allied landing in 1942.

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Vichy government

Where

Casablanca, Morocco

Vichy discriminatory laws and abrogation of Crémieux Decree in Algeria

The Vichy regime imposed racial laws, employment quotas and school expulsions on Algerian Jews including in Oran, and temporarily revoked their citizenship by abrogating the Crémieux Decree.

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Vichy regime

Where

Oran, Algeria

Forced labor at the "Jewish Retraining Center" in Paderborn

About 100 Jews were held at a so-called retraining center and forced to work for the Nazi authorities.

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Nazi authorities

Where

Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Anti-Jewish laws of the Fascist regime

Starting in 1938, Jews in Italy, including Alessandria, suffered under the regime's anti-Jewish laws.

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Fascist regime

Where

Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

Racial laws and exclusion of Venetian Jews

Following the racial laws issued in September 1938, the Jewish community of Venice suffered exclusion and racial discrimination until summer 1943.

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Fascist Italian government

Where

Venice, Veneto, Italy

Spanish occupiers strip Tangier Jews of rights and autonomy

During Spain's occupation of Tangier, refugees lost rights including work, small businessmen were heavily taxed, and the Jewish community council's legal status was abrogated and its subsidies ended.

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Spanish occupation authorities

Where

Tangier, Morocco

Anti-Jewish measures in Germany

Persecution of Jews in Germany rises until they are stripped of their rights not only as citizens, but also as human beings. During this time antisemitism reached its all-time high.

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S.A

Where

Germany

Latin American restrictions on Jewish immigration

Latin American governments imposed economic, political, racial and religious restrictions to limit Jewish immigration during the Nazi era, tightening sharply from 1940.

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Latin American governments

Where

Latin America (several countries)

Persecution of Kurdish Jews amid anti-Zionist propaganda in Iraq

Following the start of anti-Zionist propaganda in Iraq in 1925, persecution of Kurdish Jews intensified, peaking during the Rashid Ali revolt of 1941.

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Unknown

Where

Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Brazil restricts immigration of Jewish refugees from Europe

Brazilian officials, with Oswaldo Aranha instrumental as minister and wartime foreign minister, limited the entry of Jewish refugees fleeing Europe.

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Brazilian government (Oswaldo Aranha)

Where

Brazil