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Concentration and expulsion of Dutch Jews begins
The rounding up and removal of the Jews of the Netherlands got under way.
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- Unknown
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Exile of French and British national Jews from Libya
Jews holding French or British nationality were declared enemy nationals and exiled; the French to Tunisia and the British to Italy and then to camps in Austria, Germany and Poland.
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- Italian authorities
- Where
- Libya
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Expulsion of the Jews of Moinesti to Botosani
During World War II the Jewish community of Moinesti was expelled and sent to Botosani.
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- Romanian authorities
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20th century departures of foreign nationals from Egypt
20th century departures of foreign nationals from Egypt: exodus of Europeans from Egypt.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Egypt
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Deportation of 168 Jews to Curaçao
Deportation of 168 Jews to Curaçao: deportation of 168 Jews to Curaçao.
- By
- Unknown
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"The Night of Blood" in the Warsaw Ghetto
Fifty-two people on a wanted list were pulled from their beds in the Warsaw Ghetto and murdered, an event later called "The Night of Blood."
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- Unknown
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1,800 seized at Radziwillów; 80,000 Soviet Jews murdered this month
At Radziwillów, Ukraine, 1,800 Jews were seized and 600 got away. Over the month, some 80,000 Soviet Jews were murdered at killing pits across the occupied territories.
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- Soviet Union
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10,000 Jews murdered at Miedzyrzec
At Miedzyrzec, Poland, 10,000 Jews were murdered.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Międzyrzec Podlaski, Poland
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12,000 Jews murdered at Bar in Transnistria
At Bar, in Ukraine's Transnistria region, 12,000 Jews were murdered.
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- Unknown
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14,000 Jews killed at Sarny
At Sarny, Ukraine, 14,000 Jews were killed.
- By
- Unknown
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16,000 Jews murdered at Pinsk
In Pinsk, Poland, 16,000 Jews were murdered.
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- Unknown
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240,000 Jews already killed in Ukraine
In Ukraine alone, the Germans had by now murdered 240,000 Jews.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Ukraine
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25,000 Brest-Litovsk Jews murdered; Hana Ginsberg resists
All 25,000 Jews in Brest-Litovsk, Belorussia, were murdered, while Jewish resisters under Hana Ginsberg tried to fight back.
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- Hana Ginsberg
- Where
- Brest (Brest-Litovsk), Belarus
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42 Jewish men shot in Rakow Forest after resisting
After hostile Ukrainian troops had kept them trapped in a synagogue for three weeks, 42 Jewish men were taken to the Rakow Forest and told to dig ditches; they resisted and were shot.
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- Unknown
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87,000 Jews killed in Volhynia
In Poland's Volhynia region, 87,000 Jews were murdered.
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- Unknown
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About 1,000 Jews murdered at Dvinsk
Roughly 1,000 Jews were killed at Dvinsk, Latvia, leaving only some 450 of the 16,000 Jews who had lived there a year before.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Daugavpils (Dvinsk), Latgale, Latvia
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About 30,000 Jews killed in Minsk
In Minsk, roughly 30,000 Jews were murdered.
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- Unknown
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Aktion in Eastern Galicia: Jews forced to dig own graves
In Poland's Eastern Galicia region, Jews between 14 and 60 were taken to remote places, made to dig their own graves, and killed with grenades and machine guns. Orphans, old-age home residents and women on the streets were also murdered in this Aktion.
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- Unknown
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Armed Jewish resistance at Slonim; nearly 15,000 killed
Jews at Slonim, Belorussia, fought back with weapons. The Germans burned Jews alive, and close to 15,000 were murdered.
- By
- Unknown
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Bund urges Polish government-in-exile to warn Germany
The Bund (Jewish Labor Organization of Poland) asked Poland's government-in-exile in London to press the Allies to warn Germany of consequences for killing Poland's Jews. Its appeal gave detailed evidence of the systematic mass murder of Jews.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- London, England, United Kingdom
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Casablanca synagogue desecrated and pogroms after Allied landing
Right after the U.S. landings, the Rabbi Eliahu Synagogue in Casablanca was desecrated and pogroms broke out across the country.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Casablanca, Morocco
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Cemetery massacre of 1,000 Jews at Zdunska Wola
In Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1,100 Jews were driven into the Jewish cemetery; about 1,000 were shot or beaten to death, and the roughly 100 survivors had to bury them.
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- Unknown
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Chortkov Jews forced to watch the murder of their children
In Chortkov, Poland, several thousand Jews were gathered in the main square and made to watch as the community's children were murdered.
- By
- Unknown
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Daily Telegraph reports 700,000 Polish Jews slaughtered
The London Daily Telegraph reported that the Germans had killed over 700,000 Polish Jews, calling it the worst massacre in world history.
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- Germans
- Where
- London Daily Telegraph
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Daily Telegraph: over 1,000,000 Jews killed in Europe
The London Daily Telegraph ran a headline announcing that more than one million Jews had been killed in Europe.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- London Daily Telegraph
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Death threat for Poles and Ukrainians who help Jews
The German administration of the Occupied Eastern Territories announced that Poles or Ukrainians who sheltered or aided a Jew would be "shot dead."
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Occupied Eastern Territories (several countries)
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Eight hundred Jews murdered at Brzozów
At Brzozów, Poland, 800 Jews were killed.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Brzozów, Subcarpathia, Poland
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Execution of Jewish underground in Bratslav ghetto
Romanians discovered the 16-member Jewish underground in the ghetto and executed them.
- By
- Romanian authorities
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Four hundred Jewish intellectuals murdered in Kolomyia
In Kolomyia, Ukraine, 400 Jewish intellectuals were seized and later killed.
- By
- Unknown
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Germans attack Jewish hospitals in Sosnowiec
In Sosnowiec, Poland, Germans stormed Jewish hospitals, killing newborn babies and dragging patients off operating tables; patients able to walk were taken to Auschwitz and gassed.
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- Unknown
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Germans kill 500 Jews fleeing Serniki
Of almost 800 Jews who tried to flee Serniki, Poland, the Germans killed 500. Of the 279 who made it to the forests, 102 would die before the war ended.
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- Germans
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Germans murder 1,000 Jews at Kleck; 400 escape
At Kleck, Belorussia, the Germans killed 1,000 Jews while 400 escaped to the woods; among them, Moshe Fish and Leva Gilchik (of nearby Kopyl) would later create a partisan unit.
- By
- Unknown
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Jewish community of Ozorków murdered
The Jews of Ozorków, Poland, were murdered as a community.
- By
- Unknown
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Jews escaping Lutsk ghetto caught and murdered
In spring 1942 most young Jews who tried to flee the ghetto to the forests were caught and murdered by Ukrainians.
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- Ukrainians
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Jews killed across the occupied Soviet Union
Throughout the occupied USSR, large numbers of Jews were killed in streets, woods and stone quarries.
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- Soviet Union
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Jews locked in a church and killed at Lask
At Lask, Poland, Jews were shut inside a church and killed. The victims included a mother and the baby she gave birth to there.
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- Unknown
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Jews of Rabka murdered
In Rabka, Poland, members of the Jewish community were murdered.
- By
- Unknown
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Kraków ghetto liquidated; 6,000 murdered at Belzec
The Germans liquidated the Kraków ghetto in Poland and killed 6,000 of the city's Jews at Belzec.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Kraków, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Kremenets Jews kill six policemen at ghetto
Jews in the Kremenets, Ukraine, ghetto killed six German and Ukrainian policemen trying to enter it.
- By
- Unknown
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Kruszyna labor camp inmates attack guards
Jewish prisoners at the Kruszyna labor camp near Radom, Poland, fought guards with knives and bare hands; six were killed and four got away.
- By
- Unknown
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London press reports all Mariupol Jews killed
A short London newspaper report stated that every Jew in Mariupol, Ukraine, had been murdered.
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- Unknown
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Luboml Jews hunted down; some 10,000 killed
Hundreds of Jews fled Luboml, in Ukraine, but were soon tracked down. Altogether about 10,000 of its Jews were killed.
- By
- Unknown
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Lvov Jews killed at Janówska and Piaski
Thousands of Jews from Lvov were murdered at Janówska, Ukraine, and at Piaski, Poland.
- By
- Unknown
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Mass murder of 14,000 Jews in Kharkov
Charkow (Kharkov), Ukraine, was the site of the mass murder of 14,000 Jews.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Kharkiv (Charkow), Ukraine
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Massacre of Jews in Bácska
Gendarmes and soldiers killed about 1,000 Jews in Bácska, mainly in Novi Sad.
- By
- Gendarmes and soldiers
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Massacre of Jews near Kislowodsk
Jews were massacred near Kislowodsk in the Caucasus.
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- Unknown
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Massacres of Jews in Minsk, Lida and Slonim
Jews were massacred in the Belorussian towns of Minsk, Lida and Slonim.
- By
- Unknown
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Murder of Alliance Israélite Universelle headmaster in Damascus
The headmaster of the Alliance Israélite Universelle school in Damascus was murdered.
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- Unknown
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Murder of patients in the Jewish hospital in Pinsk
In July 1942 all the patients in the Jewish hospital were killed.
- By
- German occupation forces
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New York Times reports slaughter of 700,000 Jews
The New York Times reported that 700,000 Jews had been slaughtered in Poland under German rule.
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- Unknown
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Occupiers report Serbia's Jews "totally solved"; 14,500 murdered
Occupation authorities in the East told Berlin the "Jewish problem" in Serbia was "totally solved." Since the Germans arrived, 14,500 Serbian Jews out of 16,000 had been murdered.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- East
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Over 1,800 Pochep Jews executed
In Pochep, Russia, more than 1,800 Jews were put to death.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Pochep, Bryansk Oblast, Russia
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Over 400,000 Jews murdered across Europe
Across Europe, upwards of 400,000 Jews were killed.
- By
- Unknown
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Patients slaughtered in Lódz Ghetto hospital raids
Security forces stormed five Lódz Ghetto hospitals, removing and killing the patients. Babies were hurled from upper-floor windows, some stabbed with bayonets as they fell.
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- Security
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Reprisal shootings after Baum group attack
After the attack on the anti-Jewish exhibition, the Germans shot 250 Jews and sent another 250 to Sachsenhausen, where they died.
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- German authorities
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Rivka Yosselevska survives Zagrodski pit massacre
Rivka Yosselevska was one of only four Jews who lived through a massacre at burial pits near Zagrodski, Poland, close to Pinsk.
- By
- Unknown
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Seventeen thousand Lutsk Jews executed at Polanka Hill
From Lutsk, Ukraine, 17,000 Jews were led to Polanka Hill and shot.
- By
- Unknown
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Shooting of 45 Zasanie Jews
In June 1942 the Germans shot 45 Jews from Zasanie.
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- German authorities
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Songwriter Mordecai Gebirtig executed at Belzec
Mordecai Gebirtig, a carpenter from Kraków whose freedom songs were sung all over Poland, was put to death at Belzec.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Poland
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Struma disaster
Struma disaster: maritime disaster. Deaths: 791.
- By
- Unknown
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Violence against Jews in Croatia
"In a concentration camp in Croatia eight Jewish supervisors were executed on charges of aiding the guerillas (Yugoslav partisans), when 340 Jewish prisoners, including 42 young girls, escaped from the camp and succeeded in reaching the mountain stronghold of the Serbian force."
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Croatia
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Violence against Jews in Uzice
"In the concentration camp at Uzice, in Serbia, 280 Jewish internees and 100 Serbians were executed, the Yugoslav sources disclose. Among the Jews who were shot were many women and children and two aged men, Dr. Guttman and M. Levy.":
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Warsaw Ghetto leaders send plea through Jan Karski
Warsaw Ghetto Jewish leaders asked Jan Karski, a Polish Catholic underground courier, to inform the Allies and the Polish government that they were helpless, that the Germans sought not to enslave but to murder them systematically, and that their whole people would be destroyed.
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- Unknown
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Montenegrin tragedy
Montenegrin tragedy. Deaths: 700.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
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Allied food relief saves Greek civilians from famine
The American, British and German governments together saved two and a half million Greeks from starving; Britain and the US let food into Greece once Germany promised not to seize it.
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- Unknown
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Ban on Jews in public places and limits on shopping hours
Jews in the Occupied Zone were barred from public places, squares, gardens and sports grounds. They were also limited to one hour a day for shopping.
- By
- German occupation authorities
- Where
- Occupied Zone, France
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Belgian Jews forced to wear the Yellow Star
Jews in Belgium were required to display the Yellow Star.
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- Unknown
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Blank authorization for government powers over Jews
Parliament gave the government unlimited authority over all questions concerning Jews, at the request of Interior Minister Gabrovski.
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- Bulgarian Parliament and Minister of Interior Gabrovski
- Where
- Bulgaria
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Closure of all Jewish educational institutions
The Nazi authorities shut down all Jewish educational institutions in Germany.
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- Nazi German government
- Where
- Germany
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Confiscation of Jewish factories and groceries in Salonika
Toward the end of 1942 the occupiers seized Jewish-owned factories and grocery shops in Salonika.
- By
- German occupation forces
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Conscription of Jews into forced labor battalions in northern Transylvania
The Hungarian military command conscripted Jews of military age into forced labor battalions, many sent to the eastern front, where most perished.
- By
- Hungarian military command
- Where
- Northern Transylvania, Romania
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Forced labor for Organization Todt aimed at Jews
Forced labor for the Todt organization was imposed nominally on all unemployed people but was in practice directed at Jews, who had been driven out of economic life.
- By
- German occupation authorities
- Where
- Belgium
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Forced labor of Salonika Jewish men
Jewish men in Salonika were sent to forced labor, and the Germans later agreed to stop drafting them in exchange for a huge payment from the community.
- By
- German occupation forces
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German curfew and residence ban for Jews in Occupied Zone
German authorities imposed a nightly curfew on Jews, forbade them to change residence, and widened the legal definition of who counted as a Jew.
- By
- German occupation authorities
- Where
- Occupied Zone, France
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In occupied Belgium, German authorities issue a decree requiring all Jews to wear the yellow star.
- By
- Unknown
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In the Netherlands, the German Higher SS and Police Leader issues a decree requiring all Jews to wear the yellow Star of David on their outer clothing.
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- German Higher SS and Police Leader
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Internment of AJB leaders at Breendonck
AJB leaders were interned in Breendonck concentration camp and accused of not carrying out German orders diligently.
- By
- Nazi German authorities
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Jewish badge imposed in Bulgaria
The distinctive sign order was applied to Jews in Bulgaria from September 1942.
- By
- Bulgarian authorities under German pressure
- Where
- Bulgaria
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Jewish badge imposed in Holland
Jews in the Netherlands were compelled to wear the distinctive sign from May 1942.
- By
- German occupation authorities
- Where
- Netherlands
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Jewish emigration from Nazi-controlled territory is prohibited
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Jewish internees conscripted into labor legions
The government decreed that Jewish internees be mobilized into special work legions instead of military service, though this was only partly carried out.
- By
- Fascist government of Italy
- Where
- Italy
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Jewish medical personnel banned from treating gentiles
Jewish doctors, dentists and nurses were forbidden to treat non-Jewish patients.
- By
- German occupation authorities
- Where
- Belgium
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Jews banned from public transportation
Jews were forbidden to ride public transport, except forced laborers living more than seven kilometers from where they worked.
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- Unknown
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Jews denied rationed foods and goods
Jews were refused all seafood and ration cards for meat, clothes, milk and tobacco, and were forbidden white bread, any fruit whether fresh or canned, sweets, and soap for shaving.
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- Unknown
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Jews in Greater Germany banned from public transport
Across Greater Germany, Jews were forbidden to use public transportation.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Greater Germany (several countries)
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Macedonian Jews forced to wear the Yellow Star
The Jews of Macedonia were ordered to wear the Yellow Star.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- North Macedonia
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New restrictions and Commissariat for Jewish Affairs
At the end of August 1942 the government issued additional restrictive regulations and created a Commissariat for Jewish Affairs, headed from September by Alexander Belev.
- By
- Bulgarian government
- Where
- Bulgaria
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Norway confiscates all Jewish property
Norway seized all property owned by Jews.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Norway
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Property declaration and forced labor for Tripoli Jews
Tripoli Jews had to declare all their property, and men aged 18 to 45 were sent to forced labor at Homs and on the Libya-Egypt railway.
- By
- Italian authorities
- Where
- Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya
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SS orders plundered Jewish valuables sent to Reichsbank
SS Lt. Gen. August Frank told camp officials to send jewels and valuables taken from Jews to the Reichsbank, and to clean razors and other useful goods for sale to frontline soldiers, with the money going to the Reich.
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- Nazi Germany
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Slovak authorities require all Jews to wear the yellow Star of David on their outer clothing.
- By
- Unknown
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São Tomé and Guiné refugees refused landing and detained in Cuba
Refugees aboard two ships, the São Tomé and the Guiné, were denied permission to land in Cuba. The 450 refugees were held for eight months in the Tiscornia immigrant camp before release.
- By
- Cuban government under President Batista
- Where
- Cuba
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Vichy France bars Jews from public places
Vichy France excluded Jews from every restaurant and cafe, as well as libraries, sports fields, squares and other public spaces.
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- Vichy France
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Vichy fires Lyons governor for refusing to arrest Jews
The Times of London reported that Vichy had dismissed General Robert de Saint-Vincent, Lyons' military governor, for refusing to carry out mass arrests of Jews. It also reported a German order to arrest Catholic priests sheltering Jews in France's unoccupied zone.
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- Vichy France
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Wartime bans on Jews: telephones, parks, pets, newspapers
Further wartime rules barred Jews from public phones and ticket machines, gathering at train stations, eating in restaurants, entering forests or parks, walking on grass, owning any pet animal, ordering from skilled tradesmen, and getting newspapers or magazines.
- By
- Unknown
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Yellow Star decree in the Netherlands
Jews were required to wear a Yellow Star marked with the word Jood from the start of May 1942.
- By
- German occupation authorities
- Where
- Netherlands
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Yellow Star made compulsory in Occupied France
Wearing the Jewish Yellow Star became obligatory in Occupied France.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Occupied Zone, France
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Yellow badge ordered for Jews in Occupied Zone
An ordinance required all Jews in the Occupied Zone to wear a yellow badge.
- By
- German occupation authorities
- Where
- Occupied Zone, France
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Yellow badge ordered in Belgium
The Nazis ordered every Jew to wear the yellow badge; when Belgian administration refused, the Germans issued it themselves and then made the AJB enforce it.
- By
- Nazi German authorities
- Where
- Belgium
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Young Jews sent to forced labor in Bulgaria
In the summer of 1942 the Bulgarian authorities conscripted several hundred young Jews into forced labor.
- By
- Bulgarian government
- Where
- Bulgaria
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Forced labor of Dubno Jews
The Germans conscripted the Jewish population for forced labor, and many died from the harsh conditions.
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- German occupiers
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German fine, executions and deportation order against Jews of France
German military authorities proclaimed a collective fine on the Jewish population, the execution of 53 Jewish Resistance members, and the deportation of 1,000 Jews. Deportation of 1,100 Jews took place in March 1942.
- By
- German military authorities
- Where
- Occupied Zone, France
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Capital tax (varlik vergisi) discriminates against non-Muslims
Turkey approved a wartime capital tax whose assessments were set by religion and nationality. Jews and other non-Muslims were taxed far beyond their means, ruining many businessmen.
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- Turkish government
- Where
- Turkey
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Confiscation of property of deported Jews
The state seized the property of deported Jews, those who committed suicide, and those who left Germany, treating them as enemies of the people and the country.
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- Nazi German state
- Where
- Germany
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Foreign Jewish refugees interned in Moroccan camps
Foreign Jews who sought refuge in Morocco were placed in labor or concentration camps alongside other'undesirables'.
- By
- Vichy authorities
- Where
- Morocco
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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
- Where
- Belgium
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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.
- By
- Vichy government
- Where
- Casablanca, Morocco
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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
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Jewish labor camp at Leszno
A Jewish forced labor camp with about 250 inmates operated in or near Leszno.
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- Nazi German authorities
- Where
- Leszno, Greater Poland, Poland
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Jewish men from Györ sent to labor camps
Most male Jews of Györ were conscripted and sent to forced labor camps.
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- Hungarian authorities
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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
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Confiscation of Jewish property in Shanghai
During the Japanese occupation, most Jewish property in Shanghai was seized on various pretexts.
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- Japanese occupation forces
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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300 women and children lured back to Tuchin and shot
Of the 1,000 Jews still in hiding after the September 24 Tuchin Ghetto breakout, 300 cold, starving women and children came back on German promises of safe return. All 300 were shot.
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- German promises
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6,000 Jews hiding in forests surrender on false promise
Six thousand Polish Jews who had hidden in the woods since spring 1942 gave themselves up when the Germans pledged safe passage to a new ghetto.
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- Unknown
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Bluma Rozenfeld leaps to her death in Lódz Ghetto
In the Lódz Ghetto, 19-year-old Bluma Rozenfeld jumped from a window five stories up and died.
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- Unknown
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Borshchiv Ghetto
Borshchiv Ghetto (Ukrainian: Борщівське гето) was a Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the Ukrainian town of Borshchiv, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, between April 1942 and July 1943.
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- Nazi Germany in the Ukrainian town
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Confinement of Essen Jews in Holbeckshof camp
In 1942 the 527 Jews remaining in Essen were confined in the Holbeckshof camp in Essen-Steele and then deported to concentration camps.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Częstochowa Ghetto
The Częstochowa Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of local Jews in the city of Częstochowa during the German occupation of Poland. The approximate number of people confined to the ghetto was around 40,000 at the beginning and in late 1942 at its peak, immediately before mass deportations, 48,000.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Częstochowa, Silesia, Poland
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Dzyatlava Ghetto
The Dzyatlava Ghetto, Zdzięcioł Ghetto, or Zhetel Ghetto (in Yiddish) was a Nazi ghetto in the town of German-occupied Poland (Zdzięcioł) Dzyatlava, Western Belarus during World War II. After several months of Nazi ad-hoc persecution that began after the launch of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, the new German authorities officially created a ghetto for all local Jews on 22 February 1942.
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- Germans
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Escapees from Tuchin Ghetto hunted down and shot
On September 24, 2,000 Jews had broken out of the Tuchin Ghetto; German and Ukrainian police search parties now caught 1,000 of them. A number were shot in the town's Jewish cemetery; most were killed on the spot in the forest.
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Establishment of ghettos in Dubno
At the start of April 1942 the Germans set up two ghettos, one for workers and their families and one for the other Jews.
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- German occupiers
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Establishment of the Kovel ghetto
The Germans set up a ghetto in two sections, in the city and in the suburb of Piaski, and separated the able-bodied from those marked for immediate annihilation.
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- German authorities
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Frysztak Ghetto
Frysztak Ghetto was created in the Polish shtetl of Frysztak during World War II by Nazi Germany and existed until 18 August 1942, when it was liquidated.
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- Nazi Germany and existed
- Where
- Poland
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Germans demand 400 of Oszmiana's 1,000 Jews
The Germans required Oszmiana, Lithuania, to surrender 400 of its 1,000 Jews, and assigned the Jewish police of nearby Vilna to choose the victims.
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- Unknown
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Germans raid Minsk Ghetto for resistance leaders
German soldiers stormed the Minsk Ghetto, hunting down and seizing leaders of the Jewish Resistance.
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- Unknown
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Ghetto imposed in Kremenets
A ghetto was established on March 1, 1942, in which 9,340 Jews were crowded under terrible conditions.
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- Germans
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Ghetto resistance forms in Czestochowa and Kielce
Jews in Czestochowa and Kielce, Poland, organized resistance groups inside their ghettos.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Częstochowa, Silesia, Poland
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Jewish Combat Organization
The Jewish Combat Organization (Polish: Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB; Yiddish: ייִדישע קאַמף אָרגאַניזאַציע Yidishe Kamf Organizatsie; often translated to English as the Jewish Fighting Organization) was a World War II resistance movement in occupied Poland, which emerged from the merger of five Jewish political and youth organizations: Hashomer Hatzair, Habonim Dror, Poale Zion, and the Bund, and was central in organizing and launching the…
- By
- Unknown
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Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) founded in Warsaw Ghetto
Young people in the Warsaw Ghetto created the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB; Jewish Fighting Organization), though the ghetto then held just one pistol.
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- Unknown
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Jews from surrounding places concentrated in Tarnow ghetto
Jews from all the smaller nearby towns were forced into the Tarnow ghetto.
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- German occupation authorities
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Kharkov ghetto liquidated
The Germans liquidated the Kharkov ghetto in Ukraine.
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- Unknown
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Lvov ghetto liquidated
The Germans liquidated the Jewish ghetto of Lvov, Ukraine.
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- Unknown
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Lódz Ghetto Jews report for forced labor
The Lódz Ghetto's Jewish Council chose 10,000 Jews for labor, and the first of them presented themselves.
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- Unknown
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Minsk Ghetto children smothered in sandpit
Little ones from a Jewish nursery in Minsk's ghetto were thrown into a sandpit, thrown candy, and then suffocated. Over 5,000 Jewish adults from Minsk were murdered as well.
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- Unknown
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Mizoch Ghetto
The Mizoch (Mizocz) Ghetto (German: Misotsch; Cyrillic: Мизоч; Yiddish: מיזאָטש) was a World War II ghetto set up in the town of Mizoch, then Eastern Poland, today Western Ukraine, by Nazi Germany for the forcible segregation and mistreatment of Jews. In October 1942, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police and German policemen enclosed the ghetto; an uprising erupted, and the remaining inhabitants were mass murdered.
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- Einsatzgruppen, Order Police battalions, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
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Międzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto
The Międzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto was one of the Nazi ghettos established for the confinement and persecution of the Jewish population of Międzyrzec Podlaski in the General Government territory of occupied Poland. The ghetto was liquidated in stages between 1942 and 1943 as part of the "Final Solution", with all Jews either killed on the spot in mass shooting actions or deported to Treblinka and Majdanek death camps.
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- Nazi SS, Order Police battalions
- Where
- Międzyrzec Podlaski, Poland
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Nazis seal the Przemysl ghetto
The Nazis closed off the ghetto in Przemysl, Poland.
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- Nazis
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Opatów Ghetto
The Opatów Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of local Jews in the town of Opatów during the German occupation of Poland. The approximate number of Jews confined to the ghetto was about ten thousand, including a group of expelees from the Czech Republic and Austria.
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- Nazi Germany
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Pinsk Jews ordered into a ghetto within one day
German occupation authorities gave the Jews of Pinsk, Poland, a single day to set up a ghetto, into which 20,000 Jews would be moved.
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- German occupation authorities
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Sambor Ghetto
Sambor Ghetto (Polish: getto w Samborze, Ukrainian: Самбірське гето, Hebrew: גטו סמבור) was a Nazi ghetto established in March 1942 by the SS in Sambir, Western Ukraine. In the interwar period, the town (Sambor) had been part of the Second Polish Republic.
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- SS in Sambir
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Sick Jewish man thrown from window and shot in Warsaw Ghetto
In the Warsaw Ghetto, a sick Jewish man was hurled out of a window and then shot where he fell.
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- Unknown
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Three escaped women taken to Lódz Ghetto and shot
Three Jewish young women who had fled a Poznan, Poland, labor camp were forced into the Lódz Ghetto and shot.
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- Unknown
- Where
- Poznań, Greater Poland, Poland
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Two Lódz Ghetto Jews hanged for fleeing work gang
Two Jewish men, one aged only 16, were hanged in the Lódz Ghetto for escaping from a labor detail.
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- Unknown
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Vichy laws to force Jews back into the Fez mellah
Vichy laws sought to make Jews who had left the mellah return to it.
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- Vichy authorities
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Vitka Kempner blows up German military train
Jewish partisan Vitka Kempner came back to the Vilna Ghetto after her land mine destroyed the locomotive and munitions wagons of a German troop train.
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- Unknown
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Vitka Kempner sets out to mine a German train
Vitka Kempner, a Jewish partisan, slipped out of the Vilna ghetto with two companions and a land mine, aiming to wreck a German military train five miles to the southeast.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania
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Warsaw Ghetto deportations to Belzec and Treblinka begin
German officials, with Latvian and Ukrainian guards in SS uniform, encircled the Warsaw Ghetto walls as the so-called "resettlement" of its residents to the Belzec and Treblinka death camps got under way.
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- Nazi Germany
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Łachwa Ghetto
Łachwa (or Lakhva) Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto in Łachwa, Nazi German-occupied Poland (now Lakhva in Belarus) during World War II. The ghetto was created with the aim of persecution and exploitation of the local Jews.
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- Nazi Germany
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Augsburg's last Jews ghettoized and deported
The remaining Jews of Augsburg were forced into a ghetto and then deported to Piaski, Riga and Theresienstadt.
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- Nazis
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Bershad ghetto under German and Romanian occupation
After occupying Bershad and including it in Transnistria, the occupiers set up a ghetto and sent in 25,000 Jews deported from Bessarabia and Bukovina, many of whom died of hunger and disease in overcrowded conditions.
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- Germans and Romanians
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Brzesko Ghetto
Brzesko Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto during World War II in occupied Poland. The ghetto was created by the Third Reich in 1941 in the Polish town of Brzesko located in the Kraków District about 40 miles from Kraków.
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- Third Reich
- Where
- Poland
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Ghettoization of the Jews of Bielsk
An open ghetto was established in August 1941 and then sealed with barbed wire in February 1942, cutting off the Jews from outside contact.
- By
- Germans
- Where
- Bielsk Podlaski, Podlaskie, Poland
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Marcinkonys Ghetto
Marcinkonys or Marcinkańce Ghetto was a small Jewish ghetto established during the Holocaust in Marcinkonys (pre-war Second Polish Republic, war-time Bezirk Bialystok, post-war Lithuanian SSR). It existed from around November 1941 to November 1942 and housed 300 to 400 Jews.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Marcinkonys, Lithuania
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Mir Ghetto
The Mir Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto in Mir, Belarus during World War II. It housed at least 3,000 Jews, of whom about 2,900 were exterminated as part of the Holocaust.
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- German forces and collaborators
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Mogilev Ghetto
The Mogilev Ghetto (Belarusian: Магілёўская гета, romanized: Mahilioŭskaja hieta; Russian: Могилёвское гетто, romanized: Mogilyovskoye getto) was a Nazi ghetto in the city of Mogilev, in eastern Belarus, during World War II.
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- Einsatzgruppen, Einsatzkommando, Belarusian Auxiliary Police, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
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Rakaw Ghetto
The Rakaw Ghetto was established on 21 August 1941 in Rakaw, in the Byelorussian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Belarus), soon after the city's capture by Nazi Germany during Operation Barbarossa. An estimated 1,050 Jews were killed in the ghetto between its creation on 21 August 1941 and its liquidation on 4 February 1942.
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- Nazi Germany
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Svislach Ghetto (Mogilev region)
The Ghetto in Svisloch was a ghetto for the forcefully relocated Jews of Svisloch in the Osipovichi district (Belarus), and nearby settlements.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Svislach, Mogilev Region, Belarus
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Zhabinka Ghetto
Zhabinka Ghetto (1941 — October 21, 1942) was a Nazi Jewish ghetto and a place of forced relocation for the Jews of the town of Zhabinka in the Zhabinka district of the Brest region during the persecution and extermination of Jews under the Nazi occupation of Belarus during World War II.
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- Nazi occupation
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Jews barred from most of the Netherlands and concentrated in Amsterdam
Most of the country was declared off-limits to Jewish residents, and the Jews living there were mostly evacuated to Amsterdam.
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- German occupation authorities
- Where
- Netherlands
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Liepaja ghetto established and liquidated
A ghetto confining 816 Jews was created in June 1942; it was liquidated in October 1943 and the remaining Jews were deported to concentration camps.
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- German occupiers
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Daugavpils Ghetto
Following the occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941, the Daugavpils Ghetto (German: Ghetto Dünaburg) was established in an old fortress near Daugavpils. Daugavpils is the second largest city in Latvia, located on the Daugava River in the southeastern, Latgale, region of Latvia.
- By
- Erich Ehrlinger, Joachim Hamann, Günter Tabbert, Roberts Blūzmanis
- Where
- Daugavpils, Latgale, Latvia
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Lwów Ghetto
The Lwów Ghetto (German: Ghetto Lemberg; Polish: getto we Lwowie) was a Nazi ghetto in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) in the territory of Nazi-administered General Government in German-occupied Poland. The ghetto, set up in the second half of 1941, was liquidated in June 1943; all its inhabitants who survived prior killings were deported to the Bełżec extermination camp and the Janowska concentration camp.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Lviv (Lwów), Galicia, Ukraine
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Riga Ghetto
Riga Ghetto was a small area in Maskavas Forštate, a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia, where Nazis forced Jews from Latvia, and later from the German "Reich" (Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Moravia), to live during World War II. On October 25, 1941, the Nazis evicted the ghetto's non-Jewish inhabitants and relocated all Jews from Riga and its vicinity there.
- By
- Hans-Adolf Prützmann, Franz Walter Stahlecker, Hinrich Lohse, Friedrich Jeckeln, Kurt Krause, Eduard Roschmann
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Vilna Ghetto
The Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania, at the time part of the Nazi-administered Reichskommissariat Ostland. During the approximately two years of its existence, starvation, disease, street executions, maltreatment, and deportations to concentration and extermination camps reduced the ghetto's population from an estimated 40,000.
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- Nazi Germany
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Nowy Sącz Ghetto
The Nowy Sącz Ghetto – known in German as Ghetto von Neu-Sandez and in Yiddish as צאנז (Tsanz; Zanc) or נײ-סאנץ (Nay-Sants; Nojzanc) – was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of Polish Jews in the city of Nowy Sącz pronounced [ˈnɔvɨ ˈsɔnt͡ʂ] during the occupation of Poland (1939–45).
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- Nazi SS, Orpo police battalions
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Warsaw Ghetto
German authorities sealed over 400,000 Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto. Most were deported to Treblinka in 1942, and the ghetto was destroyed after the uprising of April–May 1943.
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- Nazi Germany
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Semi-internment of Jews in Shanghai's Hongkew district
After the Pacific war began, the Japanese occupation authorities confined most Jews in Shanghai to a semi-internment regime in the Hongkew district under miserable conditions. They were subject to arbitrary treatment, had trouble finding work, and had most of their property confiscated.
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- Japanese occupation forces
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Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commander
Mordechai Anielewicz led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
- By
- Unknown
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Bomb destroys interior of Turin synagogue
A bomb destroyed the interior of the synagogue in Turin.
- By
- Unknown
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Confiscation of Jewish goods in the Warsaw ghetto
The Transferstelle plundered Jewish property, confiscating goods worth millions of zlotys each month in early 1942.
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- Transferstelle (German authorities)
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Destruction of Pezinok Jewish cemetery
German troops blew up the old cemetery and used the crushed tombstones as road gravel, leaving only a lapidarium.
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- German troops
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Destruction of the Jewish cemetery of Salonika
The well-known Jewish cemetery of Salonika was destroyed at the end of 1942.
- By
- German occupation forces
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Fascist squads devastate Trieste temple and assault Jews
Fascist squads wrecked the temple and attacked defenseless passers-by.
- By
- Fascist squads
- Where
- Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
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Germans burn over 900 Jews at Ilja in reprisal
At Ilja, Poland, Jews assigned to farm labor fled to Soviet partisans in a forest nearby. In retaliation the Germans shot elderly and ill Jews in the streets and drove over 900 Jews into a building they then set on fire.
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- Soviet Union
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Mob devastates synagogue and Jewish property in Split
A mob wrecked the synagogue, community offices, shops and private homes of Jews in Split.
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- Mob
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Official dissolution of the Vienna Jewish community
The Nazi authorities formally dissolved the Jewish community of Vienna, leaving only a Council of Elders.
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- Nazi regime
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Plunder of Jewish shops in Benghazi
When Axis forces reoccupied Benghazi, all Jewish shops were systematically looted.
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- Axis forces
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Synagogue of Budweis blown up
The Germans destroyed the synagogue by blowing it up on June 5.
- By
- Germans
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Looting and destruction of Fontainebleau synagogue
During the German occupation in World War II, the town's 1857 synagogue was looted and destroyed, and its porcelain candelabrum donated by Napoleon III was smashed.
- By
- German occupation forces
- Where
- Fontainebleau, Île-de-France, France
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Nazi destruction of the Quai Kléber synagogue
The Nazis burned the synagogue built in 1898 and systematically erased all traces of it.
- By
- Nazis
- Where
- Strasbourg, Alsace, France
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Nazi looting of Dijon synagogue
During the German occupation the synagogue was stripped of its interior and used as a Nazi warehouse.
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- Nazi Germany
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Destruction of the old Jewish cemetery
The old cemetery was destroyed during the war for a town planning project, though a small plot with Moses Sofer's tomb was spared.
- By
- Municipal authorities
- Where
- Bratislava, Slovakia
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Plunder of Metz synagogues by German soldiers
German soldiers plundered and defiled the two synagogues and destroyed the workhouse, and the great synagogue became a military warehouse.
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- German soldiers
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Nazi plunder
Nazi plunder: Nazi looting in WWII.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Nazi-occupied Europe (several countries)Germany
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1,000 Plonsk Jews killed at Auschwitz
At Auschwitz, 1,000 Jews deported from Plonsk, Poland, were killed.
- By
- Unknown
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1,060 Greek-born Jews in Paris deported
Some 1,060 Jews born in Greece and living in or near Paris were arrested and sent to Auschwitz.
- By
- Unknown
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1,600 Buczacz Jews murdered at Belzec
Some 1,600 Jews deported from Buczacz, Ukraine, were murdered at Belzec.
- By
- Unknown
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10,000 Nowy Sacz Jews deported to Belzec
Some 10,000 Jews of Nowy Sacz, Poland, were sent to the extermination camp at Belzec.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Nowy Sącz, Lesser Poland, Poland
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10,000 Siedlce Jews murdered at Treblinka
Ten thousand Jews deported from Siedlce, Poland, were killed at the Treblinka death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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10,000 Szydlowiec Jews killed at Treblinka
Ten thousand Jews deported from Szydlowiec, Poland, were killed at Treblinka.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Szydłowiec, Poland
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10,000 Wielun Jews sent to Chelmno
Some 10,000 Jews of Wielun, Poland, were deported to the death camp at Chelmno.
- By
- Unknown
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100,000 Bialystok-region Jews sent via holding camps to death
Over 100,000 Jews still living in towns and villages of Poland's Bialystok region were arrested and held in camps at Bogusze, Kelbasin, Volkovysk and Zambrów, then sent on to Auschwitz and Treblinka.
- By
- Unknown
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11,000 Ostrowiec Jews killed at Treblinka
At Treblinka, 11,000 Jews deported from Ostrowiec-Swietokrzyski, Poland, were killed.
- By
- Unknown
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128 Tunis Jews marched to labor camp; one shot
In Tunis, Tunisia, German soldiers seized 128 Jews and marched them to a labor camp, shooting dead a young man who collapsed from exhaustion.
- By
- Unknown
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13,776 Vienna Jews deported to Theresienstadt
Vienna deported 13,776 of its Jews to Theresienstadt.
- By
- Unknown
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1942 Eleftherias Square roundup
1942 Eleftherias Square roundup: antisemitic measure taken in Salonica.
- By
- Unknown
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1942 Nazi roundup
1942 Nazi roundup: 1942 Nazi roundup.
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- Unknown
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1942 Nazi roundup
1942 Nazi roundup: 1942 Nazi roundup.
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- Unknown
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2,000 Jews moved from Lublin camp to Majdanek
Some 2,000 Jews held in the Lublin camp were deported to Majdanek.
- By
- Unknown
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2,500 Drogobych Jews murdered at Belzec
At the Belzec death camp, 2,500 Jews from Drogobych, Ukraine, were killed.
- By
- Unknown
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265,000 Warsaw Jews deported to Treblinka
From Warsaw, 265,000 Jews were sent to the Treblinka death camp and exterminated there.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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3,000 Opoczno Jews deported; escapees form the Lions
Some 3,000 Jews were sent from Opoczno, Poland, to Treblinka. A handful fled to nearby woods and formed a partisan band called the Lions.
- By
- Unknown
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3,000 deportees stripped naked before Belzec transport
To stop resistance, 3,000 Jews in eastern Poland awaiting transport to Belzec were forced to strip naked.
- By
- Unknown
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4,800 Warsaw Jews deported; Krzepicki escapes Treblinka
Over 4,800 Polish Jews were sent from Warsaw to Treblinka. Abraham Jakób Krzepicki, a young Jew, escaped the camp and got back to Warsaw, where historian Emanuel Ringelblum had his eyewitness account recorded.
- By
- Unknown
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405 Jews from Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen sent to Auschwitz
From Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, 405 Jewish prisoners were deported to Auschwitz; among those from Buchenwald was Fritz Beda, the Austrian-Jewish opera librettist.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Buchenwald, Thuringia, Germany
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5,000 Zawichost Jews deported to Belzec
Some 5,000 Jews were sent from Zawichost, Poland, to Belzec.
- By
- Unknown
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518 Jewish children from Paris gassed at Auschwitz
At Auschwitz, 518 Jewish children who had been deported from Paris were killed in the gas chambers.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
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532 Norwegian Jewish women and children sent to Auschwitz
In Norway 532 Jewish women and children were arrested and sent to Auschwitz. In all over 700 Norwegian Jews ended up there, while some 930 escaped to safety in Sweden.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Norway
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6,000 Jedrzejów Jews murdered at Treblinka
At Treblinka, 6,000 Jews from Jedrzejów, Poland, were murdered.
- By
- Unknown
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6,000 Miedzyrzec Jews suffocate on train to Treblinka
A train from Miedzyrzec, Poland, reached Treblinka with 6,000 Jews aboard, and guards found every one of them dead of suffocation after the 75-mile trip.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Międzyrzec Podlaski, Poland
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6,000 Siemiatycze Jews deported; Shabbes leads resistance
Six thousand Jews were deported from Siemiatycze, Poland, with Herschl Shabbes leading the resistance.
- By
- Herschl Shabbes
- Where
- Siemiatycze, Poland
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60,000 Slovak Jews deported to Auschwitz and Majdanek
From March through October 1942, 60,000 Jews from Slovakia were deported, some to Auschwitz and others to the Majdanek extermination camp.
- By
- Unknown
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600 Borislav Jews deported naked
Six hundred Jews of Borislav, Poland, were made to travel naked to keep them from resisting.
- By
- Unknown
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600 Jewish women moved from Ravensbrück to Birkenau
The SS moved over 600 Jewish women out of Ravensbrück and into Auschwitz-Birkenau, carrying out a Reich Security Main Office order that all Jewish prisoners in camps inside Germany be sent to Auschwitz.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Ravensbrück, Brandenburg, Germany
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7,000 Kraków Jews sent to Belzec; 600 killed in city
Seven thousand Jews of Kraków, Poland, were deported to Belzec, and 600 were killed in the city itself.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Kraków, Lesser Poland, Poland
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700 Romanian Jews sent from Drancy to Auschwitz
Seven hundred Jews of Romanian origin held at Drancy were deported to Auschwitz.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Drancy, Île-de-France, France
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745 Paris Jews, including old-age home residents, sent to Auschwitz
From Paris, 745 Jews, 35 of them from the Rothschild Old Age Home, were deported to Auschwitz. There, those waiting for the gas chamber saw a truck full of corpses yet went on to their deaths.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
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8,000 Wieliczka Jews killed at Belzec
Some 8,000 Jews deported from Wieliczka, Poland, died at Belzec, the death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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81,000 Warsaw Jews deported to Treblinka
From Warsaw, 81,000 Polish Jews were sent to the Treblinka death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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965 Slovak Jews deported to Auschwitz
Auschwitz received 965 Jews deported from Slovakia.
- By
- Unknown
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999 Belgian Jews deported east to their deaths
From Belgium, 999 Jews, 172 of them children, were sent east and killed.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- East
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Adam Czerniaków takes his own life
Adam Czerniaków, head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council, killed himself instead of complying with German orders to ready 6,000 Jews a day for deportation.
- By
- Unknown
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Aktion Reinhard begins
"Aktion Reinhard" started: the code name for the effort to physically annihilate the Jews of interior occupied Poland as part of the "Final Solution."
- By
- Unknown
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Aktion liquidating the Lutsk ghetto at Polanka hill
On August 20–23, 1942, the Germans massacred about 17,500 Jews of the ghetto on Polanka hill.
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- German occupation forces
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Amsterdam Jews arrested and deported to Auschwitz
In Amsterdam thousands of Dutch Jews were arrested and sent to Auschwitz, where many died in the gas chambers.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Armed resistance as Nieswiez ghetto is liquidated
Jews in western Belorussia's Nieswiez ghetto took up arms as it was being liquidated.
- By
- Unknown
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Armed resistance at Mir ghetto; 180 escape
Jews resisted with weapons as the Mir ghetto in western Belorussia was liquidated, and 180 fled into the surrounding forests.
- By
- Unknown
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Artemivsk massacre
The Artemivsk massacre, also referred to as "Bakhmut's Babi Yar", was a 1942 massacre of the Jewish inhabitants of the city of Artemivsk, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (now Bakhmut, Ukraine). Somewhere between 1,200 (according to German reports) and 3,000 (according to Soviet numbers) Jews were killed or left to die within the city's alabaster mines.
- By
- Einsatzgruppe C, Sonderkommando 4b
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Augsburg deportations end Jewish presence dating to 1212
With this day's transports to the Belzec death camp, Augsburg, Germany, was emptied of Jews, ending a community that had existed there since 1212.
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- Unknown
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August Frank memorandum
The August Frank memorandum of 26 September 1942 was a directive from SS Lieutenant General (Obergruppenführer) August Frank of the SS concentration camp administration department (SS-WVHA). The memorandum provides a measure of the detailed planning that Frank and other Nazis put into the carrying out of the Holocaust.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- SS Lieutenant General
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Auschwitz III (Monowitz) opens
Auschwitz III, also called Monowitz or Buna, began operating as an I.G. labor camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Auschwitz concentration camp authorities establish a camp at the site of the I.G
Auschwitz concentration camp authorities establish a camp at the site of the I.G. Farben plant near Monowitz and redesignate the Buna Labor Detachment as the Buna (or Monowitz) subcamp of Auschwitz.
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- Unknown
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Auschwitz women chosen for sterilization experiments
At Auschwitz, 100 Jewish women were picked for sterilization experiments.
- By
- Unknown
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Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners used as slave labor at Monowitz
Prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau were forced into slave labor in the camp and at a factory producing synthetic oil and rubber in nearby Monowitz.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
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BBC reports 700,000 Jews exterminated
Citing a report the Jewish Bund in Warsaw had smuggled out of Poland, the BBC announced that 700,000 Jews had been exterminated.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Baby thrown from window during Pabianice deportation
During a deportation at Pabianice, Poland, a Jewish mother struggled hard to keep her baby; it was seized from her and hurled from a window.
- By
- Unknown
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Beginning of mass deportations of Jews from France
Mass deportations of Jews from France began in 1942, as implied by the 50th anniversary being marked in 1992. Vichy was involved in the persecution of the Jews.
- By
- Vichy government and Nazi Germany
- Where
- France
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Belzec extermination camp begins full-scale killing
The Belzec extermination camp was set up and mass killing began in earnest, with deportees taken in from Poland and even from Germany's western provinces.
- By
- Unknown
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Bilgoraj Jewish Council executed for refusing deportation list
At Bilgoraj, Poland, members of the Jewish Council were put to death when they would not draw up a list of people to be deported.
- By
- Unknown
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Bilgoraj and Ostryna Jews destroyed at Belzec and Auschwitz
The Jewish community of Bilgoraj, Poland, was wiped out at Belzec, and that of Ostryna, Belorussia, at Auschwitz.
- By
- Unknown
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Birkenau Sonderkommando nearly done burning exhumed bodies
At Auschwitz-Birkenau the Jewish Sonderkommando was close to finishing the exhumation and cremation of Jewish bodies buried in the camp.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Camps in Germany to be "free of Jews"
German concentration camps were to be made "free of Jews," with every Jewish prisoner sent to Auschwitz.
- By
- Unknown
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Celler bill to admit French Jews killed in committee
Emanuel Celler, a Jewish congressman from New York, introduced a bill letting French Jews facing deportation and death in Eastern Europe immigrate to the U.S. The House Committee on Immigration killed it.
- By
- House Committee
- Where
- Eastern Europe (several countries)
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Checiny Jews deported
The Jews of Checiny, Poland, were deported.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Chęciny, Świętokrzyskie, Poland
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Chortkov Jews sent in freight cars to Belzec
The Jews of Chortkov, Ukraine, were loaded onto freight cars and taken to the Belzec death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Christian Century accuses Stephen Wise of lying
The American Protestant journal Christian Century assailed Rabbi Stephen Wise, alleging his recent press conference had lied about the Holocaust, and argued that even if he was right, publicizing it was pointless.
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- Unknown
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Christian Wirth connects diesel engine to Belzec gas chambers
Christian Wirth, a Nazi specialist in executions, attached a diesel engine taken from an armored car to the Belzec gas chambers.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Collaboration of the Vichy regime with the Holocaust: 27 March 1942 – The first convoy of Jewish deportees leaves Compiègne (Frontstalag 122) towards an extermination camp. 20 May 1942 – Occupied zone: Compulsory wearing of yellow Jewish star badge.
- By
- Nancy Police Commissioner
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Confinement and deportation of Osijek Jews from Tenje settlement
Osijek's Jewish community was tricked into building a settlement on the road to Tenje, where about three thousand Jews were confined and then by August 1942 all sent to Jasenovac or Auschwitz.
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- Ustaše authorities of the Independent Croatian State
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Construction of Sobibór death camp begins
The Nazis started building a further death camp, at Sobibór, where 250,000 Jews had been killed by October 1943.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Croat authorities begin deporting Jews in Croatia into German custody
Croat authorities begin deporting Jews in Croatia into German custody. The German authorities send the Croat Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Croatia
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Czestochowa ghetto liquidated; 40,000 killed at Treblinka
Germans liquidated the Czestochowa ghetto in Poland, sending its 40,000 inhabitants to Treblinka, where they were killed.
- By
- Nazis
- Where
- Częstochowa, Silesia, Poland
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David Lieberman defies Germans at Luków; 4,000 gassed
In Luków, Poland, German officials told Jewish Council member David Lieberman that the ransom he had raised for Lublin's Jews was worthless and deportations would go on. He tore up the money and slapped the official; Ukrainian guards killed him at once, and 4,000 of the Jews he sought to save were sent to Treblinka and gassed.
- By
- German authorities
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Deportation of 7,000 Jews to Transnistria in 1942
Through local authorities, Eichmann's Bucharest office arranged the deportation of about 7,000 Jews from Chernovtsy, Dorohoi and elsewhere to Transnistria on pretexts such as suspected communism.
- By
- Eichmann's Bucharest office and Romanian authorities
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Deportation of Amberg Jews to Piaski and Theresienstadt
Of the twelve Jews remaining in Amberg in 1942, ten were deported to Piaski and Theresienstadt.
- By
- Nazis
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Deportation of Arnstadt Jews to death camps
The Jews still remaining in Arnstadt in 1942 were deported to the death camps in the east.
- By
- Nazis
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Deportation of Aschaffenburg Jews to Izbica and Theresienstadt
The remaining 170 Jews of Aschaffenburg were deported to Izbica and Theresienstadt.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Deportation of Augustow Jews to Bogusze camp
In June 1942 the remaining Jews, mostly women and children, were deported to the Bogusze camp near Grajewo. Around 1,700 died there of hunger and disease within weeks.
- By
- German occupation authorities
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Deportation of Bohemian Jewish communities
Bohemian Jewish communities were deported under Nazi orders, and their synagogue equipment and archives were taken to the Jewish State Museum in Prague.
- By
- Nazi authorities
- Where
- Bohemia, Czech Republic
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Deportation of Bonn Jews to Theresienstadt and Lodz
About 400 Jews from the Endenich monastery, around 200 from Bonn, were deported in four transports; only seven survived.
- By
- Nazi authorities
- Where
- Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Deportation of Bratslav ghetto inmates to Pechora
Most ghetto inmates were deported to the Pechora concentration camp and 50 were drowned in the South Bug River.
- By
- Romanian authorities
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Deportation of Cottbus Jews
Most of the remaining Jews of Cottbus were deported in 1942.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany
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Deportation of Czestochowa Jews to Treblinka
Beginning in September 1942, a series of Aktionen deported about 39,000 Jews to Treblinka for extermination, and about 2,000 were shot on the spot.
- By
- German occupiers
- Where
- Częstochowa, Silesia, Poland
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Deportation of Dortmund Jews to Zamosc and Belzec
On April 27, 1942, between 700 and 800 Dortmund Jews were deported to Zamosc and then on to Belzec.
- By
- Nazi regime
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Deportation of Frankfurt Jews to Theresienstadt (1942)
Twenty-four Jews from Frankfurt were deported to Theresienstadt on August 27, 1942.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, Germany
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Deportation of Fulda Jews to Theresienstadt and the East
In September 1942, 76 more Jews from Fulda were sent to Theresienstadt and unknown destinations in the East.
- By
- Unknown
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Deportation of German Jews to Theresienstadt begins
Germany started deporting its Jews to Theresienstadt.
- By
- Unknown
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Deportation of Gurs internees to Poland
Jews from Baden held at Gurs were deported onward to Poland from 1942.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Deportation of Hamburg Jews to Auschwitz and Theresienstadt
In July 1942, 1,997 Jews were deported from Hamburg to Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.
- By
- Nazi regime
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Deportation of Hermanuv Mestec Jews to Auschwitz via Theresienstadt
The remaining Jews of the town were deported to Theresienstadt and then on to Auschwitz. The synagogue's ritual objects were sent to the Central Jewish Museum in Prague.
- By
- Nazi German authorities
- Where
- Heřmanův Městec, Bohemia, Czech Republic
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Deportation of Hildesheim Jews to Theresienstadt
Most of the remaining Jews were deported, including 51 sent to Theresienstadt on July 24, 1942.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Deportation of Hodonín Jews to Kyjov, Theresienstadt and extermination camps
Nazi authorities deported the Jews of Hodonín first to Kyjov and then to Theresienstadt, from where they were sent on to extermination camps.
- By
- Nazi authorities
- Where
- Hodonín, Moravia, Czech Republic
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Deportation of Jews from Budweis to death camps
On April 18, 909 Jews were deported to the death camps.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Deportation of Jews from Bytom
During World War II, 1,078 Jews were deported from Bytom, most ending up in Auschwitz.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Deportation of Jews from Wiesbaden
About 1,100 Jews were deported from Wiesbaden in 1942.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Deportation of Jihlava Jews to extermination camps
The Jews were deported to Nazi extermination camps in 1942.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Jihlava, Moravia, Czech Republic
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Deportation of Kolín Jews to Theresienstadt and death camps
From June 1942, over two thousand Jews from Kolín and elsewhere were deported in three transports to Theresienstadt, and most later died in extermination camps.
- By
- Nazi German authorities
- Where
- Kolín, Bohemia, Czech Republic
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Deportation of Luxembourg's remaining Jews
After the January 1942 emigrations, the remaining Jews were deported and few survived.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Luxembourg
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Deportation of Olomouc Jews to extermination camps
Jews concentrated in Olomouc from the surrounding area were deported via Theresienstadt to extermination camps in June–July 1942, with only 232 surviving.
- By
- Nazi German authorities
- Where
- Olomouc, Moravia, Czech Republic
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Deportation of Pezinok Jews to Auschwitz
In summer 1942 the Jews of Pezinok were deported to Auschwitz.
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- Slovak state and Nazi Germany
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Deportation of Prostějov Jews to extermination camps
The Jews who remained in Prostějov were deported to Nazi extermination camps in 1942, and over 1,200 local Jews died in the Holocaust.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Prostějov, Moravia, Czech Republic
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Deportation of Regensburg Jews
About 230 Jews from Regensburg and the surrounding countryside were deported to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Lublin.
- By
- Nazi regime
- Where
- Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Deportation of Ulm Jews to Theresienstadt and elsewhere
During World War II 116 Jews were deported from Ulm, including 45 sent to Theresienstadt on Aug. 22, 1942; only four returned.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Ulm, Württemberg, Germany
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Deportation of elderly Dortmund Jews
On July 29, 1942, 331 elderly Jews were deported from Dortmund.
- By
- Nazi regime
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Deportation of last Bayreuth Jews to Theresienstadt
The last 11 Jews of Bayreuth were transported to Bamberg on the way to Theresienstadt.
- By
- Nazi authorities
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Deportation of last Jews of Hanau
The remaining 26 Jews of Hanau were deported to Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Deportation of the Jews of Mainz
Most of the Jewish community was deported to Poland and Theresienstadt in March and September.
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- Nazi authorities
- Where
- Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Deportation of the Paderborn Jewish orphanage
The staff and children of the Jewish orphanage were deported in July 1942.
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- Nazi authorities
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Deportation of the last Jews from Ahrweiler
The remaining Jews of Ahrweiler were deported in July 1942.
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- Nazis
- Where
- Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Deportations from Central Europe to Belzec begin
The Nazis started sending Jews from Central Europe to the Belzec death camp in Poland.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Central Europe (several countries)
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Deportations from Holland and France; 1,000 sent from Drancy
Jews continued to be deported from Holland and France, with 1,000 sent from the Drancy transit camp to Auschwitz.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Netherlands
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Deportations from Holland, Belgium, Poland and Theresienstadt
Jews from Holland and Belgium were sent to Auschwitz; from central Poland and Theresienstadt to Treblinka; and from Eastern Galicia in Poland to Belzec.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Netherlands
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Deportations of Jews from Brieg
Deportations of the Jews of Brieg to the east began in March 1942.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Brzeg (Brieg), Silesia, Poland
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Deportations of Jews from Schweinfurt
In April 1942, 23 Jews were deported to Izbica near Lublin, and in October 54 more were sent to Theresienstadt.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany
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Deportations to Theresienstadt begin
Transports to Theresienstadt started.
- By
- Unknown
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Drancy transport reaches Auschwitz; 773 gassed
The Drancy train arrived at Auschwitz; 227 of the Jews were chosen for forced labor and 773 were gassed.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Drancy, Île-de-France, France
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Dutch Volunteer Auxiliary Police formed to round up Jews
In Holland a collaborating auxiliary police force, the Vrijwillige Hulp-Politie (Volunteer Auxiliary Police), was created and tasked with arresting Dutch Jews for deportation eastward.
- By
- Unknown
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Dzialoszyce Jews rounded up; 2,000 shot in cemetery
Gestapo agents with Polish and Ukrainian police seized all 10,000 Jews in Dzialoszyce, Poland, and tormented them through a full day in the hot sun. Two thousand were shot in the Dolles Jewish cemetery.
- By
- Gestapo agents and by
- Where
- Działoszyce, Świętokrzyskie, Poland
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Dzyatlava massacre
The Dzyatlava massacres were two consecutive mass shooting actions carried out three months apart during the Holocaust. The town of Zdzięcioł (Yiddish: זשעטל, romanized: Zhetel, Polish: Zdzięcioł, Belarusian: Dzyatlava) was located in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic prior to World War II.
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- SS, Order Police battalions, Lithuanian and Belarusian Auxiliary Police
- Where
- Dzyatlava (Zdzięcioł), Belarus
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Dünamünde Action
The Dünamünde Action (German: Aktion Dünamünde) were two mass killings of Jews committed by the SS and the Arajs Kommando in Biķernieki forest near Riga, Latvia in March 1942. It is sometimes separated into the First Dünamünde Action on 15 March and the Second Dünamünde Action on 26 March.
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- Kurt Krause, Eduard Roschmann, Gerhard Maywald
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Eastern Galician Jews deported to Belzec; 150,000 murdered
Jews from Poland's Eastern Galicia region were sent to Belzec, where 150,000 Jews were killed over the course of the month.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Eastern Galicia, Ukraine
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Eduard Schulte reveals the plan to murder Europe's Jews
Eduard Schulte, a German industrialist whose firm owned mines near Auschwitz, told a Swiss contact that Hitler and the Reich planned to gather Occupied Europe's millions of Jews in the East and kill them with prussic acid from fall 1942. Word quickly reached Gerhart Riegner of the World Jewish Congress in Switzerland.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Nazi-occupied Europe (several countries)
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Edward Rotbel deported; Dutch Jews gassed at Auschwitz
Edward Rotbel, a Jewish leader in Brussels, was sent to Auschwitz, where several hundred Jews from Holland were gassed.
- By
- Unknown
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Einsatzgruppe A reports 229,052 Baltic Jews killed
Einsatzgruppe A filed a report on its "liquidation" of 229,052 Jews across the Baltic states.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Baltic states (several countries)
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Einsatzgruppen report Crimea emptied of Jews
An Einsatzgruppen Report stated that no Jews remained in Crimea.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Einsatzgruppen shoot 500 Jewish families near Zagrodski
In Ukraine, SS Einsatzgruppen shot about 500 Jewish families and threw them into a mass grave close to the town of Zagrodski.
- By
- SS Einsatzgruppen and dumped
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Einsatzgruppen shoot Rovno Jews in the streets
In Rovno, Ukraine, Einsatzgruppen seized several thousand Jews and shot them in the streets.
- By
- Einsatzgruppen
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Execution of last 150 artisans and liquidation of Pinsk ghetto
The remaining 150 Jewish artisans were executed at the local cemetery on December 23, 1942, and the ghetto was liquidated.
- By
- German occupation forces
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Execution of last Jewish artisans in Lutsk labor camp
The remaining 500 Jewish artisans in the labor camp were executed on December 12, 1942, after they resisted German attacks.
- By
- German occupation forces
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Faked cheerful postcards reach Dutch Jewish homes
Jewish households in Holland received forged, cheerful postcards supposedly from loved ones held at Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Netherlands
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Falenica Jewish community murdered at Treblinka
The Jews of Falenica, Poland, were wiped out at the Treblinka death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Fifteen thousand Lvov Jews deported to Belzec
From Lvov, Ukraine, 15,000 Jews were sent to Belzec.
- By
- Unknown
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Fifteen thousand Warsaw Jews deported to Treblinka
From Warsaw, 15,000 Jews were sent to the Treblinka death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Fifty Kraków Jewish intellectuals deported to Auschwitz
In an action targeting Jewish intellectuals, the Nazis seized 50 Jews in Kraków and sent them to Auschwitz.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Kraków, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Fifty thousand Lvov Jews deported to Belzec
From Lvov, 50,000 Jews were sent to the Belzec death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Final Aktion in the Pinsk ghetto
On October 28, 1942, nearly all Pinsk Jews, except 150 artisans, were killed in the final Aktion.
- By
- German occupation forces
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First Jewish transports reach Auschwitz
The first trainloads of Jews arrived at the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camps (Auschwitz I and II).
- By
- Unknown
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First Theresienstadt transports to Auschwitz
Transports from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz began.
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- Unknown
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First Western European Jews deported to Belzec
Jews from Western Europe were sent to Belzec for the first time.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Western Europe (several countries)
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First deportation from Bialystok district to Auschwitz
The Bialystok district's first transport of Jews left for Auschwitz.
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- Unknown
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First deportation from Norway to Auschwitz
Jews from Norway were deported to Auschwitz for the first time.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Norway
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First deportation from Tarnow to Belzec
About 12,000 Tarnow Jews were deported to the Belzec death camp and murdered.
- By
- German occupation authorities
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First gassing selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau carried out its first selection of prisoners for the gas chambers, choosing those who were weak, ill or deemed "unfit."
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
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First train from Westerbork to Auschwitz
The first transport left Holland's Westerbork transit camp for Auschwitz. By September 13, 1944, more than 100 trains had carried upwards of 100,000 people to concentration camps and killing centers within the General Government and the German Reich.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Westerbork, Drenthe, Netherlands
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First transport from Germany arrives at Auschwitz
The first trainload of Jews from Germany reached Auschwitz.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Germany
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First transports from Drancy to Auschwitz
The first trains left the Drancy camp for Auschwitz.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Drancy, Île-de-France, France
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Friedman attacks a guard at Treblinka; SS fires on deportees
Just off the train at Treblinka, a Jew named Friedman slashed a Ukrainian guard's throat with a razor blade. The SS at once shot into the crowd of new arrivals in reprisal.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Galicia ghettos reduced from 1,000 to 55
In the fall of 1942 the German commander of Galicia ordered the number of ghettos cut sharply, part of the move toward the Final Solution.
- By
- German commander of Galicia
- Where
- Galicia (several countries)
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Gas chambers installed at Majdanek
Majdanek was equipped with gas chambers.
- By
- Unknown
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Gassing begins at Treblinka
Treblinka started gassing operations. From July 1942 to November 1943, SS special units there killed roughly 750,000 Jews and no fewer than 2,000 Gypsies.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Gassing operations begin at Sobibor
Following test gassings that April, a special SS unit started killing with gas at Sobibor; by the end of November 1943 it had murdered about 250,000 Jews at that killing center.
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- Nazi Germany
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German Jews and Paderborn orphans deported to Theresienstadt
Hundreds of Jews from Germany were sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto/camp, including every Jewish orphan in Paderborn, Germany.
- By
- Unknown
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German SS and police officials and their auxiliaries deport more than 76,000 Jews from District Galicia in the Generalgouvernement, including 40,000 from the Lvov (Lwow; L'viv) ghetto, to the Belzec killing center, where the SS Special Detachment kills them.
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- Nazi Germany
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German SS and police officials and their auxiliaries liquidate the Radom ghetto in German-occupied Poland, deporting about 30,000 Jews, most of them to the Treblinka killing center.
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- Nazi Germany
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German authorities begin deportation of Dutch Jews from the Westerbork, Amersfoort, and Vught camps in the Netherlands to killing centers and concentration camps in Germany and German-occupied Poland. By September 3, 1944, around 100 trains have carried more than 100,000 people to Auschwitz, Sobibor, Theresienstadt (Terezín), and Bergen-Belsen, including about 60,000 Jews to Auschwitz and about 34,000 Jews to Sobibor.
- By
- Unknown
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Germans begin killing Caucasus Jews
On reaching the Caucasus, German forces started exterminating the region's native Jews.
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- Unknown
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Germans murder 96 Bialka villagers for aiding Jews
German soldiers came into Bialka, a Polish village, and killed 96 residents suspected of hiding Jews escaping the Aktion in the Parczew Forest nearby.
- By
- Unknown
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Germans open Jawiszowice slave-labor camp
Near Auschwitz, the Germans opened the Jawiszowice forced-labor camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Germany conceals fate of Dutch deportees
Germany chose to hide where Dutch deportees had gone, stating only that their destination was "unknown" and "somewhere in the East"; in fact they were taken to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- East
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Gestapo shoots children before parents in Tarnów
In Tarnów, Poland, Gestapo agents shot Jewish children while their parents were made to look on; the parents and other adults were then sent to Belzec to be killed.
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- Gestapo agents
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Gorlice Jewish community deported to Belzec
Every Jew in Gorlice, Poland, was sent to the Belzec extermination camp.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Gorlice, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Grossaktion Warsaw
first deportation from Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka during Grossaktion Warsaw
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Hollandia-Kattenburg
Hollandia-Kattenburg: 1942 Nazi roundup.
- By
- Unknown
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Hrubieszów Jews deported to Sobibór
Jews from Hrubieszów, Poland, were sent to the Sobibór death camp, with another 500 to follow a week later.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Hrubieszów, Lublin, Poland
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Hundreds of Jewish women and Dutch deportees gassed at Birkenau
About 800 Jewish women at Auschwitz-Birkenau, worn down by starvation and overwork, were gassed. Afterward, 661 Jews from a transport from Holland were also gassed there.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Jewish internees at Breendonk are sent to the Mechelen transit camp in preparation for deportation to Auschwitz.
- By
- Unknown
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Jewish teenager tortured and killed at Belzec
At the Belzec death camp, guards took a healthy Jewish teenager off a transport, stripped him, hung him upside down on gallows for three hours, then killed him by forcing sand down his throat with sticks.
- By
- Unknown
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Jewish women at Auschwitz-Birkenau chosen for medical experiments
At Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jewish women were picked out to be subjected to medical experiments.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Jewish women massacred at Budy labor camp
At a small labor camp in Budy, Poland, non-Jewish German women prisoners beat, maimed and killed dozens of Jewish women held there. Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss afterward inspected the site.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Budy, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Jewish women partisans bomb Nazi barracks in Paris
In an operation Mayer List led, two Jewish women from the Paris partisans set two time bombs at a window of a Nazi barracks; the blasts would kill several soldiers.
- By
- Mayer List
- Where
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Jews of Benghazi are attacked
Jews of Benghazi are attacked. German and Italian troops fighting the Allies in North Africa occupied the Jewish quarter of Benghazi, plundered shops and deported jews to concentration camps.
- By
- Unknown
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Jews of Novy Dvor moved to Sukhovolia ghetto and deported to Auschwitz
In spring 1942 the Jews were transferred to the ghetto in Sukhovolia and then sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where most perished.
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- Nazi Germany
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June 6 German authorities begin deportations of Jews from the Krakow ghetto
June 6 German authorities begin deportations of Jews from the Krakow ghetto. By June 8, the Germans deport 6,000 Jews from the ghetto to the Belzec killing center.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Kraków, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Józefów Massacre
Józefów Massacre refers to the mass murder of Polish Jewish inhabitants of Józefów Biłgorajski carried out by German occupiers on 13 July 1942. On Winiarczykowa Góra near Józefów, officers of the 101st Reserve Police Battalion (Reserve-Polizei-Bataillon 101) shot 1,300 to 1,500 Jews.
- By
- German occupiers
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Kalush Jews deported to Belzec
Jews of Kalush, Ukraine, were sent to the Belzec death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Kaluszyn council head Gamzu executed; 6,000 deported
Abraham Gamzu, who led the Kaluszyn, Poland, Jewish Council, was executed for refusing to hand over Jews for deportation. Six thousand townspeople were sent to Treblinka and killed.
- By
- Unknown
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Kamenka Jews murdered at Belzec
The Jews of Kamenka, Ukraine, were deported and killed at the Belzec death camp.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Kamianka-Buzka, Galicia, Ukraine
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Killing of 400 Jews in Liepaja in February 1942
Four hundred Jews were killed in February 1942.
- By
- German occupiers
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Killing of 500 Jews in May 1942
Five hundred Jews were killed on May 17, leaving only a few hundred artisans alive.
- By
- Nazi Germans
- Where
- Daugavpils, Latgale, Latvia
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Killing of Jews of the first Bar ghetto
Jews of the first ghetto were held for three days without food or water, then 1,742 were shot at the Jewish cemetery; survivors were put in a labor camp.
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- German occupation authorities
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Killing of children of mixed marriages in Kherson
In February 1942 the Germans killed about 400 children of mixed marriages, after executing Jews found in hiding.
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- German occupying forces
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Kolomyia Jews deported to Belzec; 1,000 killed in ghetto
No fewer than 5,000 Jews of Kolomyia, Ukraine, were sent to Belzec, and 1,000 more were killed inside the Kolomyia Ghetto.
- By
- Unknown
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Korets Jews flee and burn their ghetto
Told the ghetto was about to be liquidated, some Jews of Korets, Ukraine, fled to the forest and others set the ghetto on fire in resistance, led by Moshe Gildenman.
- By
- Moshe Gildenman
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Korherr Report
The Korherr Report is a 1943 document giving statistics on the progress of the Holocaust in German-controlled Europe produced by the chief inspector of the statistical bureau of the SS, Richard Korherr under the title Die Endlösung der Judenfrage (The Final Solution to the Jewish Question).
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- Nazi Germany
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Kowale Panskie Jews deported to Chelmno
Jews from Kowale Panskie, Poland, were sent to the Chelmno death camp.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Kowale Pańskie, Greater Poland, Poland
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Kremenets Jews set ghetto ablaze resisting deportation
Facing deportation by Ukrainian police and Germans, Jews in Kremenets, Ukraine, burned their ghetto.
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- Ukrainian police and Germans
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Kurt Gerstein observes gassings at Treblinka
A day after seeing killings at Belzec, gas and disinfection specialist Kurt Gerstein watched Jews being gassed at Treblinka.
- By
- Unknown
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Kurt Gerstein witnesses gassing at Belzec
At Belzec, 700 to 800 Jews packed into a gas chamber suffered almost three hours while a faulty diesel engine was started to fill it with lethal fumes. Kurt Gerstein, an SS gas and disinfection specialist opposed to the Nazis, was present as an observer.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Lachva revolt led by Dov Lopatyn
In Lachva, Belorussia, over 800 Jews rose up against the Nazis under Dov Lopatyn; most of the fighters died.
- By
- Dov Lopatyn
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Libyan Jews sent to Giado forced-labor camp
Italian-German forces sent 2,600 Jews from Libya to Giado, Libya, a forced-labor camp, where they were made to build military roads.
- By
- Italian-German forces
- Where
- Jadu (Giado), Tripolitania, Libya
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Lidice women brought to Ravensbrück
Close to 200 women from Lidice, a Czech village, reached Ravensbrück. The Germans had razed Lidice, near Prague, in reprisal after Reinhard Heydrich, Germany's governor of Bohemia-Moravia and Security Police chief, was assassinated.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Ravensbrück, Brandenburg, Germany
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Liquidation of Bogusze camp and deportation to death camps
German and Polish police carried out an Aktion in August 1942, liquidating the Bogusze camp. Its Jewish prisoners were sent to Treblinka and Auschwitz, where nearly all were killed.
- By
- German and Polish police
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Liquidation of Jewish hospital patients in Belgrade
Patients of the Jewish hospital in the Jewish quarter were killed.
- By
- German occupiers
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Liquidation of the Kovel ghetto of the able-bodied
From August 19 to October 6, 1942 the Germans liquidated the remaining ghetto, with captured escapees held in the Great Synagogue before being taken to their deaths.
- By
- German occupation forces
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Liquidation of the Slonim ghetto
Germans and collaborators surrounded and burned the ghetto, killing many in the flames and shooting escapees in the fields of Pietralewicze, leaving about 800 alive.
- By
- Germans and their collaborators
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Liquidation of the disabled section of the Kovel ghetto
On June 2, 1942 the city section holding the disabled was liquidated, and its inhabitants were taken to the Bykhava quarries and killed.
- By
- German occupation forces
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Liquidation of the first Dubno ghetto
On October 5, 1942, about 4,500 ghetto inhabitants were murdered, and on October 23 the remaining 353 artisans were killed.
- By
- Germans
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Lodz deportations to Chelmno begin
The so-called "resettlements" of Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno extermination camp began.
- By
- Unknown
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Losice Jewish community destroyed at Treblinka
The Jews of Losice, Poland, were taken to the Treblinka death camp, where the community was wiped out.
- By
- Unknown
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Lublin Jews deported to Belzec under Operation Reinhard
German SS and police jointly sent Jews from Lublin, General Government, to be killed at Belzec. These were the first large deportations of Operation Reinhard, the German plan to murder over 2 million Jews residing in the occupied Polish General Government.
- By
- Operation Reinhard
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Lublin ghetto deported to Belzec and Majdanek
In the so-called "resettlement" of the Lublin ghetto, 26,000 people were sent to the Belzec and Majdanek extermination camps and to other camps.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Lódz Ghetto Jews gassed at Chelmno
Jews taken from the Lódz Ghetto were murdered with gas at the Chelmno death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Lódz Ghetto official Salomon Malkes takes his life
Salomon Malkes, a Lódz Ghetto official, killed himself in despair after his mother was deported.
- By
- Unknown
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Marcinkance Jews break for the ghetto fence; 360 killed
In Marcinkance, Lithuania, 370 Jews refused to get on deportation trains and ran for the ghetto edge. In the chaos 360 Jews and many guards died.
- By
- Unknown
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Martin Luther reports Italian resistance to Croatian deportations
Martin Luther, undersecretary at the German Foreign Ministry, informed Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Foreign Minister, that officials of Italy were opposing German plans to deport Jews from the parts of Croatia Italy held.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Italian-occupied territories (several countries)
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Massacre in Budy
Massacre in Budy: 1942 massacre in KL Auschwitz. Deaths: 90.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Meir Berliner kills SS officer at Treblinka; 150 executed
Meir Berliner, a Jew from Argentina deported from Warsaw to Treblinka, killed SS officer Max Bialas with a penknife. In retaliation the Germans executed Berliner along with 150 other prisoners.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Murder of 2,000 Jews who emerged from hiding
On September 1, 1942, about 2,000 Jews who came out of hiding were murdered.
- By
- German occupation forces
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Murder of Bryansk Jews under German occupation
Jews who had not escaped before the German occupation of the city were murdered in August 1942.
- By
- Germans
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Murder of Jews in the second Dubno ghetto
On May 26–27, 1942, the Germans killed all the Jews of the second ghetto and buried them in mass graves.
- By
- Germans
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Murder of Jews of the second Bar ghetto
The 2,000 Jews of the second ghetto were murdered on October 15, 1942.
- By
- German occupation authorities
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Murder of about 2,000 Jews of Smolensk
In June–July 1942 about 2,000 Jews from the Smolensk ghetto were murdered.
- By
- German occupation authorities
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Murder of remaining Slonim Jews in December 1942
About 300 of the remaining Jews were murdered in December 1942.
- By
- Germans
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Nazis execute Hamburg Jewish leaders in Minsk Ghetto
In the Minsk Ghetto, the Nazis shot Jewish leaders who had been sent there from Hamburg, Germany, three months before.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Nazis liquidate the Roudnice Jewish community
The Nazis liquidated the Jewish community of Roudnice and sent the synagogue's contents to Prague.
- By
- Nazis
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Nazis murder Rembertów Ghetto children
The Nazis killed the Rembertów Ghetto's children and gathered over 1,000 of its adult Jews to be deported to the Treblinka death camp.
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- Nazi Germany
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Nearly 1,000 Belgian Jews deported east, 232 of them children
Close to 1,000 Jews from Belgium, 232 of them children, were sent on a transport to the East.
- By
- Unknown
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Nearly 48,000 Warsaw Jews deported to Treblinka
Close to 48,000 Jews were sent from Warsaw to the Treblinka extermination camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Night in boxcars at Drancy; two escape en route
A thousand Jews at Drancy, France, were packed overnight into boxcars on a siding. After the train left for Auschwitz, two of them slipped out through a small window whose bars had been loosened.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Drancy, Île-de-France, France
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Niéswiez Jews fight Nazi attackers
The 600 Jews still in Niéswiez, Poland, fought the Nazis who came for them. Many Jews died, as did a few Nazis, and some surviving Jews escaped into the forests nearby.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Norwegian Jewish men shipped toward Auschwitz
Jewish men in Norway were arrested, shipped to Szczecin, Poland, and then taken by train to Auschwitz.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Norway
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Norwegian bishops protest deportation of Jews
In Oslo, Norway's Protestant bishops openly opposed the deportation of Norwegian Jews, writing to Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling that "God does not differentiate between people."
- By
- Unknown
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November 5 Between September 22 and November 5, 1942, German SS and police officials and their auxiliaries deport 39,000 Jews from Czestochowa, in Radom District of the Generalgouvernement, and another nearly 267,000 Jews who resided in the smaller cities and countryside of Radom District, to the Treblinka killing center.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Częstochowa, Silesia, Poland
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Olesko Jews deported to Belzec
The Jews of Olesko, Ukraine, were sent as a community to the Belzec death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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One thousand Belgian Jews deported to their deaths
A thousand Jews from Belgium, 172 of them children, were sent east to be killed.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- East
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One thousand Prague Jews deported east and murdered
From Prague, 1,000 Jews were sent eastward and killed there.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic
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One thousand Theresienstadt Jews deported to Riga
From the Theresienstadt camp/ghetto, 1,000 Jews were sent to Riga, Latvia.
- By
- Unknown
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Over 1,000 Jews killed in Warsaw Ghetto streets
Nazis killed more than 1,000 Polish Jews out on the Warsaw Ghetto's streets.
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- Nazis
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Over 1,000 Rome Jews arrested and sent to Auschwitz
In Rome the Nazis seized more than 1,000 Jews and deported them to Auschwitz.
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- Nazi Germany
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Over 10,000 Lódz Ghetto Jews deported to Chelmno
Chelmno received more than 10,000 Jews sent from the Lódz Ghetto.
- By
- Unknown
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Over 170,000 Jews killed in one week at three camps
In a single week, more than 170,000 Jews were killed at Belzec, Auschwitz and Treblinka.
- By
- Unknown
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Over 23,000 Jews gassed at Belzec and Sobibór
More than 23,000 Jews were killed with gas in the death camps of Belzec and Sobibór.
- By
- Unknown
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Over two million Jews deported to death camps by now
By this point the German Reich had sent over two million Jews to the death camps, and Einsatzgruppen and police battalions had murdered hundreds of thousands more.
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- Einsatzgruppen and police battalions
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Parents of deported Lódz children take their lives
Icek and Fraidla Dobrzynska, a Jewish couple whose two children had been deported from the Lódz Ghetto in September 1942, killed themselves.
- By
- Unknown
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Paris Jews held at Drancy deported to Auschwitz
Parisian Jews detained at Drancy, France, from July 16 onward began to be sent to the Auschwitz death camp.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Drancy, Île-de-France, France
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Pianist Leopold Birkenfeld murdered at Chelmno
Leopold Birkenfeld, a celebrated Jewish pianist from Vienna, was killed at the Chelmno death camp.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Chełmno, Greater Poland, Poland
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Pilica Jews deported to Belzec; hundreds escape
From Pilica, Poland, 3,000 Jews were sent to Belzec, though several hundred got away before the transport arrived.
- By
- Unknown
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Poland tells Eden of systematic extermination of Jews
Poland's ambassador in Britain told Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that Poland's exiled government could confirm Germany was methodically exterminating all the Jews of Poland and of the rest of Europe.
- By
- Unknown
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Polish partisan Trzcinski smuggles grenade to Treblinka deportees
Trzcinski, a Polish partisan, handed a grenade into a train car of Jews bound for the Treblinka death camp; it was later used at the camp to injure several Ukrainian guards.
- By
- Unknown
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Pope Pius XII told of German gassing of Jews
Through the Vatican secretariat of state, Poland's ambassador to the Holy See reported to Pope Pius XII that the Germans had killed thousands of Jews with gas.
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- Pope Pius XII
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Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) chief Reinhard Heydrich convenes the Wannsee Conference in a villa outside Berlin. There he presents plans to coordinate a European-wide “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” to key officials from the German State and the Nazi Party.
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- Nazi Germany
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Reichsführer-SS (SS chief) Heinrich Himmler issues a general order to the Higher SS and Police Leader in the Generalgouvernement that, by December 31, 1942, SS and police authorities “resettle” all Jews residing in the Generalgouvernement, either to the killing centers or in closed camps located in the major cities.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- General Government, Poland
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Remaining Odessa Jews deported to camps
Almost every Jew still left in Odessa, Ukraine, was sent to concentration camps.
- By
- Unknown
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Resettlement actions transferring Kaunas Jews to Riga
Two resettlement actions in 1942 transferred Jews from the Kaunas ghetto to Riga.
- By
- German occupation authorities
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Resistance leader Dr. Yeheskel Atlas mortally wounded
Dr. Yeheskel Atlas, a young Jewish doctor from Poland who led resistance fighters, was fatally wounded fighting Nazi troops at Wielka Wola, Poland.
- By
- Nazi troops
- Where
- Wielka Wola, Poland
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Revolt of Jews slated for Auschwitz crushed at Sachsenhausen
At Sachsenhausen, Nazis put down an uprising by Jews who had been selected for deportation to Auschwitz.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Sachsenhausen, Brandenburg, Germany
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Riegner cable on the "Final Solution" reaches Stephen Wise
Stephen S. Wise, head of the World Jewish Congress, got a cable from Gerhart Riegner, the WJC's man in Switzerland, about the "Final Solution." Wise chose to hold back the news until it could be confirmed.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Switzerland
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Ropczyce Jewish community murdered at Belzec
The Jews of Ropczyce, Poland, were killed at the Belzec death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Roundup of foreign Jews in the Unoccupied Zone
A major roundup of foreign Jews took place in the Unoccupied Zone in late August 1942.
- By
- Vichy authorities
- Where
- Unoccupied Zone, France
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Roundup of foreign-born Jews in the Toulouse region
In August 1942, 1,525 foreign-born Jews from the region were regrouped for deportation.
- By
- Vichy French authorities
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Rumkowski yields to deportation of Lódz children and elderly
Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Lódz Ghetto Jewish Council, gave in to Nazi demands to deport the ghetto's children and those older than 65. During the roundup Germans shot at random into crowds, executed individuals and stormed Jewish hospitals.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Rzeszów Jews killed in Rudna Forest and at Belzec
In the Rudna Forest, 1,000 Jews from Rzeszów, Poland, were murdered, and 14,000 more were sent to the Belzec death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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SS Aktion at Piotrków; 22,000 deported to Treblinka
The SS carried out an Aktion against the Jews of Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, shooting many in their homes and sending 22,000 to Treblinka.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
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SS guard kills Jadzia Beer on train to Belzec
On a train bound for the Belzec death camp, an SS guard shot dead Jadzia Beer, a Polish girl who came from Jaworów, as she hung helpless from a railcar window in which her skirt had caught.
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- Nazi Germany
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SS guard tramples a Jewish baby to death at Treblinka
At Treblinka, an SS guard brutally beat his German shepherd for licking a Jewish baby's face, then stamped the baby to death.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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SS halts killing at Belzec
The SS ended extermination operations at Belzec.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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SS man murders a baby in Ciechanów
In Ciechanów, Poland, an SS man courteously asked a Jewish mother for her baby, then flung it headfirst onto the street, killing it.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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SS moves 1,000 women from Ravensbrück to Auschwitz-Birkenau
During the following two days the SS transferred 1,000 women, chiefly German Jews and also some Romani (Gypsy) women, out of Ravensbrück and into Auschwitz-Birkenau in occupied Poland, where it set up a women's camp.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Ravensbrück, Brandenburg, Germany
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SS orders Jewish children's mittens sent to SS families
A secret SS order called for mittens and stockings taken from Jewish children in the death camps to be collected and shipped to SS families.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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SS shoots and deports Radom Jews
In Radom, Poland, SS men shot 600 elderly people and children along with hundreds of Jews discovered hiding. They sent 6,000 Jews from the small ghetto and 2,000 from the large ghetto to the Treblinka death camp.
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- Nazi Germany
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Sandomierz Jews murdered at Belzec
Jews of Sandomierz, Poland, reported as 3,230, were killed at the Belzec extermination camp.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Sandomierz, Poland
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Sarny massacre
Sarny Massacre: execution of between 14,000 and 18,000 persons, mostly Jews, in the Nazi-occupied city of Sarny. Deaths: 14000.
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- Nazi Germany
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Second deportation from Tarnow to Belzec
Another 8,000 Jews from Tarnow were deported to Belzec and killed.
- By
- German occupation authorities
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Second gas chamber operating at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau put a second gas chamber into operation.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Seven thousand Kraków Jews murdered at Belzec
At the Belzec extermination camp, 7,000 Jews from Kraków, Poland, were killed.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Kraków, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Seven thousand Lvov Jews murdered at Janówska
At the Janówska labor and extermination camp, 7,000 Jews from Lvov were killed.
- By
- Unknown
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Seven trains leave Westerbork for Auschwitz
Seven transports carrying Jewish deportees departed Westerbork, bound for the Auschwitz death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Six Lódz Jews take their lives fearing deportation
Afraid of being deported, six Jews in Lódz, Poland, killed themselves.
- By
- Unknown
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Sixteen thousand German Jews deported to Riga Ghetto
In Germany, 16,000 Jews were seized and sent to the Riga Ghetto in Latvia.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Germany
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Slovak and French Jews gassed at Auschwitz
At Auschwitz, 641 Jews from France and hundreds more from Slovakia were killed in the gas chambers.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Slovakia
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Slovak, Chelm and Polish Jews gassed at Sobibór
Jews from Slovakia and local Jews at Chelm were sent to Sobibór, a death camp close by, and killed with gas, as were over 36,000 Polish Jews from towns lying between the Bug and Vistula rivers.
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- Unknown
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Sobibór begins burning victims' bodies
At the Sobibór extermination camp, workers started cremating the corpses of those murdered there.
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- Unknown
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Sobibór death camp nearly ready
The Sobibór death camp was close to being operational, and gassing started in May.
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- Unknown
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Sobibór escapees betrayed by villagers and shot
Four prisoners who got out of Sobibór were shot dead after local villagers gave them away.
- By
- Unknown
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Sobibór killings paused to expand gas chambers
Killing at the Sobibór death camp was briefly suspended while rail lines were built and its gas chambers enlarged.
- By
- Unknown
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Sonderaktion 1005
Sonderaktion 1005: destruction of evidence of mass murder at Operation Reinhardt killing centres.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Ukraine
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State Department's Reams urges silence on the Holocaust
G. Robert Borden Reams, a State Department official in its Division of European Affairs regarded as an "expert" on Jews, recommended that the U.S. government say nothing about the details of the Holocaust.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Division of European Affairs
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Stephen Wise announces State Department confirmation of slaughter
World Jewish Congress founder and president Rabbi Stephen S. Wise told a press conference the U.S. State Department had confirmed the Nazi slaughter of Europe's Jews. He put the dead at two million, an underestimate.
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- Nazis
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Stopnica Jews: labor camp, cemetery shootings, death march
Men of Stopnica, Poland, were sent to slave labor at Skarzysko-Kamienna, and 400 elderly people and children were shot in the town cemetery. Another 3,000 were marched off, many shot en route, the survivors sent to Treblinka.
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- Unknown
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Szczebrzeszyn Jews hide from deportation order
When the Nazis ordered 2,000 Jews of Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, to gather for deportation, they hid instead; by nightfall only a few had been found.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Szczebrzeszyn, Poland
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Ten thousand Lódz Jews gassed at Chelmno
From the Lódz Ghetto, 10,000 Jews were sent to the Chelmno extermination camp and killed with gas.
- By
- Unknown
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Ten thousand Tarnów Ghetto Jews murdered at Belzec
At the Belzec extermination camp, 10,000 Jews from the Tarnów Ghetto were killed.
- By
- Unknown
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The Allied nations, including the governments of the United Kingdom and the United States, issue a press release stating explicitly that the German authorities were engaging in mass murder of the European Jews, and that those responsible for this “bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination” would “not escape retribution.”
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- Unknown
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The first transport of Jews (mostly Austrian) from the Greater German Reich arrives in Auschwitz from Vienna. Between July 17, 1942, and October 28, 1944, German authorities have deported more than 70,000 German, Austrian, and Czech Jews from the Greater German Reich to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Greater German Reich (several countries)
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Theresienstadt Jews deported to Izbica Lubelska
From the Theresienstadt camp/ghetto in Czechoslovakia, 1,000 Jews were sent to Izbica Lubelska, Poland; only one, a woman who escaped on arrival, lived. Other deportees from Theresienstadt were killed in the extermination camps of Sobibór and Belzec.
- By
- Unknown
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Theresienstadt deportees gassed at Maly Trostinets
A thousand Jews put on a train on the 4th of August from the Theresienstadt camp/ghetto were moved into gas vans at Maly Trostinets, close to Minsk, killed, and thrown into open pits.
- By
- Unknown
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Theresienstadt deportees gassed near Minsk
Jews sent from Theresienstadt were killed by gassing near Minsk.
- By
- Unknown
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Theresienstadt train to Rejowiec diverted to Sobibór
A train carrying 1,000 Jews from the Theresienstadt camp/ghetto in Czechoslovakia, bound for the Rejowiec ghetto in Poland, was rerouted to the Sobibór death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Thierack and Himmler agree on "extermination through work"
Justice Minister Otto Thierack and SS head Heinrich Himmler agreed to hand Jews and certain other prisoners to the SS, to be subjected to Vernichtung durch Arbeit ("extermination through work"), meaning forced labor until they died.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Third deportation from Tarnow
During a third deportation about 3,000 Jews of Tarnow died.
- By
- German occupation authorities
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Thousands of Miedzyrzec Jews sent to Treblinka
Many thousands of Jews were deported from Miedzyrzec, Poland, to the Treblinka death camp.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Międzyrzec Podlaski, Poland
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Thousands of Stry Jews murdered at Belzec
At the Belzec death camp, thousands of Jews deported from Stry, Ukraine, were murdered.
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- Unknown
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Three thousand Theresienstadt Jews deported to their deaths
From the Theresienstadt camp/ghetto, 3,000 Jews were sent away to be killed.
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- Unknown
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Three thousand Zamosc Jews deported to Belzec
From Zamosc, Poland, 3,000 Jews were sent to the Belzec death camp.
- By
- Unknown
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Treblinka extermination camp opens
The Treblinka death camp opened, and gassing on a mass scale started on July 23, 1942; by August 1943, 700,000 Jews had been killed there.
- By
- Unknown
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Treblinka gas-chamber capacity expanded
Building work at Treblinka sharply raised the capacity of its gas chambers.
- By
- Unknown
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Treblinka murders 3,500 Jews of Minsk Mazowiecki
At Treblinka, 3,500 Jews deported from Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, were killed.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland
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Tripoli Jews deported to Libyan labor sites
Over 1,750 Jews were sent from Tripoli, Libya, to labor under compulsion at Benghazi, Homs and Derna. Hundreds died of heat and starvation, and others were killed in Allied air raids after being barred from shelters.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya
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Truck with murdered Jews' luggage refuels near Lódz Ghetto
Near the Lódz Ghetto, a German truck stopping for fuel was hauling the baggage of "resettled" Jews who had already been killed at the Chelmno death camp.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Chełmno, Greater Poland, Poland
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Twelve thousand Przemysl Jews deported to Belzec
German authorities sent 12,000 Jews from Przemysl, Poland, to the Belzec death camp.
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- German authorities
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Twenty thousand Radom Jews murdered at Treblinka
At the Treblinka death camp, 20,000 Jews from Radom, Poland, were killed.
- By
- Unknown
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Typhus epidemic sweeps Auschwitz
A typhus epidemic devastated Auschwitz.
- By
- Unknown
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U.S. press treats Holocaust as routine war news
Adopting the U.S. government line that only total, unconditional Allied victory could help the Jews being massacred, American newspapers kept treating the Holocaust as an ordinary war story and avoided discussing the systematic destruction of the Jews.
- By
- Germans can be helped only
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US and Britain suppress the Riegner Cable
Officials of the US State Department and British Foreign Office chose to keep secret the Riegner Cable, which described the Holocaust in detail.
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- Unknown
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Van gassings at Chelmno; 5,000 Lódz Roma murdered
All day long at Chelmno, Jews deported from surrounding villages were killed in gas vans, and German and Ukrainian laborers pried gold teeth and dental fillings out of the dead. Germans also gassed 5,000 Gypsies from Lódz, Poland, in vans.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Chełmno, Greater Poland, Poland
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Viennese Jews deported to Minsk Ghetto
Jews from Vienna were sent to the Minsk Ghetto; one deportee, Elsa Speigel, chose to leave behind her son Jona, aged five and a half months.
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- Unknown
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Wannsee Conference
Senior Nazi officials, chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, met to coordinate the "Final Solution": the deportation and murder of the Jews of Europe.
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- Nazi Germany (Reinhard Heydrich and senior officials)
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Wannsee Conference plans the "Final Solution"
At the Wannsee Conference, Nazi leaders worked out the details of the "Final Solution," the genocide of the Jewish people.
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- Nazi Germany
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Wehrmacht general Walter von Reichenau dies
Walter von Reichenau, a general of the Wehrmacht who had worked with the Einsatzgruppen in Russia, died after a heart attack.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Russian Empire (several countries)
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World Jewish Congress learns of French deportations
Word of the deportation of French Jews reached the World Jewish Congress in Geneva.
- By
- Unknown
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Yeheskel Atlas partisans attack Derechin garrison
The Jewish partisan unit of Yeheskel Atlas raided the German garrison at Derechin, Belorussia, capturing and executing 44 German policemen.
- By
- Unknown
- Where
- Dziarečyn (Derechin), Grodno, Belarus
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Yishuv receives confirmation of the "Final Solution"
The Yishuv, the Jewish community of British-ruled Palestine, obtained confirmation of the "Final Solution."
- By
- Unknown
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ZOB assassinates ghetto police chief Jacob Lejkin
Fighters of the Jewish Fighting Organization in Warsaw killed Jacob Lejkin, the ghetto's acting Jewish police chief, because he had helped deport Jews.
- By
- Unknown
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ZOB leaders arrested and killed in Warsaw
In Warsaw, ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organization) leader Josef Kaplan was arrested, as fellow leader Yisrael Zeltzer already had been. A third, Shmuel Braslav, was stopped by German troops and shot dead when he tried to draw a knife.
- By
- German troops
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Zagreb Jews deported to Auschwitz
Jews were deported from Zagreb, Croatia, to Auschwitz.
- By
- Unknown
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Zagreb Jews deported to typhus-stricken Auschwitz
Jews from Zagreb, Croatia, were sent to Auschwitz, then gripped by a severe typhus epidemic.
- By
- Unknown
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Zelechów Jews murdered at Treblinka
Jews deported from Zelechów, Poland, were murdered at Treblinka.
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- Unknown
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Zmievskaya Balka
Zmievskaya Balka (Russian: Змиёвская балка, IPA: [zmʲɪˈjɵfskəjə ˈbaɫkə]; "Ravine of the snakes") is a site in Rostov-on-Don, Russia at which 27,000 Jews and other Soviet civilians were massacred from 1942 to 1943 by the SS Einsatzgruppe D during the Holocaust in Russia. It is considered to be the largest single mass killing site of Jews in the Russian SFSR during the Second World War.
- By
- SS Einsatzgruppe D
- Where
- Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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Zolochev council head murdered; 2,500 deported to Belzec
In Zolochev, Ukraine, Germans killed the Jewish Council chairman for refusing to sign a statement blaming a typhus outbreak for the ghetto's liquidation. Some 2,500 Jews, poet S. J. Imber among them, were sent to Belzec.
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- Germans
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Zwierzyniec Jewish Council pays gold ransom
Zwierzyniec, Poland's Jewish Council bought off the Germans with gold, so just 52 of the poorest local Jews were taken for deportation.
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- Unknown
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Zyklon B mass murder begins at Auschwitz-Birkenau
At Auschwitz-Birkenau, the mass killing of Jews with Zyklon B started; the victims' bodies were placed in mass graves in a meadow close by.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Deportation of Kalisz Jews to Chelmno and Lodz ghetto
By the end of 1941 some 200 Jews were sent to the Chelmno death camp, and a few months later the remaining Jews were sent to the Lodz ghetto, leaving Kalisz judenrein.
- By
- German occupation authorities
- Where
- Kalisz, Greater Poland, Poland
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Deportation of Marburg Jews
Most remaining Jews of Marburg were deported or forced to leave in 1941–42, and only ten survived the war.
- By
- Nazi authorities
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Deportation of the remaining Jews of Worms
The remaining Jews of Worms were deported to concentration camps, and few survived.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Deportations of Jews from Bremen
About 500 Jews were deported directly from Bremen, including 180 from the Jewish old age home.
- By
- Nazi regime
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Deportations of Jews from Hanover
Deportations began in December 1941 and continued into 1942, reducing the Jewish population to about 300.
- By
- Nazi authorities
- Where
- Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Deportations of Kassel Jews to Riga, Majdanek and Theresienstadt
The remaining Jews of Kassel were deported to Riga in 1941 and to Majdanek and Theresienstadt in 1942.
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- Nazi Germany
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Deportations of Nuremberg Jews
1,601 Jews were deported from Nuremberg to Riga, Izbica and Theresienstadt, with very few survivors.
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- Nazi Germany
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Djakovo camp for Jewish women and children
A camp for Jewish women and children was set up in an old mill in Djakovo; women and children from Stara Gradiška were added, and after an epidemic the camp was liquidated and inmates sent to Jasenovac for extermination.
- By
- Ustaše authorities of the Independent Croatian State
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German massacres of Jews in Podolia
After invading the Soviet Union, the Germans systematically murdered Podolian Jews who could not flee east, in massacres lasting to the end of 1942.
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- Germans
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Internment and gassing of Belgrade Jewish women and children
About 6,000 Jewish women and children were arrested in December 1941 and sent to the Saymishte camp, where many froze to death, and the rest were killed in gas vans between February and May 1942.
- By
- German occupiers
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Killing of remaining Ludza Jews
The few hundred Jews who remained after the Lake Zorba massacre were killed in small actions, the last in May 1942.
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- German occupation forces
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Arrest and deportation of foreign Jews from Nancy
In three Aktionen, German occupiers arrested and deported 130 Jews of foreign origin from Nancy.
- By
- Nazi Germany
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Deportation and extermination of Jews at Kalevi Liiva
About 3,000 Jews, mainly from Germany, were sent to the extermination site at Kalevi Liiva in 1942 and early 1943.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Kalevi-Liiva, Estonia
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Deportation of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork and the death camps
From July 1942 Amsterdam Jews were deported through Westerbork; the deportations ended on September 29, 1943, when the last Jews officially living in the city were arrested and sent away.
- By
- German occupation authorities
- Where
- Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Deportation of Benghazi Jews to Giado
About 2,600 Benghazi Jews were deported into the desert to Giado under harsh conditions. During some 14 months of exile, 562 died of starvation or typhus.
- By
- Axis forces
- Where
- Benghazi, Cyrenaica, LibyaJadu (Giado), Tripolitania, Libya
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Deportation of Koblenz Jews to the East
177 Jews from Koblenz and 544 from the surrounding district were deported to the East; only 22 Koblenz Jews survived.
- By
- Nazi regime
- Where
- Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Deportation of the last Jews of Alzey
The last 41 Jews of Alzey were deported to extermination camps in Eastern Europe.
- By
- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Alzey, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard: secretive German plan in World War II to exterminate Polish Jews in the General Government district of German-occupied Poland.
- By
- Odilo Globočnik, Hermann Höfle, Richard Thomalla, Erwin Lambert, Christian Wirth, Heinrich Himmler, Franz Stangl
- Where
- Germany
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Operation Reinhard in Kraków
Operation Reinhard in Kraków, often referred to by its original codename in German as Aktion Krakau, was a major 1942 German Nazi operation against the Jews of Kraków, Poland. It was headed by SS and Police Leader Julian Scherner from the Waffen-SS.
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- Amon Göth, Julian Scherner, Odilo Globočnik and others
- Where
- Kraków, Lesser Poland, Poland
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Treblinka death camp operates, 700,000–900,000 Jews murdered
- By
- Unknown
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Expulsion of Karlsruhe Jews to Gurs and deportation to Auschwitz
In October 1940, 895 Jews were expelled and interned at Gurs in southern France; most were later deported to Auschwitz in November 1942.
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- Nazi and Vichy authorities
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Deportation of Essen's Jews
Essen's remaining Jews were deported to Lodz, Minsk, Riga, Izbica, Theresienstadt and other destinations between 1941 and 1943.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Gully of Petrushino
Gully of Petrushino (Russian: Петрушинская балка), or Gully of Death (Балка смерти from German: Todesschlucht), is a site on the outskirts of Taganrog, Russia, at which 7,000 Soviet civilians, mostly Jews, were massacred between 1941 and 1943 by the German army, with the assistance of non-German divisions, during their occupation of Taganrog.
- By
- Otto Ohlendorf, Kurt Christmann
- Where
- Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia
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Persecution and murder of Zagreb Jews during the Holocaust
After the German occupation of Zagreb in April 1941, Jews were persecuted, taken for forced labor and murdered. Survivors were sent to Jasenovac and Auschwitz in late 1942 and early 1943.
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- Germans and Ustashe
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The Holocaust in Romania
The Holocaust in Romania: The Holocaust as it developed in Romania.
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- Unknown
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Arrests and deportations of Jews from Nantes
Jews in Nantes were arrested, imprisoned in the Caserne Richemont, and deported, reducing the community drastically by 1943, with deportations continuing in January 1944.
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- Vichy government and German occupiers
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Deportation of Erfurt Jews to the East
Of the 188 Jews remaining in September 1941, 152 were deported eastward in four transports between May 1942 and January 1944.
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- Nazi Germany
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Deportation of Jews from Belgium
Jews were summoned and later rounded up in raids and deported from Malines in convoys to the east; over 25,000 were deported and few returned.
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- Nazi German authorities
- Where
- Belgium
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Deportation of Jews from Bordeaux
German authorities deported 1,279 Jews from Bordeaux between July 1942 and February 1944.
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- Germans (Nazi occupation authorities)
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Deportation of Jews from France to Auschwitz
Between 1942 and 1944, some 85,000–90,000 Jews were deported from France in about 100 convoys, mostly to Auschwitz, and very few survived.
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- Germans and Vichy authorities
- Where
- France
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Deportations of Dresden Jews
Twelve deportations sent about 1,300 Jews from Dresden between January 1942 and January 1944.
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- Nazi German authorities
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Roundups and deportations of Belgian Jews
From July 1942 Jews were called up for labor, rounded up and interned at the Dossin camp near Mechlin, then deported to extermination camps in the east.
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- German occupation authorities
- Where
- Belgium
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Deportation of Halberstadt Jews
186 Jews were deported from Halberstadt between 1939 and 1942, and none returned.
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- Nazi authorities
- Where
- Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
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Deportations of Viennese Jews
Deportations began with transports to Nisko in October 1939 and continued until the last mass transport in September 1942, mostly to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz.
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- Nazi regime
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Deportation of remaining Karlsruhe Jews to the east
The remaining 429 Jews and non-Aryans of Karlsruhe were deported to the east.
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- Nazi regime
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Finland deports refugee Jews to the Gestapo
Under German pressure, Finnish authorities let the Gestapo deport some refugee Jews, but stopped after the first transport of eight, of whom only one survived.
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- Finnish authorities and the Gestapo
- Where
- Finland
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Ponary massacre
The Ponary massacre (Polish: zbrodnia w Ponarach), or the Paneriai massacre (Lithuanian: Panerių žudynės), was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, Poles, and Russians, by German SD and SS and the Lithuanian Ypatingasis būrys killing squads, during World War II and the Holocaust in the Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland.
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- SS Einsatzgruppe Lithuanian collaborators
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Deportations of Heidelberg Jews, mainly to Theresienstadt
A further 103 Jews were deported from Heidelberg, mainly to Theresienstadt.
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- Nazi authorities
- Where
- Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Deportations through Dortmund to the East
Dortmund served as an assembly point for deportations, with about 40,000 people deported in eight transports between 1942 and 1945.
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- Nazi regime
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Arrest and deportation of Strasbourg rabbis and youth leader
Rabbis Hirschler, Brunschwig and Cyper and youth leader Léo Cohn were arrested and deported to death camps for their resistance and relief work.
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- Nazis
- Where
- France
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Deportation of Dijon Jews to Auschwitz
Ninety Jews from Dijon were killed at Auschwitz during the Nazi period.
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- Nazi Germany
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Deportation of Leipzig Jews to the east
All remaining Jews of Leipzig were deported eastward in nine transports ending in February 1945.
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- Nazi Germany
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Deportation of Wuerttemberg Jews via Stuttgart
Stuttgart served as the collection point for deporting all Wuerttemberg Jews to Riga, Izbica, Auschwitz and Theresienstadt. About 1,000 Stuttgart Jews died in deportation or camps.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany
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Deportations of Berlin's Jews to ghettos and death camps
From autumn 1941 Berlin's Jews were deported in waves to the East, to Theresienstadt and to camps, where the great majority perished.
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- Nazi authorities
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Persecution, camp and deportation of Travnik Jews in World War II
The German-Croatian occupation violently suppressed the community and set up a concentration camp at nearby Kruščica. Survivors were deported and murdered elsewhere in Croatia or in Poland.
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- German-Croatian occupation authorities
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The Holocaust
Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered about six million Jews, roughly two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population, through mass shootings, extermination camps and other means.
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- Nazi Germany and its collaborators
- Where
- Nazi-occupied Europe (several countries)
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The Holocaust in Latvia
The Holocaust in Latvia: crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany and collaborators.
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- Nazi Germany and collaborators
- Where
- Latvia
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Nazi use of Kyjov camp to assemble and deport Jews
The Nazis used the Kyjov camp to gather the Jews of the town and district, and in early 1943 deported 2,852 people in three transports to Theresienstadt, from where they were sent on to Auschwitz.
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- Nazis
- Where
- Kyjov, Moravia, Czech Republic
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Zbylitowska Góra massacre
Zbylitowska Góra massacre: Mass executions of Jews and Poles carried out by Nazi German forces during the Second World War in Buczyna Forest near Zbylitowska Góra.. Deaths: 8000.
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- Schutzstaffel, Ordnungspolizei
- Where
- Zbylitowska Góra, Poland
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Deportation of Vercelli Jews during the Holocaust
Twenty-six Jews from Vercelli were sent to extermination camps during the Holocaust.
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- Nazi Germany and Italian Fascist authorities
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Deportation and killing of Jews of Phalsbourg in World War II
During the Second World War, nine Jews from Phalsbourg died while being deported and two others were shot.
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- Unknown
- Where
- Phalsbourg, Lorraine, France
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Deportation and murder of Krefeld Jews
Jews from Krefeld were deported to the East, mostly to Theresienstadt, while dozens were killed or driven to suicide in the city.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Deportation of Holesov Jews to extermination camps
Under the Nazi occupation, about 200 Jewish families were deported from Holesov to extermination camps.
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- Nazi occupation authorities
- Where
- Holešov, Moravia, Czech Republic
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Deportation of Munich Jews during the war
A total of 4,500 Jews were deported from Munich, many to Theresienstadt, and only about 300 returned.
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- Nazi regime
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Expulsion and deportation of Jews from Metz under German occupation
Under German occupation, Metz was made judenrein through brutal expulsions, and about 1,500 Jews died after deportation.
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- Nazi Germany
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Expulsion of Colmar Jews and ransacking of synagogue in WWII
During World War II the Jews of Colmar were expelled from their homes and the synagogue was completely ransacked.
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- Nazi Germany
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Holocaust denial
The Holocaust. About 6 million Jews, including about 1 million children, systematically killed by Nazi Germany and other Axis powers.
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- Nazi Germany and other
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The Holocaust
Nazi Germany carried out the Holocaust against the Jews.
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- Nazi Germany
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Holocaust murder of Eisenstadt Jews
One hundred and nine Jews from Eisenstadt were killed in the Holocaust.
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- Nazi Germany
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- Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria
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The Holocaust (Ha Shoah), resulting in the methodical extermination of nearly 6 million Jews across Europe.
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- Nazi Germany
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- Europe (several countries)
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The Holocaust in Poland
The Holocaust in Poland: genocide of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Deaths: 3000000.
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- Nazi Germany
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- Poland
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The Holocaust in Ukraine
The Holocaust in Ukraine: aspect of Nazi Germany's extermination campaign (1941–1945).
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- Nazi Germany
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- Ukraine
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Holocaust
Holocaust: in wide sense: Nazi genocides of Jews, Roma, homosexuals etc..
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- Nazi Germany
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- Germany
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Kristallnacht
The Nazi German persecution started with the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, reached a first climax during Kristallnacht in 1938 and culminated in the Holocaust of European Jewry. The 1938 Evian Conference, the 1943 Bermuda Conference and other attempts failed to resolve the problem of Jewish refugees, a fact widely used in Nazi propaganda.
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- Nazi Germany
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- Germany
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Crémieux Decree reestablished in Algeria
After the Allied liberation of Algeria, the Crémieux Decree was restored, returning citizenship to the Jews.
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- Allied Forces / French authorities
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- Algeria
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