• These Jews, together with about 8,000 from the city, were deported to Belzec in a mass action that took place on July 7-13, 1942. (ushmm.org)
  • On August 8, 1942 about 1,000 women and children were deported from the ghetto to the Peikinia concentration camp, where they were soon killed. (ushmm.org)
  • In November 1942 only about 3,000 Jews remained in the Rzeszow ghetto, which was converted into a labor camp. (ushmm.org)
  • At the beginning of 1942, it was replaced by The Central Bureau of Jews. (nizkor.com)
  • In July 1942 Hedy's mother was sent to Camp de Rivesaltes. (bbsradio.com)
  • Between August and September 1942, Hedy's parents and all other surviving family members were sent to the concentration camp Auschwitz. (bbsradio.com)
  • Schaleck, who had established her reputation as an artist in Vienna, returned to Czechoslovakia following the Anschluss (March 13, 1938) and lived there until her internment in February 1942. (jwa.org)
  • Again, the date of the visit is in dispute: In his evidence before us, the Accused moves this visit to the winter of 1941-1942 (Session 87, Vol. IV, p. xxxx22). (nizkor.org)
  • Toward the end 1942 Moishe returns to Sighet. (timetoast.com)
  • But in 1942 these last escape routes disappeared at the very time when the Germans began to deport Jews from western Europe to the Nazi killing centers in the east. (ushmm.org)
  • Deportations resumed at the beginning of the summer of 1942, affecting 4,200 Jews from Chernovtsy and 450 from Dorohoi. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • A third series of deportations from Old Romania came in July 1942 affecting Jews who had evaded the forced labor decrees, as well as their families, Communist sympathizers, and Bessarabian Jews who had been in Old Romania and Transylvania during the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia in June 1940, and had asked to be repatriated to their homes. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • The Polish Foreign Ministry issued an important statement on the extermination of the Jews in December, 1942. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • Between March and May 1942, German security police killed about 6,280 persons, including virtually all of the camp's remaining Jews who were mostly women and children, using a mobile gas van sent from Berlin. (state.gov)
  • On 21 July 1942 the Nazis began the 'Gross-Aktion Warsaw', the operation of mass-deportation of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka death camp, 80 km north-east. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • At Birkenau, unlike Auschwitz, Jews were permitted in the orchestra in 1942 in the men's camp. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • In 1939 approximately 14,000 Jews lived in Rzeszow. (ushmm.org)
  • German troops occupied the city on September 10, 1939 and immediately began repressive actions against the Jews. (ushmm.org)
  • Joseph Zwi on January 30, 1883, who was the eighth after Alexander (1872 1925, Emanuel (1874 1827), Simson (1975 1941), Bertha (Bella) (1876 1960), Ephraim (1879 1936), Sara (1880 1928) and Moses (1881 1939). (stolpersteine-hamburg.de)
  • Their failure to return to the United States in 1939, and the discovery that Stein translated and wrote an introduction to a book of speeches by Marshal Pétain, has raised questions about her politics. (jacket2.org)
  • Markus Nesselrodt is a Phd Student at the Zentrum Jüdische Studien focusing on the Experience of Polish Jews in the Soviet Union 1939-1948. (lithuaniatribune.com)
  • Sensing that conditions in Europe were worsening for Jews, his girlfriend's family left the Netherlands for the United States in 1939. (ushmm.org)
  • She discusses the disproportionate representation of Polish Jews in communist armies, refers to the "Jewish lobby at Versailles," and takes pains to recount how Jewish refugees in eastern Poland in 1939 welcomed the Red Army, much to the anger of other Poles. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • In 1940, Wolf was interned in an alien detention camp in Huyton, near Liverpool, England. (wikipedia.org)
  • Later in 1940, Wolf emigrated to the United States-the same period that 300,000 Jews emigrated to the U.S. from Germany. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hedy's parents and other family members were deported on October 22, 1940 to Camp de Gurs, a concentration camp in what was then Vichy France. (bbsradio.com)
  • She was one of the Jews who were torn without warning from their homes in Baden and Pfalz in Germany and in October 1940 sent to various French camps. (jwa.org)
  • 4. The initial steps leading to the present policy of extermination of the Jews were taken already in October, 1940, when the German authorities established the Warsaw ghetto. (mai68.org)
  • At that time all the Jewish inhabitants of the Capital were ordered to move into the Jewish quarter assigned to them not later than November 1st, 1940, while all the non-Jews domiciled within the new boundaries of what was to become the ghetto were ordered to move out of that quarter : The Jews were allowed to take only personal effects with them, while all their remaining property was confiscated. (mai68.org)
  • 1940-41: Benno's girlfriend returned to the Netherlands , and they were married in October 1940. (ushmm.org)
  • 1940-44: In 1941, hearing that the Germans were seizing people for work details, Henia escaped to a nearby village. (ushmm.org)
  • On December 16, 1941, the government dissolved the Federation of the Unions of the Jewish Communities. (nizkor.com)
  • Hedy speaks about what it means to be Jewish in America and support Palestine, while Jews in the USA are taught that Israel is an ally of the United States while it practices apartheid against the Palestinians. (bbsradio.com)
  • Jewish males over the age of 16 placed into "Schutzhaft," or "protective custody," in concentration camps throughout Germany. (bbsradio.com)
  • The new methods of mass slaughter applied during the last few months confirm the fact that the German authorities aim with systematic deliberation at the total extermination of the Jewish population of Poland and of the many thousands of Jews whom the German authorities have departed to Poland from Western and Central European countries and from the German Reich itself. (mai68.org)
  • She and all other Jewish children were forced out of public schools and were not allowed to enjoy the public parks and swimming pool. (holocaustcenter.org)
  • Anatol Wertheim was the head of a division in the Jewish family camp created by Shalom Zorin. (jewishgen.org)
  • Most of these Soviet Jews could speak Yiddish and did not deny their Jewish origin. (jewishgen.org)
  • But to be a Jew was only an origin for most of them, without connection to Jewish culture, traditions, and political, National aspirations. (jewishgen.org)
  • The group kept returning to that thought as the investigation made it clearer and clearer: The person they concluded had informed the Nazis about Anne and the others hiding in the Amsterdam annex was in fact Jewish - one of the most prominent members of the Dutch Jewish community at the time. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The years-long investigation points the finger at Arnold van den Bergh, a notary before the war and, during the Nazi occupation, a member of the Jewish Council, a body mandated by the Nazis to govern various aspects of Jewish life - including making decisions about who would be deported to camps in the east. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • His educational path that began with local Jewish public school and continued at the highschool in Bruchsal exemplifies the increasing endeavor of the community of German Jews to gain access to the European culture of the general environment. (stolpersteine-hamburg.de)
  • Shortly after, he accepted a call to the Jewish Teachers Seminar in Jerusalem, an institution founded by the Aid Society of the German Jews. (stolpersteine-hamburg.de)
  • After returning from Eretz Israel in 1907, he began working on his doctor s thesis about the Jewish mathematician Gersonides, earning his degree in Heidelberg in 1909. (stolpersteine-hamburg.de)
  • Until the final months of the war, Sachsenhausen, like most camps in the Reich, had a small Jewish population. (axishistory.com)
  • This possibility existed even after October 1941, when the Nazis banned Jewish emigration from territories they directly occupied. (ushmm.org)
  • Because they were not allowed to work, they had to depend on support from relatives and Jewish refugee organizations. (ushmm.org)
  • According to reports of the Nazi Einsatzkommandos ('action groups') which entered the area in July 1941 in the wake of the occupying troops, two-thirds of the local Jewish population had fled the area. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • The ancient Jewish community of Hebron, where the Cave of the Patriarchs-burial site of the biblical forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-is located, had already been pushed out by a 1929 Arab riot and prevented from returning by the British authorities. (jns.org)
  • In 1941, during the brief Nazi-backed coup led by Rashid Ali al-Gailani, an anti-Semitic mob was allowed to murder and rape members of Baghdad's Jewish community in a pogrom called the Farhud . (jns.org)
  • There were few alternatives to Palestine for Jewish survivors of the Nazi camps, or those with neither home nor family at the end of the war. (mondediplo.com)
  • Before 1948, the USSR directly or indirectly supported secret immigration operations organised by the Jewish Agency for Israel, sending Jews from eastern Europe, especially Romania and Bulgaria (66% of the Jews who arrived in Palestine between 1946 and 1948 came from there). (mondediplo.com)
  • The mass Soviet deportations from Lithuania affected all ethnic groups, including the Jewish Lithuanians who were deported to the Gulag in June of 1941. (lithuaniatribune.com)
  • In search of a better future, tens of thousands former exiles left Poland for the camps for Jewish Displaced Persons in occupied Germany. (lithuaniatribune.com)
  • In 1416, at the time of the papal election, a vigilance committee of Jewish notables from various parts of Italy met in Bologna to discuss the submission of an official letter to Pope Martin V to improve the condition of the Jews. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • In 1417, the bishop of Bologna compelled the Jews there to wear the Jewish badge and to limit their activities as loan bankers. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • At the same time, she takes pains both to note Polish suffering and to address the most sensitive question of Polish-Jewish relations: What did Poles do to help or injure Jews? (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • According to the World Jewish Congress, Serbia is currently home to between 1,400 and 2,800 Jews. (state.gov)
  • In the autumn of 1941, Nazi security police began rounding up Jewish women and children in Serbia and incarcerating them in the Staro Sajmiste detention camp. (state.gov)
  • Nazi authorities seized Jewish property beginning in May 1941, shortly after they invaded Yugoslavia. (state.gov)
  • As of April 2019, property returned to the Jewish communities under the 2006 law includes 8,719 square meters (93,850 square feet) of "objects" (buildings), 28 hectares (70 acres) of agricultural land, and 2.3 hectares (5.6 acres) of unbuilt land. (state.gov)
  • After the assassination of a low-level German bureaucrat in November 1938, a state-sponsored crackdown on Jews in Germany left much Jewish property in ruins, many dead, and approximately 30,000 Jews in concentration camps. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • Within its wall lived 395,000 Varsovians (residents of Warsaw) of Jewish descent, 50,000 people resettled from the western part of the Warsaw district, 3,000 from its eastern part as well as 4,000 Jews from Germany (all resettled in the early months of 1941). (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • A Jewish man selling his bread allowance in the street of the ghetto, summer 1941. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • A passionate antisemite, he became a key ally of Adolf Hitler in endorsing the annihilation of Europe's Jews, at the same time vetoing attempts to rescue Jews (particularly Jewish children) and trying to convince the Nazis to bomb Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. (danielpipes.org)
  • Al-Husseini's preaching of anti-Jewish hatred led to him making a speech on August 23, 1929, which generated riots that killed 133 Jews and wounded 339 more. (danielpipes.org)
  • This created huge problems for Jews because of their increasing suffering in Nazi Germany since 1933 and the Evian Conference's failure to find a resolution to the settlement of Jewish refugees. (danielpipes.org)
  • In the resultant pogrom, 600 Bagdadi Jews were killed, 911 Jewish houses were destroyed, and 586 Jewish businesses ransacked. (danielpipes.org)
  • Most Hungarian Jews live in the capital, Budapest, which has some 20 working synagogues and a plethora of other Jewish institutions, both religious and cultural. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Before the war, Hungary had a Jewish population of 450,000 and Budapest was home to over 200,000 Jews, who accounted for some 20% of the city's habitants. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Today, despite antisemitic rumblings, Hungary Jews have every facility to express their Jewish heritage and religious life. (rabbiscer.org)
  • The question of finding a "cleaner" and more efficient system for mass executions than shooting undoubtedly occupied the attention of the Accused as early as the end of the summer or the beginning of the autumn of 1941. (nizkor.org)
  • These cards were issued to all Jews following the Nazis occupation of Czechoslovakia. (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • As Mr. Sebbag had reminded them, the Nazis had tried to dehumanize the Jews. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • as a Jew, he was forced to divest himself of the business after the Nazis occupied the Netherlands. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • When the Nazis invaded Belgium , Belgian police arrested Siegfried as an "enemy alien" and transported him to southern France, where was held in the Les Milles internment camp. (ushmm.org)
  • on the east bank of the Dniester, two common graves contained the bodies of 3,500 Jews from Dubossary itself and 7,000 from the vicinity, killed in the town after being rounded up by the Nazis. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • in reprisal for the murder of a German, the Nazis were rounding up foreign Jews. (ushmm.org)
  • After a 1995 U.S. court ruling awarded Hugo Princz and 10 other Americans imprisoned by the Nazis in concentration camps some $2.1 million, Golden figured that she, too, would finally receive some compensation for her and her family's sufferings during World War II, when they endured the worst pogrom in Romania's history. (jweekly.com)
  • As part of the Princz settlement, the U.S. government established the Holocaust Claims Program, allowing American citizens who suffered at the hands of the Nazis to file for restitution. (jweekly.com)
  • The first contact was in London early in 1941, when the Soviet Union was still an ally of Nazi Germany. (mondediplo.com)
  • In April 1941, Nazi Germany established a military occupation administration in Serbia. (state.gov)
  • See "Rzeszow" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Volume 2 Part A. See Also https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070. (ushmm.org)
  • These raids, which usually took place at night, were being implemented by German soldiers and used to move Jews from the ghettos to concentration camps. (holocaustcenter.org)
  • Camps and ghettos in Transnistria. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • The status of the Jews in Transnistria was determined by a decree (Nov. 11, 1941) serving to follow up the Tighina Agreement, which expressly referred to the imprisonment of Jews in ghettos. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Kochanski describes ghettos, mass killings, and death camps, but her account is kaleidoscopic rather than linear and analytical, emphasizing suffering rather than the system of extermination. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • While many, particularly survivors, have grappled and still grapple with what truly can be said after such horrors, writing about the Holocaust is, nevertheless, a fact - indeed it was even before the end of the Second World War in ghettos, camps, among partisans, in hiding, and by refugees. (lu.se)
  • Of that group 60 escaped and the rest were transferred to the Plaszow concentration camp. (ushmm.org)
  • He spent two months in a concentration camp in Transnistria, where a large part of Romanian Jewry had been deported. (nizkor.com)
  • Finally, all Jews deported into labor or concentration camps. (bbsradio.com)
  • During the Holocaust, a number of women were able to create art while in concentration camps. (jwa.org)
  • It is now generally considered that while men and women shared the same fate and their daily existence in the internment and concentration camps was more or less similar, differences between the sexes did exist. (jwa.org)
  • They could be done to death immediately in the concentration camp, or also later, after they had been employed in one of the labour camps in the East. (nizkor.org)
  • The Germans murdered many of them in the killing centers and the concentration camps. (ushmm.org)
  • The Communist sympathizers, among them many socialists, were taken to a special concentration camp in Vapnyarka Transnistria. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • All 48,000 Jews in the Bogdanovka concentration camp were murdered by Ukrainian police and local German members of the SS and Sonderkommando R, on the initiative of Fleischer, the German adviser to the district commander. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • An estimated 197,464 prisoners passed through the Mauthausen concentration camp system between August 1938 and May 1945. (ushmm.org)
  • Benno was deported to the Schoorl labor camp in the Netherlands, and then to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria , where he perished at age 22. (ushmm.org)
  • She was denied compensation because she was not in a concentration camp or ghetto during the war. (jweekly.com)
  • Numerous critics have written that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration did not do enough to attempt to rescue millions of European Jews from Nazi concentration camps. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • The rest eventually wound up in concentration camps. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • It is not widely remembered, for instance, that Nazi concentration camps often resounded with gorgeous sounds, counterpoint to the ghastly sounds of unimaginable grief. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • But all sorts of music played a starring role in concentration camps from the beginning, and music was an important aspect of life in almost every camp. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • According to Dr. Guido Fackler, co-creator of the event series, "Music in Concentration Camps," who has done extensive research into the matter, the most common form was "singing on command. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • The Germans planned to use this Bureau as an instrument in the implementation of their plan to cleanse Romania of Jews, similar to the deportations and destruction that were taking place in Poland. (nizkor.com)
  • Ironically, there were even some Jews in Stolbtsy waiting for the Germans to arrive as if they would save them from the economic hardship that they experienced in the Soviet Union. (jewishgen.org)
  • The Germans entered Stolbtsy in June 22nd of 1941. (jewishgen.org)
  • The dilemma that we were faced with was that the Germans threatened that if any Jew escaped, the others would pay the consequences, and people felt great responsibility to others who would be left in the ghetto. (jewishgen.org)
  • This is also the first time Vladek heard the stories of how poorly Jews were treated by the Germans. (timetoast.com)
  • Germans start the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from Warsaw to a killing center. (timetoast.com)
  • An average daily food ration in 1941 for Jews in Warsaw was limited to 184 calories, compared to 699 calories allowed for the gentile Poles and 2,613 calories for the Germans. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • Between 1948 and 1951 more than 300,000 Jews from eastern Europe went to Israel - half of the total influx of migration during that period. (mondediplo.com)
  • By 21 September around 300,000 of the Warsaw ghetto residents had perished in the gas chambers at the camp. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • Those in Camp B were deported to Auschwitz in November 1943. (ushmm.org)
  • Lublin, there was no obligation to report to Oranienburg, nor to the Auschwitz camp, but only to Lublin and to Cracow, because this transport was going directly to extermination. (nizkor.org)
  • As we have stated elsewhere with regard to the deportees to Auschwitz, it was as persons condemned to death that they reached the gates of the camp. (nizkor.org)
  • At Auschwitz, in the winter of 1941, a prisoner orchestra was started, conducted by Franz Nierychlo, who was also a kitchen kapo. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • For me it was the first meeting with the Jews of Belarus, both from territories that used to be part of Poland and territories that belonged to the Soviet Union after 1920. (jewishgen.org)
  • In 1948 the Soviet Union voted against UN resolution 194 on the possible return of Palestinian refugees. (mondediplo.com)
  • From the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 until the end of the war, it became a vast killing ground. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • Periodically Faÿ reported to Stein on the safety of her collection (Stein did not return to Paris again until December 1944. (jacket2.org)
  • Saul was deported to various labor camps until 1944, when he arrived at Ebensee, a subcamp of Mauthausen . (ushmm.org)
  • D uring the German occupation, the residents of Rue Lhomond in Paris' 5th arrondissement noticed a black silhouette that, several times a week from 1941-1944, would glide on his bicycle through the deserted streets of the capital, a saddlebag full to bursting firmly fixed to the carrier. (clairval.com)
  • They soon expanded to a hundred members, which included professional Polish musicians but excluded Jews until 1944. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • In September 1943 the inmates of Camp A were transferred to the Szebrica labor camp, where most perished. (ushmm.org)
  • After a week or two of heavy fighting at the Kursk Salient in July 1943, the officers of Gorodinskii's mortar battalion were withdrawn from the front to serve as instructors at a training camp. (yadvashem.org)
  • The Gestapo was ordered to provide contingents of one thousand Jews each Monday and Thursday. (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • After these murders, the commander of the Security and Police and Gestapo in Serbia cabled to Berlin that Serbia was Judenfrei or "free of Jews. (state.gov)
  • As the French authorities in the south began rounding up the foreigners in their midst, Feuchtwanger found himself in a lightly guarded detention camp near Nîmes, fearing imminent transfer to the Gestapo. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The US was unwilling to take these refugees in, but feared the impact on US public opinion of newsreels showing boats of illegal immigrants en route to Palestine being turned back by British forces. (mondediplo.com)
  • This included the British refusal to allow a sizable number of Jews to emigrate to Palestine, then under British jurisdiction. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • In December 1941 a formal, closed ghetto was established. (ushmm.org)
  • During the German occupation, Alice was transported to the Łódź Ghetto on the 31 October 1941 (as marked on the lower right hand page). (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • 165. It is therefore clear that all the Jews dispatched by the Accused and his Section to the East for "posting for work," or under any other camouflage term, were dispatched to death by him knowingly, whether he sent them after the Wannsee Conference or in October 1941 to the Lodz Ghetto. (nizkor.org)
  • They started forcing Jews to work in Baranovich and Minsk, and they established the ghetto. (jewishgen.org)
  • Henia and her family weren't allowed to leave the ghetto on penalty of death. (ushmm.org)
  • A woman lying on the pavement in the Warsaw ghetto, starving to death, 1941. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • The ghetto reached its highest number of inhabitants in April 1941. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • During the first year and a half, thousands of Polish Jews, as well as some Romani people from smaller towns and the countryside, were brought into the Ghetto. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • Foodstuffs were smuggled often by children alone who crossed the Ghetto wall anyway possible in their hundreds sometimes several times a day, returning with goods that could weight as much as they did. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • In the summer of 1941, Willi Georg, a German Army signalman, visited the ghetto on his commanding officer's order. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • In all, more than 850,000 Jews were forced to flee Arab countries for Israel, followed by more than 70,000 Jews from Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. (jns.org)
  • By contrast, nearly 1 million Jews were expelled or forced to flee from Arab and Muslim countries beginning in 1948, and they were welcomed into tiny, impoverished Israel and granted citizenship. (gatestoneinstitute.org)
  • She has been honored by Christians and Jews for her efforts. (bj.org)
  • By the end of the 18th century, the first conflicts emerged between Christians and Jews. (rabbiscer.org)
  • In the spring of 1941, Hedy's father was sent to another camp in France, Camp les Milles. (bbsradio.com)
  • I am fascinated to learn how a religious Jew managed for 12 years to observe the basic tenets of Judaism while serving time in prison, hard labor camps and the Gulag. (jpost.com)
  • Pictured: Adolf Hitler meets with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, on November 28, 1941. (gatestoneinstitute.org)
  • And it makes no difference whether they were sent to an extermination camp or to a labour camp. (nizkor.org)
  • Globocnik's extermination camps, the system of killing by gas had already been used in Germany before then to put an end to the lives of mentally sick people (N/94, p. 15), and the order for this appears to have been issued from Hitler's office. (nizkor.org)
  • Some 80 percent of Hungarian Jews live in Budapest. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Hungarian Jews are especially well represented in the free professions, science and academia and in business. (rabbiscer.org)
  • In recent years, in response to the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Hungary, several hundred Hungarian Jews have left the country, many of whom have settled in nearby Vienna. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Many Hungarian Jews took part in the 1848/49 revolution, and their social and economic standing rose. (rabbiscer.org)
  • In 1867, Hungarian Jews were granted the same political and civil rights as Christians. (rabbiscer.org)
  • By the end of the Second World war, the young architect and businessman Raoul Wallenberg saved the lives of tens and thousands Hungarian Jews. (lu.se)
  • Some refugees, even some of the thousands still held in French internment camps, did manage to emigrate. (ushmm.org)
  • The discussions failed to reach a workable solution as the delegates refused to allow large numbers of Jews to emigrate to their countries. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • Due to an aberration of the war, inmates of the camp in Gurs could correspond with the outside world. (bbsradio.com)
  • Inmates were not allowed to correspond with the outside world. (bbsradio.com)
  • Men and women inmates in the camps were confronted with similar problems-being imprisoned for an unknown period of time, being cut off from one's familiar surroundings and one's previous way of life, losing one's sense of identity, living in crowded conditions with very little privacy, lack of food and appalling hygienic conditions. (jwa.org)
  • On the afternoon of Sunday, July 21, he took a walk by a swimming hole where inmates were allowed to bathe, debating whether to flee the camp or wait for exit papers that the French had promised. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Prior to World War II, the total number of Jews throughout the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was approximately 78,000, including 4,000 stateless Jews from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. (state.gov)
  • Reports of mass killings of Jews were being filed by many reputable reporters as well as by government officials in Europe, all of which made their way back to the U.S. State Department. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • The British visa that allowed Rolf Friedland to visit England for two weeks in 1938. (timesofisrael.com)
  • However, by 1938, after the German Anschluss or union with Austria, only 10 percent of the U.S. quota was filled, with only a handful of Jews among them. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • After the German takeover, Jews soon became subject to a number of discriminatory laws, similar to those in place in Nazi German y. (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • On April 3, 1941, he attempted a takeover of the Iraqi government with Nazi support. (danielpipes.org)
  • When Britain suppressed the takeover, al-Husseini blamed the failure of the Nazi takeover on the Jews. (danielpipes.org)
  • The 2006 law regulates the return of communal religious property of churches and other religious communities in the country confiscated after March 1945, thereby excluding properties taken during World War II. (state.gov)
  • More than 35,000 Jews lived in Kovno at the beginning of World War II. (bj.org)
  • In June 1941, Rolf joined the British Royal Pioneer Corps, which accepted recruits from enemy nations, among them many Austrian and German Jews. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Revocation of German citizenship for all Jews. (bbsradio.com)
  • They state that Jews are no longer considered German citizens. (timetoast.com)
  • They also resticted Jews from marrying Aryans and also restricted Jews from flying the German flag. (timetoast.com)
  • It must also be assumed that many local Jews were apprehended while escaping and were murdered by German troops or by Einsatzkommandos. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • According to a German source, a total of Romanian archival sources 146,000 Jews were deported to Transnistria. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • The truth was entirely different: Franz was financially supporting German fugitives, including some Jews. (clairval.com)
  • In response to insurgencies largely led by the Serb nationalist Chetnik movement, Hitler in 1941 ordered the shooting of 100 hostages for every ethnic German death in Serbia and the Banat region. (state.gov)
  • This planned German return of secrets who executed from both the German and specific demands in East-Central Europe is Symptoms of many protocols, short children, and protest human speeches. (krugerquarterhorses.com)
  • In the 18th century, German-speaking (Ashkenazi) Jews arrived in Hungary, primarily from Czech and German territories. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Men between the ages of sixteen and fifty were sent to labor camps, while their wives and children were sent to special settlements in eastern Poland. (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • In a message to Washington, embassy officials said that by the end of the year all able-bodied Jews were to be expelled from Germany and that a large number of Jews were being sent to forced-labor camps. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • and many of the victors and survivors retreated en masse into intellectual obscurity, attempting with mixed success to confront the war's cultural, social and spiritual aftermath. (therestisnoise.com)
  • Similar motifs can be seen in the drawings and watercolors produced by Emmy Falck-Ettlinger in the camp at Gurs in southern France. (jwa.org)
  • They were arrested by French police in Paris and sent to the Gurs internment camp where they lived amidst conditions of deprivation and disease. (ushmm.org)
  • In June 1934, the celebrated American Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein received an urgent summons to return to his native Lublin, Poland, where his mother lay at death's door. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • He was allowed to return to Romania only upon the intervention of Pope Pius XII, through the Papal Nuncio (the Vatican Ambassador), Andreas Cassulo. (nizkor.com)
  • Behind the scenes, Dr. Filderman remained an active and devoted representative of the Jews in Romania, even when he no longer occupied an official position. (nizkor.com)
  • As anti-Semitism began to spread across Romania, Golden remembers demonstrations and beatings on the streets, curfews and separate air raid shelters for Jews. (jweekly.com)
  • The detention camp was a high stress environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • 3. Most recent reports present a horrifying picture of the position to which the Jews in Poland have been reduced. (mai68.org)
  • According to the organizers of a recent Jerusalem conference marking the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Israel and Poland, the time has come for Jews to recognize the plain truth: Poland is Israel's best friend in the European Union. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • Initially, they were given temporary status and often were housed initially in refugee camps. (ushmm.org)
  • The Palestinians' rich Arab "brothers" would not grant them citizenship in their countries and instead dumped them into often squalid refugee camps - for which they blamed Israel. (gatestoneinstitute.org)
  • It did, however, hold public meetings and parades, and these gatherings became a target for protests by Communists and Jews. (stormfront.org)
  • Einsatzgruppen, "molbile killing units" murder approximately 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar which is located in the Ukraine. (timetoast.com)
  • Left unmentioned is that this new so-called nakba is a direct response to the October 7 Arab invasion and murder of 1,200 Jews in a single day, including babies beheaded and burned alive. (gatestoneinstitute.org)
  • The Arabs are also "forgetting" that the blockade was established because the Gazans were smuggling in vast quantities of weapons and ammunition with which to murder Jews. (gatestoneinstitute.org)
  • Songs and compositions which originated at that camp have been heard in America for decades. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • During the carnage of Kraziai Jews managed to rescue quite a few of their Lithuanian neighbors from the wrath of the Cossacks. (jewishgen.org)
  • her husband Berthold Walter tries to establish a business there without success and decides to return to Germany. (holocaustresearchproject.net)
  • His next challenge was to extend his two-week visa beyond the looming November 9 deadline, which would have condemned him to return to Germany. (timesofisrael.com)
  • After that January day, things began to get slowly worse for Jews and other minorities in Germany. (bbsradio.com)
  • Q. Do you recall, during the period of your work at the hospital in Lublin, when a particular transport of Jews arrived from Germany? (nizkor.org)
  • Of the 620 passengers who returned to continent, 532 were trapped when Germany conquered Western Europe. (ushmm.org)
  • When the St. Louis returned to Europe, the Seligmann family (Siegfried, Alma, and daughter Ursula), originally from Ronnenberg, near Hannover in Germany, settled in Brussels to await their US visas. (ushmm.org)
  • In the immediate post-war era, the West very much wanted to recruit West Germany into the anti-Soviet camp of the Cold War. (frontpagemag.com)
  • In 1946 the Soviets allowed more than 150,000 Polish Jews to go to the British and American occupied zones in Germany, where they entered camps for displaced people. (mondediplo.com)
  • After returning to Germany, Franz organized annual pilgrimages and trips to France. (clairval.com)
  • Hundreds of thousands more became Soviet prisoners, but many of them were released in 1941 and allowed to join forces with the British under the leadership of Władysław Anders. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • The orchestra marched with other prisoners to and from work, in good weather and bad, though eventually they were allowed indoors in rain and snow. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • British authorities interned some former St. Louis passengers on the Isle of Man and incarcerated others in camps in Canada and Australia. (ushmm.org)
  • During the summer of 1941, Nazi military and police authorities interned most Jews and Roma in five detention camps. (state.gov)
  • After the Allied occupation of Iran on October 8, 1941, and the new Persian government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi severed diplomatic relations with the Axis powers, al-Husseini was taken under Italian protection and smuggled through Turkey to Italy in an operation organized by Italian military intelligence. (danielpipes.org)
  • He enrolled in Queens College in New York City and also spent a summer at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee in 1941. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was not until the following year in the summer of 1941 that the war began to personally affect Mrs. Sorensen. (holocaustcenter.org)
  • A notable Bund feature were its summer camps, which were located on Bund-owned property. (stormfront.org)
  • I left Lithuania on May 5 or 6, 1941. (keidaner.com)
  • I returned to the hotel with the baby and a note from the doctor saying I should not be moved, because they wanted to repatriate me to Lithuania. (keidaner.com)
  • Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi gave a supposed history lesson about Israel's 1948 War of Independence during which, he claimed, Jews ethnically cleansed Palestinian Arabs from their land. (gatestoneinstitute.org)
  • Arab anger against the proposal resulted in riots against Jews breaking out in Jaffa on April 19, 1936. (danielpipes.org)
  • The very fact of Israel's existence was branded a "catastrophe"- nakba in Arabic-but not the displacement that affected both sides in the subsequent war, which included the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from what became the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. (jns.org)
  • Much of this information includes real-time reports from verified sources documenting the systematic elimination of Jews and other ethnic minorities in Europe. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • Pius V established a House of Catechumens in Bologna in 1568 and, in the following year, Bologna was among the towns of the papal states from which the Jews were banished. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Many of the Soviet Jews, amongst them also Soviet Jews from Minsk, reached the liberated regions, as the Soviets called it. (jewishgen.org)
  • Many of those in Belgium and France were taken to French internment camps. (ushmm.org)
  • It fetishizes Palestinian displacement and minimizes that of Jews. (jns.org)
  • Henia was then deported to the Bergen-Belsen camp. (ushmm.org)
  • Spending time in the South allowed Wolf to see a different side of the United States than he was familiar with from New York. (wikipedia.org)
  • In his Distinguished Lecture for the 1989 American Anthropological Association annual meeting, he warned that anthropologists are involved in 'continuously slaying paradigms, only to see them return to life, as if discovered for the first time. (wikipedia.org)
  • From then until 1949, Israel enjoyed the political, military and demographic support of Stalin's Russia, even though Stalin was at that time repressing Russian Jews, mostly because of a struggle for power at the top of the party-state. (mondediplo.com)
  • One of the consequences of this growing public sentiment was a decrease in the number of visas issued by the U.S. State Department at a time when the Jews of Europe were beginning to feel Hitler's anti-Semitic crackdown. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • By the time it ceased operations in December 1941, the Bund had an organized presence in 47 of the 48 states (the exception being Louisiana), with a combined 163 local chapters. (stormfront.org)
  • The 19th century was for many Jews a time of assimilation and emancipation. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Hundreds of thousands of Hungarian-speaking Jews lived in territories in the neighboring countries that had once been under Hungarian rule. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Originally the members of the Judenrat were the prominent and respected Jews of the town. (jewishgen.org)
  • After its occupation Transnistria became the destination for deported Romanian Jews. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Other groups sent to Transnistria wandered about the area of Mogilev, Skazinets, and Yampol for about two weeks, before the Romanians agreed to their return. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • At the end of the month large numbers of Jews were dispatched to the northern part of Transnistria. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • The report details conditions for Jews in the immediate aftermath of the invasion, and the rare opportunity by which the author and his wife were able to escape. (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • WITH THE Nazi invasion of Latvia in 1941, the Mendelevitch family had fled to Kazakhstan, returning to Latvia after the war. (jpost.com)
  • When Polish Jews were allowed to return home after the end of the war, they were devastated by the death of the families and the destruction of their former property. (lithuaniatribune.com)
  • She speculates that Polish aid to Jews must have been at a level that would warrant the Nazi order punishing assistance with death. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • The first Jews living in what is today Hungarian territory were inhabitants of the Roman province Pannonia and settled there in the 2nd century CE. (rabbiscer.org)