Jewish History

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5
January
1942

Liquidation of Kharkiv Ghetto

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
11
December
1941

Adolf Hitler Declares War on the United States

Europe
USA
Antisemitism
WWII
Holocaust
American Jews
European Jews
8
December
1941

Nazis and Lithuanian Collaborators Carry out Second Day of Mass Murders Against Jews in Riga, Latvia

Europe
Antisemitism
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
22
October
1941

Romanian Collaborators Bomb Their Own Military Headquarters as Excuse to Murder More Jews

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
15
October
1941

Nazis Begin Operation Reinhard

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
8
August
1941

Romanian Jews Forced to Wear Yellow Stars

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
29
September
1941

Nazis and Their Collaborators Murder Over 33,000 Jews at Babi Yar

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
27
August
1941

Kamianets-Podilskyi Massacre

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
6
September
1941

Nazis Establish Vilna Ghetto

Europe
Antisemitism
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
20
August
1941

Drancy Internment Camp Established in France

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
8
August
1941

Romanian Jews were Forced to Wear the Yellow Stars

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
Antisemitism
1
August
1941

Bialystok Ghetto Established

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
Ghettos
Antisemitism
22
June
1941

Operation Barbarossa Begins

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Wars
Antisemitism
14
May
1941

3,600 Jews are arrested in the "Green Ticket Roundup"

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WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
28
July
1941

Nazis Establish Minsk Ghetto

Europe
Antisemitism
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
15
May
1941

The Palmach is Established

Israel
Middle East
Israel
Zionism
Wars
21
January
1941

Bucharest Pogrom

Europe
Antisemitism
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
6
April
1941

The Nazis Invade Yugoslavia and Greece

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Wars
Antisemitism
1
July
1940

Nazis Establish Będzin Ghetto

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
30
April
1940

Nazis Seal Łódź Ghetto

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
12
March
1940

Max Bodenheimer Passes Away

Israel
Middle East
Israel
Zionism
Jews in Politics
15
August
1940

Eichmann Proposes The Madagascar Plan

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
25
February
1940

Dutch Armed Forces Surrender to the Germans

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
6
July
1939

Evian Conference Begins

Europe
Antisemitism
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Wars
8
February
1940

Łodź Ghetto is Established

Europe
WWII
Holocaust
European Jews
Antisemitism
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