It is an official day to honor the 6 million Jews who died at the hands of Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The bureau noted that in 1939, just before the Second World War, the Jewish population worldwide reached 16.6 million. After the world war, on the eve of...
See Sharon Gewirtz, “Anglo-Jewish Responses to Nazi Germany 1933–1939: The Anti-Nazi Boycott and the Board of Deputies of British Jews,” Journal of Contemporary History 26, no. 2 (April 1991): 255–76. Yfaat Weiß, “Projektionen vom ‘Weltjudentum’: Die Boykottbewebung der 1930...
Over one-and-a-half million Jews lived in the Eastern provinces of Poland occupied by the USSR in September 1939.1 In June鈥揓uly 1941 these territories were conquered by Nazi Germany. Almost the entire Jewish population residing in the area was annihilated in the Holocaust. It was, ...
Jews were0.75% of the German populationwhen Hitler became chancellor in 1933 (about the same share as Buddhists are in America today) and more than half fled the country before the war began in 1939. Any armed resistance in the run-up the war was met with overwhelming force and exploited ...
The Black-Death was a violent pestilence which ravaged Europe between 1348, and 1351, and is said to have carried off nearly half the population. A myth arose, especially in Germany, that the spread of the disease was due to a plot of the Jews to destroy Christians by poisoning the wells...
You know of my family background, that I am a first American in my family who were all from Germany, getting to the USA as refugees, Mom in 1936, Dad in 1939. The story I will use to start is not about them, but about a Jew from Vienna, Austria in 1939. I told it in 2001,...
his personal contact with its first rabbi, David Marks, and the parallel developments of the reform movement in Germany were all encouraging signs that the message of anti-rabbinism as articulated in The Old Paths was having a positive effect on a segment of Jews dissenting from orthodox belief...
Vierka Berkyov (25) described as "of Romani origin" - singer. Some Roma, such as those employed in the German postal service, were civil servants. Slichenko Olga Romanian Jewish Al Lewis: 1920-2006 American actor Best known as Grandpa Munster: Jerry Lewis: Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is ...
annexed all of Lithuania. When Nazi Germany broke the secret agreement and invaded the Soviet Union on Sunday, June 22, 1941, it took control of Lithuania, and established two Jewish ghettos in the city as part of its “final s...
Even though an estimated 50,000 Jewish converts to Christianity lived in Germany in 1933, the Nazis treated them as racial Jews. They also did so in other countries. For example, Chaim Kaplan, a distinguished principal of a Warsaw Hebrew school, took pleasure in 1939 in seeing that the Naz...