At its peak in 1939, the world Jewish population stood at 16.6 million, of whom 449,000 lived in the land of Israel, at the time ruled by a British mandate introduced following the Ottoman defeat in Palestine in World War I. But by 1948, the year that Israel was established as an ind...
After the war, a commission was formed and later finds that no looted items could be identified in the Liechtenstein Collection, though a number are found to be of questionable origin. After the warthe Prince pays money to the Jewish former ownerswho survived the war. MONEY IN THE BANK: ...
WORLD Jewish CongressDEMOCRACYEMIGRATION & immigrationPOLITICAL participationAMERICAN Jewish identityINTERNATIONAL economic assistanceJEWISH refugeesDuring the 1930s, the leadership of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) tried to turn the question of European Jews into an international political issue that ...
Estimates put the death toll at 62 and 78 million,3 including 24 million from the Soviet Union,4 and 6 million Jews—60% of all the Jewish population in Europe.5 February 4: The Yalta Conference begins. February 13: Allies begin bombing Dresden. February 19: Battle of Iwo Jima begins....
In 1943, when the Italians signed an armistice with the Allies, German troops quickly marched into the Italian occupation zone and took control, fighting the Italians on many occasions.Of the 300,000 to 400,000 civilian casualties of war, 60,000 of whom were Jews. Anti-Jewish measures began...
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In the fall of 1939, my father, who was an officer in the short-lived Polish army, was captured by the Russians. He escaped, and made his way through Lithuania into Sweden. Lithuania had been an important center of Jewish intellectual, spiritual, and cultural life since the Middle Ages, ...
Beginning with the Earth's formation, through to the beginning of the modern day, fan favorites like ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient in Mesopotamia, Harappa, the Roman Empire, and Aksum make their debuts. Though they have a less direct impact on the world today, these historic cultures...
Did you know? As early as 1923, in his memoir and propaganda tract "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle), Adolf Hitler had predicted a general European war that would result in "the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany." Afterbecoming Chancellor of Germanyin 1933, Hitler swiftly consolidated pow...
In more than five years of World War II and the brutal German occupation, Poland lost 6 million citizens, or a sixth of its population, of which 3 million were Jewish. The country also suffered huge losses to its infrastructure, industry and agriculture. Poland’s previous ri...