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3 days ago · The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination ...
6 days ago · Each entry provides information on the town's Jewish inhabitants on the eve of German occupation, gives the dates of Jewish roundups and mass executions and estimates how many Jews from that community survived the war.
1 day ago · Vienna [9] [10] (German: Wien [viːn] ⓘ; Austro-Bavarian: Wean [veɐ̯n]) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. [3] [11] Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, [12] representing nearly one-third of the ...
4 days ago · More than 10,000 Jews were deported from Antwerp in 1942, the majority of them non-Belgian citizens and refugees from other countries in Europe. In Belgium, a total of 18,000 Jews were deported in 100 days in 1942, followed by 8,000 in the following years.
5 days ago · THEY WERE SO YOUNG. Memorial Day and the old folks come. And stand in the sun feeling sad and dumb. The boys in the ground—there are so many, They’re eighteen, nineteen, maybe twenty—. They just moved out of a boy’s bedroom. And went to war, now they lie in a tomb.
3 days ago · Established in the first half of the 15th century, the Old Jewish Cemetery served as the main burial ground for Prague‘s Jewish community for over 300 years. The earliest known tombstone belongs to the rabbi and poet Avigdor Kara, dating back to 1439. Over the centuries, it is estimated that approximately 100,000 people were laid to rest ...
4 days ago · Not only did the small number of surviving Jews have to live with the fear of deportation, but they also risked death or mutilation from one of the Allies’ many air raids over Germany. By the war’s end, all that remained of Hamburg’s once thriving Jewish community were 674 Jews.
