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Jewish Ghettos Overview


Jewish Ghettos Overview

The term “ghetto” originated from the name of the Jewish quarter in Venice, established in 1516, in which the Venetian authorities compelled the city’s Jews to live. Various authorities, ranging from local municipal authorities to the Austrian Emperor Charles V, ordered the creation of other ghettos for Jews in Frankfurt, Rome, Prague, and [...]

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Prewar German Laws Against The Jews Timeline


Prewar German Laws Against The Jews Time-line

Antisemitism and the persecution of Jews represented a central tenet of Nazi ideology. In their 25-point Party Program, published in 1920, Nazi party members publicly declared their intention to segregate Jews from “Aryan” society and to abrogate Jews’ political, legal, and civil rights.

Nazi leaders began to make good on [...]

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Holocaust 1944 Key Dates


Holocaust 1944 Key Dates

January 22
U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9417, creating the War Refugee Board. Roosevelt instructs the War Refugee Board to take measures to rescue victims of enemy oppression in imminent danger of death. The activities of the War Refugee Board contribute to saving tens of thousands of Jews from [...]

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Holocaust 1942 Key Dates


Holocaust 1942 Key Dates

January 7
SS authorities established the civilian prisoner camp Stutthof, near Danzig (Gdansk) on September 2, 1939. On January 7, 1942, the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps redesignates Stutthof as a concentration camp.

January 16
German authorities begin the deportation of Jews and Roma (Gypsies) from the Lodz ghetto to Chelmno. Between January 1942 and March [...]

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Warsaw Ghetto. Deportation To and From Ghetto


Deportation To and From Warsaw Ghetto

DEPORTATIONS TO THE WARSAW GHETTO

Between January and March 1941, Jews from smaller communities to the west of Warsaw were deported to the Warsaw ghetto. Between April and July 1942, Jews from the nearby towns east of Warsaw, from Germany, and from German-occupied areas of western Poland were deported there. The [...]

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Third Reich Originial Pictures from Yad Vashem


Many original pictures taken from the web (most of from Yad Vashem)about Crystal Night,Dachau,Bergen Belsen,Auschwitz,Warsaw Ghetto,Poland,Slovakia,Hungary,Paris(exh ibition of French children deported 11400),Lodz,Kovno,Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels.

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