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1. Jewish "illegal" immigration, 1945-1947
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2. Jewish immigration to Israel, 1948-1950
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3. European Jewish population distribution, ca. 1950
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4. Jewish emigration from Germany, 1933-1940
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5. European Jewish population distribution, ca. 1933
Jews have lived in Europe for more than two thousand years. The American Jewish Yearbook placed ... the total Jewish population of Europe at about 9.5 million in 1933. This
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6. Jewish communities in central Europe
percent of all Jews in Germany lived in the 10 largest German cities. The largest Jewish population ... some 178,000, lived in the capital city, Vienna. The largest Jewish community in Czechoslovakia was in
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7. Jewish parachutists from Palestine, 1943-1945
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8. Major camps for Jewish displaced persons, 1945-1946
Following World War II, several hundred thousand Jewish survivors ... Allied-occupied Germany, Austria, and Italy for refugees waiting to leave Europe. Most Jewish DPs
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9. Jewish partisan activity in eastern Europe, 1942-1944
opposition to the Germans and their allies. Jewish partisans were especially active in the east, where they
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10. Jewish partisan activity in western Europe, 1942-1944
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11. Jewish armed resistance in ghettos and camps, 1941-1944
Between 1941 and 1943, underground resistance movements developed in about 100 Jewish ghettos in ... Still, Jews made the decision to resist. Further, under the most adverse conditions, Jewish prisoners
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12. Warsaw ghetto uprising, 1943
Jewish life and culture in Poland. Warsaw's prewar Jewish population of more than 350,000 constituted ... about 30 percent of the city's total population. The Warsaw Jewish community was the largest in both ... in Warsaw. All Jewish residents were ordered into the designated area, which was sealed off from the
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13. "Kristallnacht": nationwide pogrom
translated from German as the "Night of Broken Glass." It refers to the violent anti-Jewish pogrom of ... the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Hundreds of synagogues and Jewish institutions all over the ... windows of thousands of Jewish-owned stores were smashed and the wares within looted. Jewish cemeteries
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14. Ghettos in occupied Poland, 1939-1941
established. Ghettos were enclosed districts of a city in which the Germans forced the Jewish population to ... live under miserable conditions. Ghettos isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities both from the ... population as a whole and from neighboring Jewish communities. The Warsaw ghetto, established on October 12
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15. Voyage of the "St. Louis," May 13-June 17, 1939
The plight of German-Jewish refugees, persecuted at home and unwanted abroad, is illustrated by ... German ocean liner, left Germany with almost a thousand Jewish refugees on ... German forces occupied western Europe in 1940, many "St. Louis" passengers and other Jewish refugees who
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16. Major ghettos in occupied Europe
ghettos were enclosed districts of a city in which the Germans forced the Jewish population to live under ... miserable conditions. The Germans regarded the establishment of Jewish ghettos as a provisional measure to
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17. Resistance
Europe. Further, under the most adverse conditions, Jewish prisoners succeeded in initiating ... uprisings in some of the Nazi camps. Jewish partisan units operated in France
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18. The Voyage of the St. Louis
Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") pogrom in November, and the subsequent seizure of Jewish-owned property ... had caused a flood of visa applications. The plight of German-Jewish refugees, persecuted at home and
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19. Berlin environs, 1942
Berlin was a center of Jewish life in Germany and—as the capital of the Reich—also the center ... finalize what they referred to as the "final solution to the Jewish problem." At the conference, these
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20. Einsatzgruppen massacre sites in Ukraine and surrounding areas
Union, the Germans began to perpetrate mass shootings of Jewish men, women, and children in territory ... seized from Soviet forces. These murders were part of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” the
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21. The Warsaw Ghetto
Before World War II, Warsaw was a center of Jewish life and
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22. Rescue
the Danish resistance movement ferried almost all of Denmark’s Jewish
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23. The Lodz Ghetto
Lodz had the second largest Jewish population in prewar Poland
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24. The Aftermath of the Holocaust
liberation, most Jewish survivors were unable or unwilling to return to eastern Europe because of
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25. Einsatzgruppen massacres in eastern Europe (enlargement)
went they shot Jewish men, women, and children, without regard for age or gender. Einsatzgruppen killed