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across the continent to transport, or deport, Jews from their homes, primarily to eastern Europe. Once ... principal victims at Belzec were Jews from southern and southeastern Poland, but also Jews deported from the ... ,000 Jews deported from France, more than 65,000 were deported from Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and ... approximately 2,000 to Sobibor. The Germans deported over 100,000 Jews from the Netherlands, almost all from

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Deportations to and from the 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 ... auxiliaries, deported approximately 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka II extermination camp

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Behind Every Name a Story—Irene Safran: Deportation to Auschwitz

Jews. Nathan was one of the Jews taken from Terezin to Poland to help build Birkenau. I remember we ... , my home from May to November, 1944 when Mengele strode in to inspect the living conditions of the 800 ... annihilated in March of 1939. Our region was returned to Hungary from which it had been taken after World War

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German Invasion of Poland: Jewish Refugees, 1939

generally did not deport Hungarian Jews to German-occupied territory. After the German occupation of Hungary ... When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, hundreds of thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish ... contingency plans or took the time to prepare adequately for a long journey. After the partition of Poland ... -in-exile in London. Polish refugees in eastern Poland faced the prospect of a long exile from home

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Polish Jews in Lithuania: Escape to Japan

The German attack on Poland in September 1939 trapped nearly 3.5 million Jews in German- and Soviet ... refugees with only a Japanese visa to exit from Soviet territory. But most Lithuanian nationals did not ... the refugees in Tsuruga and accompanied them on the train to Kobe. Using funds largely from the Joint

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Major deportations to extermination camps, 1942-1944

as Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, and Great Britain. Jews from Germany and German-occupied Europe were ... deported by rail to the extermination camps in occupied Poland, where they were killed. The Germans ... were told they were to be taken to labor camps, but in reality, from 1942 onward, deportation for most

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German Jews during the Holocaust, 1939–1945

the first deportations of Jews from the Reich-albeit Jews from areas recently annexed by Germany-began ... ,000 Jews from Baden and the Saarpfalz in southwestern Germany to areas of unoccupied France in a second ... systematic deportations of Jews from Germany in October 1941, even before the SS and police established ... Germany's Reich Citizenship Law (November 1941), German Jews “deported to the East” suffered automatic

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Escape from German-Occupied Europe

Even before the beginning of World War II, many Jews sought to escape from countries under Nazi ... shooting of Jews in the Soviet Union and the deportation of European Jews to extermination camps, escape ... ships from docking, more than 16,000 Jews passed through Turkey en route to Palestine. In a tragic ... control. Between 1933 and 1939, more than 90,000 German and Austrian Jews fled to neighboring countries

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Raoul Wallenberg and the Rescue of Jews in Budapest

, but also to deport Hungarian Jews to German-occupied Poland. Shortly after the occupation, Hungarian ... Hungarians and the Germans had deported nearly 440,000 Jews from Hungary, almost all of them to the Auschwitz ... Congress prevented the deportation of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing ... intended to deport them as well in compliance with German requests. With authorization from the Swedish

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Introduction to the Holocaust

German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories, and from the ... policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews, whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to Germany ... meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that ... Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so

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Rescue of Danish Jews, fall 1943

Germany occupied Denmark in 1940. When the Germans decided to deport Jews from Denmark in August ... Germans seized about 500 Jews in Denmark and deported them to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Bohemia. The ... deportation to the killing centers in occupied Poland. ... ,000 Jews and close to 700 of their non-Jewish relatives to Sweden, which accepted the Danish refugees. The

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Jewish deportees from Magdeburg in the Warsaw ghetto

share the fate of local Jews. Later, many deportation transports from Germany went directly to the ... Beginning in 1941, the Germans deported Jews in Germany to the occupied eastern territories. At ... first, they deported thousands of Jews to ghettos in Poland and the Baltic states. Those deported would ... Nazis began mass deportations of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the nearby Treblinka extermination camp.

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Doll from the Krakow ghetto

-Jewish friends for safekeeping. Zofia was deported to a forced-labor camp for Jews near Krakow, to the ... Skarzysko-Kamienna camp (also in Poland), and then to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where ... Zofia Burowska (Chorowicz) donated this doll, which dates from the 1930s, to the United States

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Transcript for “Give Me Your Children”: Voices from the Lodz Ghetto

under Germany’s jurisdiction. Among them were the more than 233,000 Jews of Lodz, Poland’s second ... a Transitional Measure” From early February to late April 1940, the Germans herded some 100,000 Jews ... Jews deported from Lodz. No one can be certain of anything now. They are after Jews all over the Reich ... sent to other labor camps More than 77,000 Jews and 5,000 Roma (“Gypsies”) from the Lodz ghetto were

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Escape routes from German-occupied Europe, 1942

Throughout most of German-occupied Europe, the Germans sought to round up and deport Jews to ... killing centers in occupied Poland. Some Jews survived by hiding or escaping from German-controlled Europe ... states (such as Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey), and even to states allied with Germany (such as ... Jews managed to leave Black Sea ports in Bulgaria and Romania, seeking to reach safety in Palestine.

Oral History

Siegfried Halbreich

After Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Siegfried fled with a friend. They attempted to ... forced to work in the stone quarry. In October 1942, Siegfried was deported from Gross-Rosen to the ... among the first Polish Jews imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. Inmates were mistreated and made to carry out ... forced labor. After two years, Siegfried was deported to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where he was

Oral History

Siegfried Halbreich

After Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Siegfried fled with a friend. They attempted to ... forced to work in the stone quarry. In October 1942, Siegfried was deported from Gross-Rosen to the ... among the first Polish Jews imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. Inmates were mistreated and made to carry out ... forced labor. After two years, Siegfried was deported to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where he was

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Siegfried Halbreich

After Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Siegfried fled with a friend. They attempted to ... forced to work in the stone quarry. In October 1942, Siegfried was deported from Gross-Rosen to the ... among the first Polish Jews imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. Inmates were mistreated and made to carry out ... forced labor. After two years, Siegfried was deported to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where he was

Oral History

Siegfried Halbreich

After Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Siegfried fled with a friend. They attempted to ... forced to work in the stone quarry. In October 1942, Siegfried was deported from Gross-Rosen to the ... among the first Polish Jews imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. Inmates were mistreated and made to carry out ... forced labor. After two years, Siegfried was deported to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where he was

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Siegfried Halbreich

After Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Siegfried fled with a friend. They attempted to ... forced to work in the stone quarry. In October 1942, Siegfried was deported from Gross-Rosen to the ... among the first Polish Jews imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. Inmates were mistreated and made to carry out ... forced labor. After two years, Siegfried was deported to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where he was

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Rachel Saleschutz

her four sisters, their husbands and children were deported [from Rzeszow] to the Belzec extermination ... started writing weekly postcards to her brother in Palestine. When the cards arrived, immigrants from ... visa to emigrate to America, and after an engagement ceremony, Rachel parted from her new fiance. A ... week later, Germany invaded Poland. Rachel could not join her fiance, and no more postcards reached

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Fred Bachner

September Germany invaded Poland. We fled to the countryside but were overtaken by German forces who ordered ... only my father and brother were sent to Poland. Mother and I remained in Berlin until our emigration ... work detail. After working near the town for some time, I was deported to several camps, and eventually ... some Jews from Belgium and the Netherlands were hiding diamonds and gold in the soles of their shoes

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Israel Cendorf

constant danger of being deported. To support his family, Israel peddled wood from door to door. He ... and deported to Pithiviers, a transit camp of 2,000 Jews. There he helped organize the underground ... Germany, Israel moved to Paris. But the city was wracked by unemployment, and Jewish immigrants were in ... , set up cultural evenings and continued writing. He would go from shack to shack, reading his poems to

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Kathe Ert Reichstein

same year, Kaethe and Samson were expelled "home" to Poland with 1,000 other Polish Jews from Hanover ... Kaethe was the fifth of nine children born to Jewish parents. After graduating from secondary ... Herbert as part of the U.S. immigration quota for Poland. Herbert sailed to America in October. Later that ... remain alone in the house. Ten minutes later, she was rounded up. Kaethe Reichstein was deported to the

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Yakob Braun

: When the Nazis expelled the Polish Jews from Germany in 1938, Yakob established a relief organization ... return home. 1940-44: Yakob hid in a small room with his wife and children as Germans brought Jews to the ... eventually they were deported to a ghetto in the nearby town of Piotrkow Trybunalski. When the men and women ... Hebrew and German in addition to Polish. Yakob met his bride Machla through a Jewish matchmaker, and

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