invaded Poland in September 1939, occupation authorities began to establish ghettos to segregate Jews. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941...

addition, thousands of German and Austrian Jews were deported to the Riga Ghetto. The German army crossed the Soviet frontier in the early morning of...

Riga ghetto". Many transports were taken straight from the Riga railroad station to execution sites in the Rumbula and Biķernieki forests near Riga,...

The Budapest Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto set up in Budapest, Hungary, where Jews were forced to relocate by a decree of the Government of National Unity led...

The Holocaust in Poland was the ghettoization, robbery, deportation, and murder of Jews in occupied Poland, organized by Nazi Germany. Three million Polish...

Union and Michalsen was appointed head of the unit in Riga. Michalsen was present when the Riga Ghetto was partially cleared on 30 November 1941 and approximately...

vols. 1–2. Riga: Bikher far alemen, 1921, 1928. (Translation from Czech to Yiddish of Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války.) Max Brod. Di froy fun...

The Final Solution (German: die Endlösung, pronounced [diː ˈʔɛntˌløːzʊŋ] ) or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question (German: Endlösung der Judenfrage...

The Republic of Venice (Italian: Repubblica di Venezia; Venetian: Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was...

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26°0′47″E / 53.12972°N 26.01306°E / 53.12972; 26.01306 Baranavichy Ghetto was a ghetto created in August 1941 in Baranavichy, Belarus, with 8,000 to 12...

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20 July 1941, the creation of the Minsk Ghetto was pronounced. Within two years, it became the largest ghetto in the German-occupied Soviet Union, with...

survival in Birkenau. Marek Edelman, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, wrote The Ghetto Fights. Cordelia Edvardson wrote Burned Child Seeks the Fire...

historian, writer and activist (8 December 1941), prior to his murder in the Riga ghetto at the time of the Rumbula massacre "Going outside to fight it out."...

Sąjūdis, was a human chain spanning 600 kilometres (370 mi) across Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn, indicating the desire of the people of Lithuania, Latvia, and...

Belarus Łachwa Ghetto Minsk Ghetto Slutsk Affair Estonia Kalevi-Liiva Latvia Burning of the Riga synagogues Dünamünde Action Jelgava Pogulianski Rumbula...

Daugavpils and on 1902 in Riga. In the autumn of 1904, the Riga Committee of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party and the Riga Committee of the Bund...

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Ghetto for Jewish citizens of Grodno and rest of the region population. In 1942, after a year of severe persecution and planned starvation of ghetto inhabitants...

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Jews. The suppression of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising which erupted when the SS came to clear the Jewish ghetto and send all of the occupants to extermination...

Museum of Tolerance at the site of Kaiserwald Museum "Jews in Latvia" Riga ghetto and holocaust in Latvia museum Holocaust Exhibition at the Vilna Gaon...

Nazi Germany and its allies, as well as the administrative system of ghettoization and the hostility of various sections of the civilian population, few...

peace, and the war ended with a ceasefire on 18 October 1920. The Peace of Riga, signed on 18 March 1921, divided the disputed territories between Poland...

city of Tartu. A later decision provided for the construction of a Jewish ghetto near the town of Harku, but this was never built. A small concentration...

between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps, ghettos, and prisons, this definition includes, among others, people who lived...

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to early 1918 to June 1919.[citation needed] In 1921, following Peace of Riga, the town returned to Poland, and was part of Volhynian Voivodeship (Wołyń)...

muster at first but were later rejected were taken to Kinder KZ in Łódź Ghetto, where most of them eventually died. By January 1943, Himmler reported that...