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Jews

  • 25 Apr 1985

    Germany banned the denial of Nazi genocide against Jewish people during the Holocaust.

  • 9 May 1979

    Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed.

  • 24 Sep 1950

    Almost 50,000 Jews were transported to Israel, known as Operation Magic Carpet.

  • 23 Feb 1947

    US General Eisenhower bid to raise $170 million in aid to help European Jews.

  • 14 Apr 1944

    5,200 Jews from Athens arrived at Auschwitz.

  • 19 Apr 1943

    The Warsaw Uprising involved Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resisting Nazi Germany during WWII.

  • 13 Mar 1943

    German troops liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

  • 27 Feb 1943

    Non-violent protests in Berlin prevent the deportation of 2000 jews.

  • 22 Jul 1942

    300,000 Jews from a ghetto in Warsaw were deported and executed by Nazi rule.

  • 20 Jan 1942

    Nazi officials meet to organize the extermination of Jews.

  • 12 Nov 1941

    Adolf Hitler declared the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.

  • 15 Oct 1941

    Hitler declared that all of Germany's Jews must be relocated, and Polish Jews found outside of their ghettos would be shot on sight.

  • 29 Sep 1941

    Babi Yar massacre begins.

  • 1 Sep 1941

    Jews in Germany over six years old were forced to wear the yellow star of David.

  • 9 Nov 1938

    Nazis launch Kristallnacht.

  • 28 Oct 1938

    Germany expels Polish Jews.

  • 2 Nov 1917

    Balfour Declaration letter written.

  • 11 Apr 1909

    Sixty-six Jewish families founded the City of Tel Aviv.

  • 22 May 1799

    Napoleon stated his support of re-establishing Jerusalem for Jews.

  • 26 Jan 1531

    Thirty thousand lives were lost after a major earthquake shook Lisbon.

  • 10 Apr 1516

    The world's first Jewish ghetto was established in Venice, Italy.

  • 17 Sep 1394

    King Charles VI of France suddenly declared that no Jew may live under his rule, following complaints from Christians in France.

  • 21 Mar 1349

    Between 100 and 3000 Jews were killed in riots in The Erfurt Massacre in the town of Erfurt, Germany.

  • 14 Feb 1349

    Hundreds of Jews in Strasbourg, France, were publicly burnt to death.

  • 9 Jan 1349

    During the Black Death persecutions, 700 Jews were burned alive in their own homes in Basel, Netherlands.

  • 6 Jul 1348

    Pope Clement VI issued two papal bulls stating that Jews were not to blame for the Black Death.

  • 18 Jul 1290

    King Edward I of England decreed that all Jews must leave the country by November.

  • 17 Nov 1278

    All of London's Jews (approx. 680) were accused and arrested for coin clipping and counterfeiting.

  • 19 Aug 1263

    All local Jews had to submit their books through King James I to be investigated.

  • 1 Nov 1210

    King John of England taxed all of England's Jews for 66,000 Francs and imprisoned those who couldn't pay.

  • 18 May 1096

    The Worms massacre began.