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26–28 August 1941
On 26–28 August 1941, SS and police units under Friedrich Jeckeln murdered 23,600 Jews near Kamianets-Podilskyi. More than half were deportees from Hungary.
Holocaust · Antisemitism · World War II
Europe
August 20, 1941
On this day, August 20, 1941, French police interned thousands of Jewish men arrested in Paris at Drancy, opening the camp that later became the main transit point for deportations from France.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
August 1, 1941
On this day, August 1, 1941, German authorities confined about 50,000 Jews in the Bialystok ghetto.
World War II · Holocaust · Antisemitism · Ghettos
Europe
August 1941
In August 1941, Mihai Antonescu ordered Jews in Romania to wear the yellow star. The order was revoked on 9 September 1941.
Holocaust · Antisemitism · World War II
Europe
July 1941
In late July 1941, German authorities established a ghetto in Minsk. About 80,000 Jews, including people from nearby towns, were crowded into the northwestern quarter.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
June 22, 1941
On this day, June 22, 1941, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa. More than three million German soldiers, with allied troops, attacked across a front from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
Holocaust · World War II · Antisemitism
Europe
May 15, 1941
On May 15, 1941, the Haganah national command ordered the Palmach formed as a countrywide combat reserve.
Israel · World War II · Zionism
Israel
May 14, 1941
On this day, May 14, 1941, French police arrested 3,710 foreign Jewish men in Paris who answered green-ticket summonses and sent them to camps in the Loiret.
April 6, 1941
On this day, April 6, 1941, German forces invaded Yugoslavia and Greece. Occupation and the destruction of Jewish communities followed; those later crimes are not dated here as a single day.
World War II · Holocaust · Antisemitism
Europe
February 25, 1941–February 26, 1941
On 25 and 26 February 1941, Amsterdam stopped work to protest the German roundup of Jews.
Holocaust · Antisemitism · World War II
Europe
21–23 January 1941
On 21–23 January 1941, during the Legionary rebellion against Ion Antonescu, Iron Guard members murdered more than 120 Jews in Bucharest.
Holocaust · Antisemitism · World War II
Europe
August 15, 1940
On this day, August 15, 1940, Adolf Eichmann’s office issued a Madagascar Project memorandum calling for the forced resettlement of millions of European Jews on the island.
Holocaust · Antisemitism · World War II
Europe
