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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.
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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.
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Europe
February 25, 1941–February 26, 1941
On 25 and 26 February 1941, Amsterdam stopped work to protest the German roundup of Jews.
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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.
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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.
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Europe
July 1940
In July 1940, German authorities announced a ghetto for Jews in Będzin. The quarter was not sealed at once. German forces liquidated it in August 1943.
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April 30, 1940
On this day, April 30, 1940, German authorities sealed the Łódź ghetto. About 160,000 Jews were already confined there.
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February 8, 1940
On this day, February 8, 1940, German authorities in Łódź ordered Jews into a ghetto. The ghetto was sealed on May 1.
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November 23, 1939
On this day, November 23, 1939, Hans Frank ordered Jews in the General Government over the age of ten to wear a white armband with a blue Star of David.
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October 8, 1939
On this day, October 8, 1939, German authorities ordered a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, the first ghetto in occupied Poland.
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September 1, 1939
On this day, September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Britain and France declared war on September 3.
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