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Europe – The number of Jews annihilated by the Nazis in each European countryThe white figures on black relate to the approximate number of Jews that perished in each European country betweenSeptember 1939 and May 1945. The total of just over 5,750,000 does not include thousands of infants murdered by theNazis in late 1941, before their births could be recorded. Thousands of people from the remoter villages in Poland wereadded to the deportation trains which left larger localities, without any record of their existence or of their fate.4
Holocaust Memorial Day 2008The Nazi Holocaust –A systematic programme to exterminate the Jews of Europe• The first concentration camp, Dachau, is established to hold the prisoners arrested after thearson attack on the Reichstag parliament building in February 1933.• May 1933 – Nazi students and militiamen light huge public bonfires in which they burn booksby Jews, communists and other ‘disruptive’ influences.• 1933 onwards – Jews are expelled from the army, the civil service, professional associations,sports and social clubs.• 1935 – The Nuremberg Laws strip Jews of citizenship and define them by racial criteria.• 35,000 Jewish war veterans who had won medals for bravery during WWI lose their privileges.• 9 November 1938 – Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass).• 275,000 men, women and children with disabilities die in Nazi euthanasia programmes.• 100,000 Jews die in labour camps between 1939 and 1940.• Following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, SS mobile murder squads known asEinsatzgruppen murder over 2,000,000 civilians, most of them Jews.• Some 500,000 Jews die in ghettos from starvation and disease.• 30,000 Jewish partisans fight the Nazis in Eastern Europe.• In the Warsaw Ghetto, more than 100,000 Jews die of starvation and disease, more than300,000 are deported to the death camps and 7,000 are killed in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprisingbetween 19 April and 16 May 1943.• 1,000,000 Jews, 70,000 Christian Poles, 23,000 Gypsies, 15,000 Soviet prisoners and thousandsof others die at Auschwitz.• 1,500,000 Jewish children were murdered by the Nazis as well as thousands of other childrenwhom they considered unfit to live.• Of the 300,000 Jews who go into hiding, pretend to be Aryans or acquire false identity papers,100,000 die after capture or betrayal.• Out of approximately ten million Jews living in Europe before 1939 only one third survived theHolocaust.5
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