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The countries with the greatest Jewish population losses since 1945 were primarily those in Central and Eastern Europe. The Holocaust of the Jewish people (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston): holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt"), also known as Ha-Shoah (Hebrew: השואה), or Churben (Yiddish: חורבן), as described in ...
Jewish refugees look out through the portholes of a ship while it is docked in the port city of Haifa. Iraqi Jews displaced 1951. The Exodus bringing in refugees. In the course of the operation "Magic Carpet" (1949–1950), most of the community of Yemenite Jews (called Teimanim, about 49,000) immigrated to Israel.
For example, Ashkenazi Jews share more common paternal lineages with other Jewish and Middle Eastern groups than with non-Jewish populations in areas where Jews lived in Eastern Europe, Germany and the French Rhine Valley. This is consistent with Jewish traditions which place most Jewish paternal origins in the region of the Middle East.
Sh'erit ha-Pletah (Hebrew: שארית הפליטה, romanized: Sh'erit ha-Pletah, meaning surviving remnant, and is a term from the Book of Ezra and 1 Chronicles (see Ezra 9:14; 1 Chr 4:43) is a Hebrew term for the more than 250,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors living in Displaced Persons (DP) camps after the end of the Holocaust and Second World War, and the organisations they created to act on ...
History of the Jewish People provides information on Brichah (Lublin, Poland), Brichah (Romania) and Brichah (Rivne, Ukraine) Displaced Jews in Europe Archived 2007-12-12 at the Wayback Machine Matt Rosenberg traces the Migration Following World War II in Europe - 1945-1951; The background to Bricha Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
The Newest Period. Chapter Six. The Nazis' Rise to Power in Germany and the Genocide of European Jewry during World War II. History of the Jewish People. Jerusalem: Aliya Library, pp. 541–560, p. 687. 3000 copies. 2001. ISBN 978-5-93273-050-8. Statistical data. The destruction of Jews in the USSR during the German occupation (1941-1944).
Aliyah Bet was the code-name for illegal immigration of the Jews of Europe to Mandatory Palestine after the passing of the 1939 White Paper, while the Holocaust was occurring, and the existence of numerous displaced people of Jewish ethnicity, was a major factor in the effective eventual establishment of the State of Israel, starting from the ...
By the end of the war, more than half of Jewish population of Europe had been murdered in the Holocaust. Poland, home of the largest Jewish community in Europe before the war, had over 90% of its Jewish population, or about 3,000,000 Jews, murdered by the Nazis.