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During the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II), 13,000 Jews were killed in action before May 1943. [89] Numerous other uprisings were quelled without impacting the pre-planned Nazi deportations actions. [90]
killed in the Warsaw Ghetto: Janusz Kusociński: 1907–1940: Polish: athlete;1932 Los Angeles men's athletics gold medalist Polish resistance movement in World War II: executed in Palmiry: Dawid Przepiórka: 1880–1940: Polish: chess player; chess Olympian Jewish: executed, Warsaw: Leon Sperling: 1900–1941: Polish: left wing on national ...
If we did not fight the Jews, they would destroy us. It's a life-and-death struggle between the Aryan race and the Jewish bacillus." [29] In November 1941, Goebbels published an article "The Jews are to blame" which returned to Hitler's prophecy of 1939 and stated that world Jewry was suffering a "gradual process of extermination". [26]
Perhaps the deadliest of these Holocaust-era pogroms was the Iași pogrom in Romania, in which as many as 14,000 Jews were killed by Romanian citizens, police, and military officials. By December 1941, Adolf Hitler decided to completely exterminate European Jews. [ 8 ]
A total of 13,000 Jews were killed, about half of them burnt alive or suffocated. Stroop reported 110 German casualties, including 17 killed. [4] The uprising was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II. The Jews knew that victory was impossible and survival unlikely.
Also referred to as the Shoah (in Hebrew), the Holocaust was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators. About 1.5 million of the victims were children. Two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe were murdered.
The Holocaust in Italy was the persecution, deportation, and murder of Jews between 1943 and 1945 in the Italian Social Republic, the part of the Kingdom of Italy occupied by Nazi Germany after the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943, during World War II.
Written on the game board, it says "If you manage to send off six Jews, you’ve won a clear victory!" [6] Juden Raus is a commercial boardgame rather than a Nazi propaganda effort, [8] and contains no Nazi symbolism. [9] The game was criticised by the SS journal Das Schwarze Korps, which believed the game trivialised antisemitic policies. [9]