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Pages in category "Jewish communists" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Yakov Agarunov;
Until the Holocaust, Jews were a significant part of the population of Eastern Europe. Outside Poland , the largest population was in the European part of the USSR , especially Ukraine (1.5 million in the 1930s), but major populations also existed in Hungary , Romania , and Czechoslovakia .
The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germany came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards.
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In the cities of the occupied territory, Jewish ghettos were created, where the Nazis drove the entire Jewish population of the city and its environs under threat of death. The largest ghettos in the USSR were the Lvov and Minsk ghettos. Later, the ghetto population was exterminated or taken to death camps. [68] Deportation of Jews from Greece.
The Jewish communities of the cities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms became the center of Jewish life during medieval times. "This was a golden age as area bishops protected the Jews, resulting in increased trade and prosperity." [5] The First Crusade began an era of persecution of Jews in Germany. [6]
The most notable Jewish partisan group is the Bielski partisans, whom the movie Defiance portrays, and the Parczew partisans in the forests near Lublin. Hundreds of Jews escaped the ghettoes and joined the Partisan resistance groups. [2] Some Jews liberated from the Gęsiówka concentration camp participated in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
In the wake of Russian pogroms there was increased Jewish immigration to Ireland, mostly from Eastern Europe (in particular Lithuania). By 1901, there were an estimated 3,771 Jews in Ireland, over half of them (2,200) residing in Dublin. By 1904, the total Jewish population was an estimated 4,800 people.