Chronology of Jewish Persecution: 1941

1-22/23-41
First massacre of Jews in Rumania.

Feb/Apr-41
Deportation of 72,000 Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto.

2-22/23-41
Deportation of 400 Jewish hostages from Amsterdam to Mauthausen.

3-7-41
Induction of German Jews into forced labor.

4-6-41
Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.

5-14-41
Arrest of 3,600 Parisian Jews.

5-14-41
Rumania passes law condemning adult Jews to forced labor.

6-22-41
Germany attacks the Soviet Union.

June 1941
Vichy government revokes civil rights of French Jews in North Africa and decrees many restrictions against them.

June/July-41
Mass shootings of Jews in begin in Ponary Forest, the killing grounds near Vilna. By 1944, 70,000 to 100,000 perish there.

June/Aug-41
Numerous pogroms in occupied Russian territories.

7-2-41
Anti-racist riots in Lvov in which Ukrainian nationalists take part.

7-8-41
Introduction of the wearing of the Star of David into the Baltic countries.

7-31-41
G�ring assigns to Heydrich the task for "a complete solution of the Jewish question in the German sphere of influence in Europe." Beginning of the "Final Solution."

9-41
Jan�wska, a labor and extermination camp near Lvov in Ukraine opens.

9-1-41
Police order pertaining to the introduction of the Star of David in Germany, effective 9-19 for all Jews age six and older.

9-3-41
First gassing tests in Auschwitz.

9-27-41
Heydrich made "Protector of Bohemia and Moravia."

9-28/29-41
Mass murder of Jews at Babi Yar near Kiev (34,000 victims).

10-03-41
Forced labor for the Jews in the Reich.

10-10-41
Ghetto in Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia established.

10-12/13-41
Massacre of Jews at Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (11,000 victims).

10-14-41
Orders for deportation of German Jews from Germany as defined by its 1933 borders.

10-16-41
Start of deportation of the Jews from the Reich.

10-23-41
Prohibition against the emigration of Jews.

10-23-41
Massacre of Jews in Odessa (34,000 victims).

Oct/Nov-41
Einsatzgruppen mass killings of Jews all over Southern Russia.

10-28-41
Massacre of Jews in Kiev, Ukraine (34,000 victims).

11-6-41
Massacre of Jews in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania (15,000 victims).

11-25-41
Declaration pertaining to the collection of Jewish assets through deportations.

12-7-41
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

12-8-41
United States enters the war.

12-8-41
Chelmno extermination camp opened near Lodz, Poland; by April 1943 360,000 Jews had been murdered there.

Begin Dec-41
Massacre of Jews in Riga, Latvia; victims include the first transport of Jews from Germany, (27,000 victims).

12-30-41
Massacre of Jews in Simferopol in the Crimea (10,000 victims).

 
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