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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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