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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.
Jews expelled from Naples. [46] 1515 Jews expelled from Dubrovnik. Exceptions are made for physicians and for short stays of merchants. [47] 1519 Jews expelled from Regensburg. 1526 Jews expelled from Pressburg (Bratislava) in the wake of the defeat of the Kingdom of Hungary by the Ottoman Empire. [48] 1551 All remaining Jews expelled from the ...
The fate of Jews in Rome and Italy fluctuated, with partial expulsions being carried out under the emperors Tiberius and Claudius. [10] [11] After the successive Jewish revolts of 66 and 132 CE, many Judean Jews were brought to Rome as slaves (the norm in the ancient world was for prisoners of war and inhabitants of defeated cities to be sold ...
The pre-World War II Jewish population of Europe is estimated to have been close to 9 million, [5] or 57% of the world's Jewish population. [6] Around 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust , which was followed by the emigration of much of the surviving population .
Knowing that the German officials in Rome were unanimously opposed to the roundup, Adolf Eichmann sent Theodore Dannecker, the SS captain responsible for the deportations of the Parisian Jews, to Rome. Having a very limited force compared to the 8,000 Roman Jews, Dannecker pressed Kappler to provide him with additional forces and a list of ...
Servicemen of the 20th Air Force stationed in Guam during World War II participate in a Rosh Hashanah service. Approximately 1.5 million Jews served in the regular Allied militaries during World War II. [10] Approximately 550,000 American Jews served in the various branches of the United States Armed Forces.
He expelled all other Jews from the city, under threat of lifelong slavery for non-compliance. [18] Josephus, in his Jewish Antiquities, [19] confirms that Tiberius ordered all Jews to be banished from Rome. Four thousand Jews were sent to Sardinia but more Jews, who were unwilling to become soldiers, were punished.
The post-war period for the Jewish community in Rome was marked by efforts to rebuild and recover from the devastation of World War II and the Holocaust. [2] This era saw significant challenges, including the restitution of property, the preservation of cultural heritage, and the re-establishment of community life.