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The first ghetto of World War II was established on 8 October 1939 at Piotrków Trybunalski (38 days after the invasion), [10] with the Tuliszków ghetto established in December 1939. The first large metropolitan ghetto known as the Łódź Ghetto (Litzmannstadt) followed them in April 1940, and the Warsaw Ghetto in October. Most Jewish ghettos ...
Mattapan bus loop. Mattapan (/ ˈ m æ t ə p æ n /) is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Mattapan is the original Native American name for the Dorchester area, [1] possibly meaning "a place to sit." [2] At the 2010 census, it had a population of 36,480, with the majority of its population immigrants.
"Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial. "World War I: Declarations of War from around the Globe". Law Library of Congress. "Timeline of the First World War on 1914-1918-Online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War". 1914-1918-Online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 is a seven-part encyclopedia series that explores the history of the concentration camps, ghettos, forced-labor camps, and other sites of detention, persecution, or state-sponsored murder run by Nazi Germany and other Axis powers in Europe and Africa.
The encyclopedia is based on the compilation of materials systematically collected from research, testimonies, documents, and historical information about more than 1,100 ghettos, mainly in Eastern Europe. One of the methodological problems in developing the encyclopedia was that there is no precise definition of a "ghetto" in practice.
A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure. [1] Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other areas of the city. Versions of such restricted areas have been found across the world, each with ...
Semyon Shveibish, an employee of the Jerusalem University, wrote that by the beginning of the war, 4,855 thousand Jews lived in the USSR (excluding refugees from the occupied part of Poland and from Romania), including 4,095 thousand in the territory that was occupied during the war. Of these, 1.2-1.4 million Jews were evacuated to the Soviet ...