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Jewish children recuperate in St. Gallen, Switzerland, 11 February 1945. On 5 February 1945, after negotiations with Swiss politician Jean-Marie Musy, [52] Himmler released a transport of 1,200 Jews (mostly from Germany and Holland) [53] from Theresienstadt to neutral Switzerland.
It has come to symbolize the systematic extermination of approximately six million European Jews by Nazi Germany in occupied territories from 1933 to 1945. [4] The term can also be applied to mean the estimated five to seven million non-Jewish victims who were murdered by the Nazis in the same time period. [5]
The Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe. On 3,500 square metres (38,000 square feet) of floor space, the museum presents the history of the Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, with new focuses and new scenography.
Simcha Jacobovici was born on April 4, 1953, in Petah Tikva, Israel, to a Romanian–Jewish family.His parents were Holocaust survivors from Iași, Romania, who emigrated to then Mandatory Palestine in 1941. [7]
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.
Map shows the main fortress and the Small Fortress (right) on opposite sides of the Eger River. On 24 November 1941, the first trainload of deportees arrived at the Sudeten barracks in Theresienstadt; they were 342 young Jewish men whose task was to prepare the town for the arrival of thousands of other Jews beginning 30 November.