German forces enter Tunisia

The first transport of Jews from the Mechelen transit camp departed for Auschwitz on August 4 and arrived August 5. German authorities relied on Belgian records and police cooperation, while...

A transport of Jews from the NDH arrived at Auschwitz as part of the Croatian regime’s collaboration with Nazi Germany in deporting surviving Jews into German custody. Many Jews had already been...

German occupation authorities and Norwegian collaborators began arresting Jewish men. Women and children were arrested in a later operation in November; hundreds of Norwegian Jews were deported, while...

The first transport of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz arrived on this date. Deportations linked a ghetto used for propaganda and transit to the killing-center system.

British and US forces landed in Morocco and Algeria, then under Vichy authority. The invasion altered the North African war and prompted Germany to occupy Vichy France and send Axis forces into...

German authorities arrested prominent members of Tunis’s Jewish community, including community president Moïse Borgel, and took some as hostages. Jewish communal institutions were placed under...

Norwegian police arrested Jewish women and children in Oslo and other locations; most were deported aboard the ship Donau on November 26. The operation exposed how local state institutions facilitated...

The Polish underground Council to Aid Jews, known as Żegota, began operating with support from the Polish government-in-exile. Polish and Jewish activists coordinated shelter, forged documents, and...

SS officer Walter Rauff ordered Tunisian Jewish leaders to provide men for forced labor. Roughly 5,000 Jewish men were conscripted during the occupation and sent to labor and detention camps; this was...

The Allied governments issued a public declaration confirming Nazi Germany’s policy of exterminating Jews and pledging punishment of those responsible. The statement followed reports from resistance...