February Strike protests persecution of Jews

Governor General Hans Frank ordered Jews aged ten and older in the General Government to wear white armbands with a blue Star of David. Forced identification marked people for segregation,...

The French-German armistice divided metropolitan France and left the Vichy government in control of colonial Algeria and the protectorates of Morocco and Tunisia. Nazi domination thus worked through...

The Vichy government promulgated a law defining Jews and excluding them from public service and several professions, without being directly ordered by Germany. Vichy officials used state...

Vichy annulled the 1870 Crémieux Decree, stripping most Algerian Jews of French citizenship and returning them to a subordinate legal status. This decision operated within French settler colonial rule...

German occupation authorities sealed the Warsaw ghetto, confining hundreds of thousands of Jews in a small area behind walls and fences. Starvation, disease, forced labor, and overcrowding were policy...

Following the Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Ustaša authorities proclaimed the German- and Italian-sponsored NDH. Its regime enacted racial laws and organized persecution and mass...

Operation Barbarossa began a war of conquest framed by Nazi leaders as a racial and anti-Bolshevik campaign. Einsatzgruppen, police units, military formations, Romanian forces, and local collaborators...

Romanian officials and military units, sometimes assisted by German soldiers, carried out a pogrom in Iași as Romania joined Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. At least 8,000 Jews were...

Romanian authorities forced survivors of the Iași pogrom onto death trains. Two trains departed on June 30 for Călărași and Podu Iloaiei; thousands died from thirst, heat, suffocation, and abuse...

Hermann Göring authorized Reinhard Heydrich to prepare a plan for a “total solution” to the so-called Jewish question in German-controlled Europe. The document records bureaucratic coordination at a...