French police begin Vel d’Hiv roundup

Slovak authorities began systematic deportations by sending a transport of young Jewish women and girls from Poprad into German custody. Slovakia was then a nominally sovereign Axis partner; its...

The first transport of Slovak Jewish women arrived at Auschwitz. Most were young women and teenagers deported the previous day from Poprad by the Slovak state. Their arrival marks the start of mass...

A train carrying 1,112 Jews departed the Drancy transit camp for Auschwitz. French police and administrators helped operate the arrest and internment system, while German authorities directed...

A German ordinance required Jews aged six and older in the occupied zone to wear a yellow star beginning June 7. It marked Jewish people for public humiliation and facilitated exclusion and...

German occupation authorities deported the first group of Dutch Jews from Westerbork to Auschwitz. Dutch police and administrative bodies participated in the machinery of arrest and deportation; the...

German SS and police units, assisted by auxiliaries, began mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center. By September, about 265,000 Jews had been deported and murdered;...

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.