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This Month in Holocaust History

  • January 1919, The Educational Committee at the Mizrahi Conference, Staszow, Poland
  • January 1937, Chess player Israel Diner in Ostend, Belgium
  • January 5, 1939, A group of Jewish youth at a gathering in Riga, Latvia
  • January 1941, Torah scrolls that were desecrated as part of a pogrom that took place in Bucharest, Rumania
  • The Wannsee Villa, location of the Wannsee Conference, January 1942
  • Distribution of wooden clogs to deportees during the deportations from the Lodz Ghetto, January-February 1942
  • January 23, 1942, Hungarian policemen and soldiers standing around the bodies of murdered Jews in Novi-Sad, Yugoslavia
  • January 1943, Jewish forced laborers in the Minsk Ghetto
  • January 1943, Partisans in the Vinnitsa District, Ukraine
  • Deportation of Jews from Uhersky Brod, Czechoslovakia, to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in January and February 1943
  • January, 1943, Deportation of Jews from Ghetto One in Grodno, Poland
  • January 1944, Chaim Yellin, a Yiddish writer and one of the heads of the Communist Underground in the Kovno Ghetto
  • Righteous Among the Nations Raoul Wallenberg, who disappeared in January 1945
  • January 1945, The liberation of Auschwitz
  • January 1946, Yizkor Prayer Service in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, Munich DP Camp, Germany
  • January 1946, A Group of youngsters at the Deggendorf DP Camp, Germany

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