The history of Jews in Europe spans a period of over two thousand years. European Jews, a Semitic religion who they converted to from missionaries originating from the Judeans of Judea in the Southern
Jews of Germany, 13th century
Pogrom of Strasbourg by Emile Schweitzer
Sultan Bayezid II sent Kemal Reis to save the Arabs and Sephardic Jews of Spain from the Spanish Inquisition in 1492, and granted them permission to settle in the Ottoman Empire
Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue, Amsterdam in 1695 by Romeyn de Hooghe
The Holocaust
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The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jew
History of the Jews in Europe
…population of Europe is estimated to have numbered close to nine million, or 57% of the world's Jewish population. Around six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, which was followed by the emigration of much of the surviving population. In 2010, the Jewish population of Europe was estimated to number approximately…
Jews arriving at Auschwitz II in German-occupied Poland, May 1944. Most were selected for execution in gas chambers.
View of the Pegnitz River (c. 1900) with the Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg, destroyed in 1938 during the November pogroms
1919 Austrian postcard showing a Jew stabbing a German Army soldier in the back
Territorial expansion of Germany from 1933 to 1941