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After November 1938, Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria began reaching Shanghai in large numbers. The movement followed Kristallnacht and is not dated as a single landing day.
Henryk Ross, later an official photographer in the Łódź ghetto who also made a secret record of ghetto life, was born in Warsaw in 1910. The exact day is not confirmed.
On this day, November 28, 1919, Faye Schulman was born in Lenin. She later photographed Jewish partisan life in Eastern Europe.
On this day, July 2, 2016, Elie Wiesel, the author of Night and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died in New York at 87.
On this day, July 31, 1492, the Alhambra Decree’s deadline arrived. Jews in Spain had to leave or convert, or face death.
On this day, February 19, 2016, Samuel Willenberg, a survivor of Treblinka and of its 1943 revolt, died in Israel at 93.
On this day, August 11, 1944, German authorities executed Joop Westerweel at Vught for helping Jews escape Nazi deportation.
On April 29, 1945, American troops liberated the Dachau concentration camp, freeing approximately 32,000 prisoners after twelve years of Nazi imprisonment, forced labor, medical experimentation, and mass death.
