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June 1951
Oswald Pohl, head of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office, was hanged at Landsberg Prison in June 1951. Reports assign that one nighttime execution to 7 June or to 8 June.
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Europe
July 5, 1950
On this day, July 5, 1950, the Knesset passed the Law of Return, stating that every Jew has the right to come to Israel as an oleh.
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Israel
May 14, 1948
On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion read the Declaration of Independence at the Tel Aviv Museum, eight hours before the British Mandate ended.
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Israel
c. July 17, 1947
Soviet authorities later said Raoul Wallenberg died in Moscow’s Lubyanka prison on July 17, 1947. His fate has never been independently established.
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Europe
July 11, 1947
On this day, July 11, 1947, the former President Warfield left Sète, France, carrying more than 4,500 Jewish displaced persons toward Mandatory Palestine.
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Europe
March 5, 1947
On this day, March 5, 1947, the United States opened the Justice Case in Nuremberg against German judges and prosecutors.
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North America
November 5, 1945
On this day, November 5, 1945, anti-Jewish riots broke out in Tripoli. Over three days, about 120 Jews were killed in the city and nearby towns.
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Africa
May 5, 1945
On this day, May 5, 1945, a U.S. Army reconnaissance unit reached Mauthausen. Larger Third Army units arrived in the following days.
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Europe
29–30 April 1945
Soviet forces liberated Ravensbrück on 29–30 April 1945. Remaining SS guards fled on the 29th; the Red Army vanguard arrived on the 30th.
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Europe
April 29, 1945
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.
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Europe
April 26, 1945
On this day, April 26, 1945, the SS began forcing prisoners from Dachau and its subcamps on death marches south toward the Alps, three days before U.S. troops reached the main camp.
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Europe
April 15, 1945
On this day, April 15, 1945, British troops entered Bergen-Belsen and found tens of thousands of prisoners, many dying of typhus and starvation.
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Europe
