Only a handful of Jewish refugees were permitted to remain in Hong Kong after June 1940 – mainly doctors and engineers. Eighteen months later, the Japanese invaded the colony in December 1941. Several Jewish refugees died during the Japanese invasion including Herbert Samuel, a German Jew and statistician at CLP who fought to defend the […]
The pogrom on Pfaffenberger Weg in Solingen
Although individual actions against Jews were forbidden, the participants in a training evening of the NSDAP local group Solingen-Dorp let themselves be carried away to a pogrom in the night from July 12 to 13, 1941. After a subsequent drinking bout, some of the men, heavily intoxicated, moved on to the “Judenhaus” (Jewish house) at […]
Internment of the Jews still living in the Sieg district at the RAD camp Much
In 1941 the first assembly camps for Jews were set up. The Jewish people living in the Sieg district who did not have to do forced labor in companies important to the war were sent to the former Reich Labor Service (RAD) Camp Much until June 16, 1941. Excessive rent payments were demanded of the […]