1941

APRIL 6, 1941
German army invades Yugoslavia and Greece.

MAY 2, 1941
Anti-British revolt headed by Rashed Ali, and encouraged by Germany, in Iraq.

MAY 15, 1941
Rumania passes law condemning adult Jews to forced labor.

JUNE
Vichy Government revokes civil rights of French Jews in North Africa and decrees many restrictions against them.

JUNE 7-8, 1941
Paimach units from Palestine take part in Allied invasion in Syria.

JUNE 22, 1941
Germany attacks U.S.S.R.

JULY 2, 1941
Anti-racist riots in Lwow in which Ukrainian nationalists take part.

JULY 12, 1941
Military treaty signed between U.S.S.R. and Britain.

JULY 31, 1941
Heydrich appointed by Goering to carry out the Final Solution.

SEPTEMBER 28-29, 1941
Nearly 34,000 jews are murdered by "Einsatzgruppen", mobile killing squads, at Babi Yar near Kiev (Ukraine). OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1941
First group of German and Austrian Jews are deported to ghettos in eastern Europe.

OCTOBER 10, 1941
Establishment of Theresienstat Ghetto in Czechoslovakia.

OCTOBER 12, 1941
The Germans approach Moscow: partial evacuation of the city.

OCTOBER 23, 1941
Massacre of 19,000 Odessa Jews.

DECEMBER 1941
Formation of an underground Zionist Youth Movement in France (Mouvement de Jeunesse Sioniste). Armed underground organization established in the Minsk Ghetto: the first Jewish partisan group operates in the area.

DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

DECEMBER 8, 1941
Chelmno extermination camp opened near Lodz; by April 1943, 360,000 Jews had been murdered there.

DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.

DECEMBER 11, 1941
"Struma" sets sail from Rumania for Palestine: on 12th February 1942 it strikes a mine and sinks with all aboard.

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