Note: This section is devoted specifically to non-Ashkenazi Jews — including Mizrahim, Sephardim, and others.
Although the vast majority of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis were Ashkenazim, perhaps hundreds of thousands were Sephardim and Mizrahim. Unfortunately, these victims have been largely overlooked by historians and Jewish communities in Israel and elsewhere. Learn more about Sephardi Jews during the Holocaust by clicking on the links below.
Quote: “The Jewish communities of Serbia and northern Greece, including the 50,000 Jews of Salonika, fell under direct German occupation in April 1941 and bore the full weight and intensity of Nazi repressive measures from dispossession, humiliation, and forced labor to hostage-taking, and finally deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and extermination in March-August 1943.”
Sources: Wikipedia (introduction), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (quotation)
Learn more about Sephardi Jews from Wikipedia. ►
Watch “From the Ottoman Empire to Auschwitz: Sephardic Jews and the Holocaust” [1:29:53]. ►
Read ” ‘A Hug From Afar’: A Sephardic Family’s Journey of Escape as World War II Looms” ►
Read “Sephardi Jews During the Holocaust” ►
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