Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations following the pact with Germany and aggression against Finland. The Soviet Union only became a member of the League of Nations in 1934, a year after Germany left, and was expelled from the League on 14 December 1939 for aggression against Finland. In expelling the Soviet Union, the League breached its own regulations: only 7 out of 15 members of the Council voted for the expulsion, (among them Britain, France
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
As soon as an administrative regime was installed in the occupied provinces, the Jews were buffeted with decrees and ordinances meant, among other things, to oust them from economic life and dispossess them of their property. The process of expropriating and liquidating Jewish and Polish factories and businesses in the annexed areas began in September 1939, when this region was still under military rule. In January 1940, the Generalgouvernement regime issued an order placing under German custodianship any business whose
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
After the Germans occupied Lublin, the kehillah (the Jewish community council) was left intact and almost unchanged. Its sphere of activity was expanded to meet the Germans’ demands and the Jewish population’s new needs. The kehillah now had to deliver quotas of people for forced labor; hand over valuables, furniture, and other household items; cope with economic strictures imposed on individual Jews and the entire community; and make welfare arrangements for refugees and the needy, to name only a few
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