1900–1939
Riots in the Free City
Oct. 1937·Dantzig
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Jewish shops ransacked, the community driven to emigration
In October 1937, the Free City of Danzig, under the administration of the League of Nations but governed by local National Socialists, experienced days of rioting against its Jewish community. Shops were ransacked, windows smashed, passersby attacked, and the synagogue was threatened while the Senate police stood by without intervening.
The community, long-established and prosperous, understood it had no future in the city and organized its own departure: it would sell its assets, negotiate emigration certificates, and send its members in convoys to Mandatory Palestine and America, before being compelled to surrender its great synagogue, which was demolished shortly afterward. The case of Danzig shows a community organizing its own extinction in order to save its living members.
- Period :
- 1900–1939
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Archives du haut-commissariat de la Société des Nations à Dantzig ; documents de la communauté juive de la Ville libre.