1997 Death Jurek Becker, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar', dies in Sieseby, Germany 1993 Death Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60 1979 Death Donny Hathaway, Chicago, Illinois, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33 1951 Death Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed 1944 Event Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker 1944 Event 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo 1943 Event Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed 1943 Event Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting 1943 Event Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction 1943 Death Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed 1943 Event Revolt in Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz 1943 Event Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto 1943 Event Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis 1943 Event Uprising in Warsaw ghetto 1942 Event Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews 1942 Event 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland 1942 Event Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto 1942 Event Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp 1942 Event Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed 1941 Event Nazi's directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade 1941 Event Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death 1941 Event Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto 1941 Event Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto 1941 Event Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto 1941 Event 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania 1940 Event Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw 1940 Event Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto 1940 Event Warsaw Ghetto forms 1940 Event Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland 1940 Event Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland 1939 Event Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated 1938 Death Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans, actor (Ghetto), dies at 81 1938 Birthday Philippe Wynne, U.S. soul singer, Detroit Spinners, Ghetto Child 1937 Birthday Jurek Becker, born in Lodz, Poland, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar' 1931 Birthday "Papa" Dee Allen, born in Wilmington, Delaware, percussionist, War-World is a Ghetto 1926 Death Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies 1914 Birthday Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto 1898 Event Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam 1871 Birthday Louis de Vries, Dutch actor, Ghetto 1864 Birthday Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist, Children of Ghetto 1843 Event Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy 1751 Event Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto 1614 Event Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase and plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt 1516 Event 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice 1391 Event Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed
