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10,000 Jews
- Slightly more than 10,000 Jews lived in the Free City of Danzig.
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The return of Danzig became a central feature of Adolf Hitler's foreign policy. This footage shows pro-German forces besieging a Polish garrison in Danzig's main post office. Germany annexed Danzig after the defeat of Poland in September 1939.
In early 1939 about 3,500 Jews, most of them Danzig citizens, were still living in the city. In March 1939 the first transport to Palestine departed [12] and by September 1939 barely 1,700, mostly elderly, Jews remained.
In 1939, the population of the Free City of Danzig was 400,000, of whom 17,000 were Polish and 3,000 were Jewish, with 380,000 being German. [ 17 ] The beginning of the crisis
Danzig became a centre of Polish and Russian Jewish emigration to North America. Between 1920 and 1925 60,000 Jews emigrated via Danzig to the US and Canada. At the same time, between 1923 and 1929, Danzig's own Jewish population increased from roughly 7,000 to 10,500. [77]
164 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES In 1939 there were still 24 German cities with more than 1,000 Jew-ish inhabitants. A glance at the figure in the Table below will show how the relative number of Jews by religion to Jews by descent varied from city to city. GERMAN CITIES WITH MORE THAN 1,000 JEWS IN 1939 Jews by Jew by Percentage
The Second World War began as German battleships bombarded the Polish munitions depot on the Westerplatte on September 1, 1939. Danzig enthusiastically joined Germany, and life generally went on as usual, with the city and many of its inhabitants playing their quiet roles in Nazi crimes.
In August 1939 there were still some fifteen hundred Jews in Gdańsk. About half of them managed to leave for the free world, several hundred others perished in ghettos and Nazi camps. Only a few survived in place.
