- Judenfrei
Judenrein and Judenfrei ( _de. free of Jews) were Nazi terms to designate an area free of Jewish presence. [ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/wiesenthal_glossary.html#36 Holocaust Glossary: Terms, Places, and Personalities] ] The words bear slightly different connotations; while "Judenfrei" merely refers to "freeing" an area of all of its Jewish citizens, "Judenrein" (literally "clean of Jews") demands that any trace of Jewish blood be removed as an impurity. [ [http://www.shoaheducation.com/aryan.html Aryanization: Judenrein & Judenfrei] ]
ome of the locations declared Judenfrei
Establishments, villages, cities, and regions were declared Judenfrei after they were ethnically cleansed of Jews.
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Gelnhausen , Germany - reported Judenfrei on November 1, 1938 by propaganda newspaper "Kinzigwacht" after its synagogue was closed and remaining local Jews forced to leave the town. [ [http://www.gelnhausen.de/PDFDat/dauerausst_synagoge.pdf JUDAUSKomplett.cdr ] ]
* German-occupiedLuxembourg - reported Judenfrei by the press on October 17, 1941. [ [http://www.gouvernement.lu/salle_presse/actualite/2005/07/03asselborn_shoah/index.html Commémoration de la Shoah au Luxembourg ] ]
* German-occupiedEstonia – December, 1941 [ [http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/einsatzArep.htm Extract from Report by Einsatzgruppe A] ] . Reported as Judenfrei atWannsee Conference on January 20, 1942 [ [http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/text/x07/xr0707.html Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center ] ]
* German-occupiedBelgrade ,Serbia – August, 1942 [Final Solution (New York, 1985), p. 77; Walter Manoschek, "Serbien ist judenfrei".]
*Vienna - reported Judenfrei byAlois Brunner on October 9, 1942
*Berlin , Germany –July 16 ,1943 [ [http://www.inidia.de/judenfreies_berlin_19430616.htm 16. Juni 1943] ]Other uses
The term "judenfrei" was first used in
Germany in the 19th century.ee also
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Holocaust
*Ethnic Cleansing References
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