This Month in Holocaust History

January 1919, The Educational Committee at the Mizrahi Conference, Staszow, Poland

January 1937, Chess player Israel Diner in Ostend, Belgium

January 5, 1939, A group of Jewish youth at a gathering in Riga, Latvia

January 1941, Torah scrolls that were desecrated as part of a pogrom that took place in Bucharest, Rumania

The Wannsee Villa, location of the Wannsee Conference, January 1942

Distribution of wooden clogs to deportees during the deportations from the Lodz Ghetto, January-February 1942

January 23, 1942, Hungarian policemen and soldiers standing around the bodies of murdered Jews in Novi-Sad, Yugoslavia

January 1943, Jewish forced laborers in the Minsk Ghetto

January 1943, Partisans in the Vinnitsa District, Ukraine

Deportation of Jews from Uhersky Brod, Czechoslovakia, to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in January and February 1943

January, 1943, Deportation of Jews from Ghetto One in Grodno, Poland

Righteous Among the Nations Raoul Wallenberg, who disappeared in January 1945

January 1945, The liberation of Auschwitz

January 1946, A Group of youngsters at the Deggendorf DP Camp, Germany