Since last year the population in the province has declined by 50%, that is from 5,000 to 2,500 souls. The Jewish population of Breslau has declined from 17,000 to 12-13,000 in the year 1938. This smaller decline in comparison with the province arises from the fact that some 2-3,000 of the people in Breslau have moved in from the province.

By 1938 the entire Polish community had been forced out of the city, along with two thirds of the Jews. The city gained a new and bloody chapter in its turbulent history during the events of World War II, when Breslau became the last stronghold of the Third Reich in …

03/02/2003 · Breslau Deportations by Peter W. Landé INTRODUCTION. Prior to the Nazi rise to power, Breslau had one of the largest Jewish communities in Germany, with 20,202 members in 1933. By 1939 this had dwindled to 10,309. Many "Polish" Jews were expelled to Poland in 1938 and deportations of the remaining Jews began in 1941 and 1942.

THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF. BRESLAU (1854-1938) Esther Seidel*. Scholars have largely examined and identified the historical and philosophical. forces prevalent in Germany during the nineteenth century1 which, after. having brought about a Wissenschaft des Judentums (a scholarly investigation. into Judaism at large in all its various ...