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Expulsions

Events tagged as an expulsion. The graph shows how many of those events fall in each year from 1300 onward. Where an expulsion is part of a parent expulsion that already has an expelled estimate, only the parent is counted here.

Time span: 1300 – 1967

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Expulsions counted here

  1. Ban on Jewish presence in Cyprus

    117 CE

    Cyprus

  2. Ban on Jews entering Jerusalem

    135 CE

    Jerusalem (Aelia Capitolina)

  3. Expulsion of the Jews from Alexandria under Cyril

    414 CE – 415 CE

    Alexandria

  4. Forced conversion of the Jews of Visigothic Spain under Sisebut

    c. 612 CE – 614 CE

    Visigothic Kingdom (Hispania)

  5. Expulsion of the Banu Qaynuqa from Medina

    624 CE

    Medina (Yathrib)

  6. Expulsion of the Banu Nadir from Medina

    625 CE

    Medina (Yathrib)

  7. Massacre and expulsion of Jews from Jerusalem under Heraclius

    629 CE – 630 CE

    Jerusalem and Galilee

  8. Expulsion of the Jews of Khaybar

    c. 640 CE

    Khaybar

  9. Expulsion of the Jews from Cordoba

    19 April 1013

    Córdoba

  10. Expulsion of the Jews from the French royal domain

    April 1182 – June 1182

    Royal domain of France

  11. Massacre of the Jews at Bury St Edmunds

    18 March 1190

    Bury St Edmunds

  12. Expulsion of the Jews from England

    18 July 1290 – 1 November 1290

    Kingdom of England

    3,000 – 16,000 0.2% – 1.6% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1170)

  13. Bern blood libel

    1293 – 1294

    Bern

  14. Expulsion of the Jews from France, 1306

    22 July 1306 – October 1306

    Kingdom of France

  15. Expulsion of the Jews from Hungary

    1360 – 1364

    Kingdom of Hungary

  16. Brussels host-desecration executions

    22 May 1370

    Brussels and Leuven

  17. Expulsion of the Jews from France, 1394

    17 September 1394

    Kingdom of France

  18. Vienna Gesera

    23 May 1420 – 12 March 1421

    Vienna and Lower Austria

  19. Expulsion of the Jews from Cologne

    August 1423 – October 1424

    Cologne

  20. Expulsion of the Jews from Augsburg

    8 July 1438 – 1440

    Augsburg

    150 – 300 0.013% – 0.03% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1300)

  21. Expulsion of the Jews from Mainz

    25 July 1438

    Mainz

  22. Expulsion of the Jews from Upper Bavaria

    1442

    Upper Bavaria

  23. Expulsion of the Jews from Lower Bavaria

    5 October 1450

    Lower Bavaria

  24. Expulsion of the Jews from Andalusia

    1483

    Andalusia (Córdoba

  25. Expulsion of the Jews from Vizcaya

    1486 – 1489

    Valmaseda (Balmaseda) and the Lordship of Vizcaya

  26. Expulsion of the Jews from Sicily and Sardinia

    March 1492 – January 1493

    Sicily and Sardinia

    37,000 2.8% – 4.6% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1490)

  27. Expulsion of the Jews from Spain

    31 March 1492 – 31 July 1492

    Crowns of Castile and Aragon

    165,000 13% – 21% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1490)

  28. Expulsion of the Jews from Styria, Carinthia and Wiener Neustadt

    9 March 1496 – 6 January 1497

    Styria, Carinthia and Wiener Neustadt

  29. Forced conversion of the Jews of Portugal

    December 1496 – October 1497

    Kingdom of Portugal

  30. Expulsion of the Jews from Navarre

    1498

    Kingdom of Navarre

  31. Expulsion of the Jews from Provence

    1498 – 1501

    Provence

  32. Expulsion of the Jews from Nuremberg

    21 June 1498 – March 1499

    Nuremberg

  33. Expulsion of the Jews from the Kingdom of Naples

    1510 – 1541

    Kingdom of Naples

  34. Berlin host-desecration trial and expulsion from Brandenburg

    10 July 1510

    Mark Brandenburg (executions in Berlin)

    400 – 500 0.031% – 0.063% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1490)

  35. Expulsion of the Jews from Regensburg

    21 February 1519

    Regensburg

    500 – 800 0.038% – 0.1% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1490)

  36. Expulsion of the Jews from Prague

    1541 – 1545

    Prague

  37. Expulsion of the Jews from the Duchy of Bavaria

    21 December 1551 – 1553

    Duchy of Bavaria

  38. Expulsion of the Jews from the Papal States

    26 February 1569

    Papal States except Rome and Ancona

  39. Expulsion of the Jews from the Duchy of Milan

    1597

    Duchy of Milan

  40. Expulsion of the Jews from Genoa

    8 January 1598

    Genoa

  41. Fettmilch expulsion of the Jews from Frankfurt

    22 August 1614 – February 1616

    Frankfurt am Main

    1,380 0.11% – 0.17% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1490)

  42. Expulsion of the Jews from Worms

    20 April 1615 – January 1616

    Worms

  43. Expulsion of the Jews from Mantua

    July 1630

    Mantua

    1,600 – 1,800 0.12% – 0.23% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1490)

  44. Expulsion of the Jews from Recife

    January 1654 – April 1654

    Recife (Pernambuco)

  45. Forced conversions under Shah Abbas II

    1656 – 1662

    Safavid Persia (Isfahan, Kashan and other cities)

  46. Expulsion of the Jews from Vienna

    1 March 1670 – 1 August 1670

    Vienna

    3,000 – 4,000 0.3% – 0.4% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1650)

  47. Mawza Exile

    1679 – 1680

    Yemen (expelled to Mawza, Tihama)

  48. Maria Theresa expulsion of the Jews from Prague

    December 1744 – August 1748

    Prague and Bohemia

  49. Expulsion of Jews from the villages of Mogilev and Vitebsk

    11 April 1823 – January 1825

    Mogilev and Vitebsk governorates

    20,000 0.61% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1825)

  50. Expulsion of the Jews from Kiev, 1827

    2 December 1827 – 1 February 1835

    Kiev (Kyiv)

  51. Moscow Jewish expulsion

    28 March 1891 – 15 October 1892

    Moscow

    20,000 0.26% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1880)

  52. Russian army expulsions of Jews, 1914–1915

    September 1914 – September 1915

    Front-line provinces of the Russian Empire

    500,000 4.7% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1900)

  53. Expulsion of Jews from northern Afghanistan

    September 1933 – November 1933

    Northern Afghanistan (Mazar-e Sharif, Andkhoi, Maimana)

  54. Thrace pogroms

    21 June 1934 – July 1934

    Eastern Thrace (Çanakkale, Edirne, Kırklareli, Tekirdağ)

    3,000 0.02% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1933)

  55. Expulsion of the Jews of Burgenland

    11 March 1938 – October 1938

    Burgenland

  56. Expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany

    28 October 1938 – 29 October 1938

    German Reich and the Polish border, including Zbąszyń

    16,000 – 18,000 0.096% – 0.11% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1939)

  57. Deportation of Austrian Jews

    1939 – 1944

    Vienna

  58. Deportation of Jews from Stettin and Pomerania to the Lublin district

    12 February 1940 – 16 February 1940

    Stettin (Szczecin) and other towns in Pomerania

    1,000 – 1,300 0.006% – 0.0079% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1939)

  59. Expulsion of the Jews of Alsace

    13 July 1940 – 30 July 1940

    Alsace

    3,000 0.018% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1939)

  60. Deportation of the Jews of Baden, the Palatinate and the Saarland to Gurs

    22 October 1940 – 23 October 1940

    Baden, the Palatinate and the Saarland

    6,504 – 7,000 0.039% – 0.042% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1939)

  61. Drancy internment camp

    August 1941 – August 1944

    Drancy internment camp, northeastern suburb of Paris

  62. Deportation of Jews from Bessarabia, Bukovina and Dorohoi to Transnistria

    September 1941 – October 1942

    Bessarabia, Bukovina, the Dorohoi district, and Transnistria

    146,555 – 200,000 0.88% – 1.2% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1939)

  63. Extradition of Jewish refugees from Finland

    1942

    Finland

  64. Deportation of the Jews of Cyrenaica, 1942

    7 February 1942 – October 1942

    Cyrenaica (removal to Giado and other sites)

    2,600 0.016% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1939)

  65. Deportation of Slovak Jews

    March 1942 – October 1942

    Slovakia

  66. Vél' d'Hiv roundup

    16 July 1942 – 17 July 1942

    Vélodrome d'Hiver, 15th arrondissement, Paris

  67. Deportation of Jews from Mechelen

    July 1942 – September 1944

    Mechelen (Malines) to Auschwitz-Birkenau

  68. Deportation of Jews from Norway

    October 1942 – February 1943

    Norway

  69. Westerbork–Sobibor deportations

    2 March 1943 – 20 July 1943

    Westerbork (Netherlands) to Sobibor (German-occupied Poland)

  70. Deportation of Jews from Bulgarian-occupied Thrace and Macedonia

    4 March 1943 – 29 March 1943

    Bulgarian-occupied Thrace, Macedonia and Pirot

  71. Deportation of the Jews of Salonika

    15 March 1943 – August 1943

    Thessaloniki (Salonika), German-occupied Greece

  72. Expulsion of the Jews of Sofia

    24 May 1943

    Sofia

    19,153 – 20,000 0.17% – 0.18% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1945)

  73. Deportation of Jews from Denmark

    1 October 1943 – 15 April 1945

    Denmark to Theresienstadt

  74. Rome roundup of 16 October 1943

    16 October 1943 – 18 October 1943

    Rome

  75. Deportation of the Jews of Ioannina

    25 March 1944

    Ioannina, German-occupied Greece

  76. Deportation of Hungarian Jews

    15 May 1944 – 9 July 1944

    Hungary (provinces of Greater Hungary)

  77. Deportation of the Jews of Corfu

    10 June 1944

    Corfu, German-occupied Greece

  78. Deportation of the Jews of Rhodes

    20 July 1944

    Rhodes, German-occupied Dodecanese

  79. Arrow Cross killings in Budapest

    15 October 1944 – 13 February 1945

    Budapest, Hungary

  80. Expulsion of foreign Jews from Lebanon, 1948

    January 1948

    Beirut

  81. Removal of the Jews from the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, 1948

    28 May 1948 – 29 May 1948

    Jewish Quarter, Old City of Jerusalem

    2,000 0.017% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1948)

  82. Expulsion of Egyptian Jews, 1956

    November 1956 – 1957

    Egypt (Cairo and Alexandria)

    21,000 – 25,000 0.19% – 0.22% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1950)

  83. Evacuation of the remaining Jews of Aden, 1967

    June 1967

    Aden (Crater and Tawahi)

  84. Evacuation of the Jews of Libya, 1967

    5 June 1967 – September 1967

    Libya (Tripoli and Benghazi)

    4,500 – 6,000 0.037% – 0.05% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1960)

  85. Forced emigration of Jews from Poland, 1968

    19 June 1967 – 1971

    Poland

    12,927 – 13,000 0.11% of the worldwide Jewish population (c. 1960)