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Jews assembled next to the train station in Luxembourg's Hollerich Quarter, before their deportation to the extermination camps on 19 September 1942. The Luxembourg Einsatzkommando, subordinate to the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) was in charge of the deportation. The list of Jews slated for deportation was transferred to the civil administration department handling the confiscation and sale of Jewish deportees' property.
Allied forces liberated Luxembourg on September 9, 1944. Of the 3,500 Jews living there in 1939, 1,555 survived, by fleeing, hiding, or surviving in the camps; 1,945 were murdered, a third in the camps to which they had been deported from Luxembourg, and the rest in the country itself or in other occupied countries to which they had fled or been deported. Only a few Jews returned after the war.
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