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Operation "Harvest Festival"
Approximately 42,000 Jews were killed during Operation "Harvest Festival" (Aktion "Erntefest"), which began at dawn on November 3, 1943.
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![Deportation of Jews from Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, to the Theresienstadt ghetto. [LCID: 77905]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/413bd128-a130-4c41-90c5-b40d307c9d82.jpg)
![Axis leaders Adolf Hitler and Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini meet in Munich, Germany, 1940. [LCID: 80504]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/9ffb612d-3757-4118-9d36-6a83dda0f0c9.jpg)
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