Appendix for Intergenerational Mobility Following a Large Exogenous Shock: Evidence from the Holocaust

Jewish Immigration Jewish emigration from Europe was part of a massive wave of immigration across many groups from the Old World to the New World, occurring between the middle of 19th century and the start of World War II. The wave of immigration into Palestine during the 1930s, the Fifth Aliyah, was the largest immigration wave prior to the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel in May 1948, and its membership was the least ideological in nature, as they were simply fleeing increasingly harsh conditions in Europe. A2.3 Push Factors: Poverty and Anti-Semitism Drive Jews to Leave Europe At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Eastern Europe Jewish communities were inclined to emigrate, primarily due to harsh economic conditions but also because of anti-Semitism. [...]in the years immediately preceding the war, the anti-Semitic boycott of Jewish businesses increased the economic pressure on Polish Jewry.