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To avoid being killed or ending up in a concentration camp. There was a great amount of hatred toward the Jews in Europe at the time, as they were being blamed for many things that they had nothing to do with, as well as the fact that many of them were deported to concentration camps and either killed there or died of disease there. It was also illegal for Jews at the time to buy or sell from anyone who wasn't Jewish, but Jewish shops were destroyed and closed, so buying from Jews was almost impossible. Jews were not allowed to get jobs, education, or a safe place to live at the time in Europe.

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The Jews fled Eastern Europe because of the Holocaust; which was basically a genocide of Germans vs. Jews.

Hitler and his Nazi army were killing most or all Jews; he influenced all of Western Europe to also do this.

That's why the Jews fled Western Europe

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Jews never migrated out of Western Europe into Eastern Europe, or at least not at a large scale. Over history, Jews migrated from the Middle East all over Europe, west or east. However, during World War II, the Jewish population was dramatically reduced in all of Europe by more than half. During WWII and the Holocaust, few Jews were able to escape and migrate to countries such as the US and UK, where they sought freedom from Hitler's grasp. After WWII and the Holocaust, there was much sympathy for the Jews, and many more Jews migrated to countries such as the US, UK, or France. In the aftermath of the war, the United Kingdom turned their mandate of Palestine into a Jewish state of Israel; it was a sort of safe haven for Jews to compensate for the Holocaust. This caused Jews by the millions to immigrate out of Europe into Israel and the Middle East.

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They were already being persecuted by the Nazis.

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