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Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
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1937-1947
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Nazis order Jewish-owned businesses to register.
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Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards from the police, to be shown on demand to any police officer
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Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.
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In November - Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia become Nazi Allies.
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In January - A program in Romania results in over 2,000 Jews killed.
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Nazis carry out Operation Harvest Festival in occupied Poland, killing 42,000 Jews.
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March 24, 1944 - President Roosevelt issues a statement condemning German and Japanese ongoing "crimes against humanity."
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January 6, 1945 - Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews.
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Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps
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Germany surrenders
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23 former SS doctors and scientists go on trial before a U.S. Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Sixteen are found guilty, with 7 hanged.
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Twenty one former SS-Einsatz leaders go on trial before a U.S. Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Fourteen are sentenced to death, with only 4 (the group commanders) actually being executed - the other death sentences having been commuted.
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January 1, 1949, and December 31, 1952. Of the 400,000 displaced persons who entered the U.S. under the DP Act, approximately 68,000 were Jews
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