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Period: to
Holocaust events
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Nazi Party takes power. Hitler is chancellor; civil liberties are taken away
Hitler is chancellor; civil liberties are taken away -
Htiler becomes Fuhrer; Jewish newspapers are silenced.
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Jews are deprived of citizenship.
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Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses; Jewish right to vote is removed.
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Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
30,000 Jews arrested
Jews must now carry ID cards
Jewish businesses are shut down
Jewish children are forced to Jewish schools
Strict curfew in enforced -
Nazis take over Czechoslavakia and Poland
Britain and France declare war on Germany
WWII starts
Jews must wear the Star of David on their clothing -
Nazis deport Jews to Poland
Jews are forced into ghettos
first mass murder of Jews in Poland
Jews into concentration camps -
Germany attacks the Soviet Union
Jews in Western Europe forced into ghettos -
Nazis submit the "Final Solution"
Final Solution: a plan to kill all Jews
Lists of forbidden items for Jews: newspapers, radios, pets, electrical equipment, bicycles, school, and meat, eggs, and vegetables -
Death toll: 80% to 85% of Jews to die are already dead
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Hitler takes over Hungary
12,000 Jews a day are deported to Aushwitz -
Hitler Defeated
WWII ends
Surviving Jews are placed in displaced persons camps -
Nuremburg Trials
Trials for Nazi war crimes. -
The United Nations is established.
UN establishes Jewish homeland in British controlled Palestine, which becomes Israel. -
Israel becomes the Jewish nation.
