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Earliest claims that Jews killed Christ
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Jews as Lepers
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Sep 17, 1012
The Start of Persecution in Germany
Emperor Henry II of Germany expels Jews from Mainz, the beginning of persecutions against Jews in Germany. -
Sep 17, 1096
First Crusades
First Crusades. Crusaders massacre the Jews of the Rhineland -
Sep 17, 1144
Blood Libel
The accusation that Jews kidnapped and murdered the children of Christians to use their blood as part of their religious rituals during Jewish holidays. Originated in Martyrdom of St.William of Norwich (England). -
Sep 17, 1146
Second Crusades
Anti-Jewish riots in Rhineland by the Crusaders of the second Crusades. -
Sep 17, 1290
Jews Expelled from England
Expulsion of the Jews from England, the first of the great general expulsions of the Middle Ages. -
Sep 17, 1290
Jews Expelled from France
Expulsion of Jews from France. -
Sep 17, 1435
Jews of Majorca
Massacre and conversion of the Jews of Majorca. -
Sep 17, 1438
Ghetoos in Morocco
Establishment of mellahs (ghettos) in Morocco -
Jul 30, 1492
Expulsion from Spain
About 200,000 Jews -
Sep 17, 1493
Expulsion from Sicily
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Sep 17, 1495
Expulsion from Lithuania
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Sep 17, 1496
Expulsion from Portugal
Mass forced conversion in addition to expulsion -
Sep 17, 1510
Expulsion from Bradenburg
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Sep 17, 1535
Tunisia massacre
Jews of Tunisia expelled and massacred -
Sep 17, 1541
Expulsion from kingdom of Naples
Expulsion from the kingdom of Naples. Expulsion from Prague and crown cities. -
Sep 17, 1550
Expulsion from Genoa
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Sep 17, 1551
Expulsion from Bavaria
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Massacres of Jews during the wars of Poland against Sweden and Russia
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Expulsion from Prague
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Destruction of most of the Jewish communities of Morocco.
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Massacre of Jews in Algeria
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Anti-Jewish Riots
A series of anti-Jewish riots in Germany that spread to several neighboring countries (Denmark, Poland, Latvia and Bohemia) known as Hep_Hep Riots, from the derogatory rallying cry against the Jews in Germany. (HEP = 'Hierosolymos Est Perdita' - Jerusalem is lost, apparently first used in the Middle Ages in riots associated with the crusades.) -
Pogrom
Pogrom is a Russian word meaning “to wreak havoc, to demolish violently.” Historically, the term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire and in other countries. The first such incident to be labeled a pogrom is believed to be anti-Jewish rioting in Odessa in 1821. -
First International Anti-Jewish Congress convened at Dresden, Germany
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Expulsion of about 10,000 Russian Jews from Germany.
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Expulsion from Moscow, Russia
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Polish Boycott against Jews
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Russian Civil War Pogroms
(1917-1921) Pogroms in the Ukraine and Poland. 1) Pogroms by retreating Red Army from the Ukraine (spring, 1918), before the German army. 2) Pogroms by the retreating Ukraine army under the command of Simon Petlyura,. 3)Pogroms by the counter revolutionary "White Army" under the command of General A.I. Denikin (fall, 1919) 4) Pogroms by the "White Army" in Siberia and Mongolia (1919). 5) Pogroms by anti-Soviet bands in the Ukraine (1920-21). 6) Pogroms in Poland including Galicia -
Pograms in Hungary
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Hitler
Adolf Hitler becomes Fuehrer, of the National-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), (NAZIs) -
Economic Restrictions on Jews in Poland
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Adolf Hitier's Mein Kampf appears
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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.
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Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany.
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Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service.
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Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases.
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Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany.
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Germany introduces military conscription.
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Nuremberg Laws introduced.
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German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland.
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Anti-Semitic legislation in Rumania.
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Evian Conference
July 6-16, Evian Conference on Jewish refugees at Evian les Bains verifies that the world has shut its doors against Jewish refugees. -
Deportations to camps in Austria and Germany.
After Anschluss, pogroms in Vienna, anti-Jewish legislation introduced. -
Munich Agreement
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Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht Nazi anti-Jewish outrage in Germany and Austria (Nov. 9-10, 1938): Jewish businesses attacked, synagogues burnt, Jews sent to concentration camps -
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.
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Beginning of Holocaust
Outbreak of World War 11 (Sept. 1, 1939), Poland overrun by German army: pogroms in Poland; beginning of the Holocaust. -
Yellow Badge
By the end of 1939, all Jews in the newly-acquired Polish territories were required to wear yellow badges. -
Nazi Gassing
Nazi Germany introduces gassing. -
Formation of ghettos in Poland
Mass shootings of Jews: Auschwitz camp, later an extermination camp, established; Western European Jews under Nazis. Belzec extermination camp established. -
Einsatzgruppen
Mobile killing units shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno. -
Germany invades Russia
Germany invades Russia and the Baltic states. Majdanek extermination camp established. Chelmno and Treblinka extermination camps established. Anti-Jewish laws in Slovakia. Pogroms in Jassy (Iasi), Rumania. Pogroms and massacres by the Einsatzgruppen and native population in Baltic states and the part of Russia occupied by Germany. Expulsions of Jews from the German Reich to Poland. Beginning of deportation and murder of Jews in France. -
Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.
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Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka).
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Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest.
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Nazi Germany declares war on the United States.
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ermans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.
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Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.
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Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).
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Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center.
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Wannsee Conference
Conference in Wannsee, Berlin, to carry out the "Final Solution" (Jan. 20, 1942). Beginning of mass transports of Jews of Belgium and Holland to Auschwitz. Massacres in occupied Russia continue. Death camps of Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka begin to function at full capacity: transports from ghettos to death camps. Sobibor extermination camp established. -
Warsaw ghetto uprising begins.
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Germany declared Judenrein.
Transports of Jews from all over Europe to death camps. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and final liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto (May 16, 1943). Annihilation of most of the ghettos. Transport of Italian Jews to death camps. -
Rescue of Jews in Denmark.
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Soviet troops liberate Kiev.
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Extermination of Hungarian Jewry
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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland
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Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland.
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Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex.
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American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
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Germany Surrenders
estimated Jewish victims in the Holocaust 5,820,960. -
Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
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Jewish culture in U.S.S.R. suppressed and Jewish intellectuals shot.
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Jews of Egypt expelled.
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Fresh wave of anti-Semitism in Poland
Emigration of most of the remaining Jews of Poland. -
Jews executed in Iraq
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Holocaust a Myth??
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, claims that the Holocaust was a myth or exaggerated, vows to achieve a "world without Zionism and Israel. -
Persecution of Jews in Persia
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Jews declared slaves
All Jews under Visigothic rule in Spain declared slaves, their possessions confiscated and the Jewish religion outlawed.