Timeline: Anti Semitism Timeline

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Earliest claims that Jews killed Christ

300

Jews as Lepers

Jews were expelled from Egypt as Lepers

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

Sep 17, 1495

Expulsion from Lithuania

Sep 17, 1496

Expulsion from Portugal

Mass forced conversion in addition to expulsion

Sep 17, 1510

Expulsion from Bradenburg

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

Sep 17, 1551

Expulsion from Bavaria

Sep 17, 1655

Massacres of Jews during the wars of Poland against Sweden and Russia

Sep 17, 1745

Expulsion from Prague

Sep 17, 1790

Destruction of most of the Jewish communities of Morocco.

Sep 17, 1805

Massacre of Jews in Algeria

Sep 17, 1819

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.)

Sep 17, 1821

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.

Sep 17, 1882

First International Anti-Jewish Congress convened at Dresden, Germany

Sep 17, 1885

Expulsion of about 10,000 Russian Jews from Germany.

Sep 17, 1891

Expulsion from Moscow, Russia

Sep 17, 1909

Polish Boycott against Jews

Sep 17, 1917

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

Sep 17, 1919

Pograms in Hungary

3000 Jews Killed

Sep 17, 1920

Hitler

Adolf Hitler becomes Fuehrer, of the National-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), (NAZIs)

Sep 17, 1924

Economic Restrictions on Jews in Poland

Sep 17, 1926

Adolf Hitier's Mein Kampf appears

Jan 30, 1933

President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.

Mar 20, 1933

SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.

Apr 1, 1933

Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany.

Apr 7, 1933

Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service.

Jul 14, 1933

Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases.

Sep 17, 1933

Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany.

Anti-Jewish economic boycott: first concentration camps (Dachau, Oranienburg, Esterwegen and Sachsenburg).

Mar 16, 1935

Germany introduces military conscription.

Sep 17, 1935

Nuremberg Laws introduced.

Mar 7, 1936

German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland.

Sep 17, 1937

Anti-Semitic legislation in Rumania.

Jul 6, 1938

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.

Sep 17, 1938

Deportations to camps in Austria and Germany.

After Anschluss, pogroms in Vienna, anti-Jewish legislation introduced.

Sep 29, 1938

Munich Agreement

Nov 9, 1938

Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht Nazi anti-Jewish outrage in Germany and Austria (Nov. 9-10, 1938): Jewish businesses attacked, synagogues burnt, Jews sent to concentration camps

Aug 23, 1939

Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.

Sep 1, 1939

Beginning of Holocaust

Outbreak of World War 11 (Sept. 1, 1939), Poland overrun by German army: pogroms in Poland; beginning of the Holocaust.

Sep 17, 1939

Yellow Badge

By the end of 1939, all Jews in the newly-acquired Polish territories were required to wear yellow badges.

Sep 17, 1940

Nazi Gassing

Nazi Germany introduces gassing.

Sep 17, 1940

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.

Jul 6, 1941

Einsatzgruppen

Mobile killing units shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno.

Sep 17, 1941

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.

Sep 28, 1941

Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.

Nov 7, 1941

Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka).

Nov 30, 1941

Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest.

Dec 11, 1941

Nazi Germany declares war on the United States.

Jan 16, 1942

ermans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.

Jan 16, 1942

Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.

Mar 27, 1942

Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).

Jul 22, 1942

Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center.

Sep 17, 1942

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.

Apr 19, 1943

Warsaw ghetto uprising begins.

Sep 17, 1943

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.

Oct 1, 1943