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Abraham's family moved to Egypt and became slaves in the working force.
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Moses led the Hebrews out of slavery and parted the Red Sea
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Jews were forced to wear a yellow belt to separate them from the Christian
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Assyrians invade and conquer Israel's northern tribes.
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Roman invaders conquer Jerusalem, seize the city, and destroy the temple, which is never rebuilt.
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The descendants of Abraham moved to Egypt and began working as slaves.
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Several Jews were accused of murdering a Roman Catholic monk and several of his servants.
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Edgardo Mortara was kidnapped, at the age of six, from his Jewish family by Roman Catholic officials after they found out that a maid had secretly baptized him. He was not returned to his family but was raised a Catholic. He eventually became a priest.
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600,000 Jews were forcibly moved from the western borders of Russia towards the interior. About 100,000 died of exposure or starvation
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Two hundred thousand Jews were murdered in the Ukraine alone.
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Hitler had published in Mein Kampf in 1925, writing: "Today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." The Protocols are used by the Nazis to whip up public hatred of the Jews in the 1930's.
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Jews had their citizenship taken away
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Hitler brought back century-old church law, ordering all Jews to wear a yellow Star of David as identification. A few hundred thousand Jews are allowed to leave Germany after they give all of their assets to the government.
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Polish citizens in Jedwabne in northeastern Poland killed hundreds of Jews, by either beating them to death or burning them alive in a barn
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Jewish people regain citizenship and other human rights
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In some parts of Poland Jews were still being treated with anti-
Semitism.
