Antisemitism Timeline

  • 1 CE

    The Romans

    After the Romans conquered the Jews in the expansion of the empire they attempted to force the Jews to convert, but they refused. This began Christian anti-Judaism, in which many people are very harsh to Jewish people.
  • 1500

    Workers of the Devil

    During this time people referred to the Jews as the workers of the devil and blamed them for many diseases, the worst of which being the plague.
  • Antisemitism begins

    The Jewish were discriminated against for not being Aryan or German which was known as the "master race". Their beliefs along with their appearance and race were used to discriminate them.
  • Hitler is born

    Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, he would become the leader of Aryan Germany and led the genocide of the Jews.
  • Racism

    Racial thinking became main stream and exceptionable.
  • Ghettos

    Jews were completely separated from other people and races, they were put into ghettos which were constantly under watch and guard.
  • The Holocaust

    After Hitler came into power in Germany he made many moves to enslave and start the mass genocide of the Jewish people. Millions of Jews were killed, this was called the Holocaust and was one of the biggest focal points of WWII
  • Jews to the chamber

    12,000 Jews were shipped per day to be killed.