holocaust

  • Hitler appointed chancellor

    The Nazi Party assumes control of the German state.
  • anti jewish boycott

    Members of the Nazi Party and its affiliated organizations organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.
  • Rohm affair

    Hitler orders the purge of the top leadership of the SA, the Nazi Party paramilitary formation.
  • anti jewish laws in hungary

    Hungary adopts comprehensive anti-Jewish laws and measures.
  • american students reflect

    Robert Harlan witnessed Kristallnacht. He recorded his observations while traveling to help the parents of a Jewish friend whose house was ransacked.
  • first kinder transport arrives in britian

    In desperation, Jewish parents send their unaccompanied children abroad to escape Nazi persecution.
  • st. louis sets sail

    The St. louis , carrying Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany, departs for Havana, Cuba.
  • warsaw ghetto sealed

    The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over ten feet high, topped with barbed wire.