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A Jewish Hanukkah menorah defies the Nazi swatiska
It was the eighth night of Chanukah in Kiel, Germany, a small town with a Jewish population of 500. That year, 1931, the last night Chanukah fell on Friday evening, and Rabbi Akiva Boruch Posner, spiritual leader of the town was hurrying to light the Menorah before the Shabbat set in. -
Hitler Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany -
The First Concentration Camps in Germany
The first concentration camp was opened at Dachau in Germany -
Jewish shops boycotted
Germans were told not to buy from Jewish shops or businesses -
Jewish persecution
An order was issued which prohibited Jewish people from having health insurance -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were introduced. These laws were designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship -
Austrian Jews persecuted
nschluss which joined Germany and Austria, Jews in Austria were persecuted and victimised. -
Kristallnacht
A night of extreme violence.Approximately 100 Jews were murdered,20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps.Hundreds of synagogues burned, and the Windows of Jewish shops all over Germany and Austria smashed -
Jew were fined
Jews were made to pay one billion marks for the damage caused by Kristallnacht. -
Jewish children expelled from schools
An order was issued that stated that Jewish children should not be allowed to attend non-Jewish German schools -
Austrian and Czech Jews deported
Jews living in Austria and Czechoslovakia were sent to Poland -
Yellow Star introduced
Jews in Poland were forced to sew a yellow star onto their clothes so that they could be easily identified.
