Jewish Persecution

  • Participate in Normal Activities

    Participate in Normal Activities
    Jew's at this time enjoy a normal life like any other person in the world.
  • Children attend School

    Children attend School
    Jewish children can attend schools and universities. Jew's can own businesses and are allowed the same privilages as other Germans.
  • Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

    Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
    This law excluded Jews from state service. This was they first taste of exclusion for the Jews.
  • Restricted Number of Jews allowed at schools and univiersities

    Restricted Number of Jews allowed at schools and univiersities
    A new law put a restriction on the number of Jewish children that could attend schools and universities. At this same time laws were put in place that forbade Jewish lawyers to work on legal matters and Jewish doctors could not treat non-Jewish patients.
  • Numerberg Laws strip citizenship

    Numerberg Laws strip citizenship
    The Numerberg Laws said that Jews were not citizens of the Reich and could not marry anyone who was "German". Jews couldn't vote or hold a seat in office.
  • Effects of Kristallnacht

    Effects of Kristallnacht
    Jews were banned from all public schools and universities, as well as from cinemas, theaters, and sports facilities. In many cities, Jews were forbidden to enter designated "Aryan" zones.
  • The Start of Concentration Camps

    The Start of Concentration Camps
    Concentration Camps were places they sent Jews to do forced labor and live out of the way of the German people.
  • No Public Transport and must wear Star of David

    No Public Transport and must wear Star of David
    Jews were not allowed to ride any busses and at all times must have the Star of David on their outer most piece of clothing so everyone knew they were a Jew.
  • Jews sent to live in Ghettos

    Jews sent to live in Ghettos
    Every Jew was rounded up and sent to live in extremely over crowded ghettos in Poland. This would make things easier when it came time to deport them to death camps.
  • First Death Camp Opened

    First Death Camp Opened
    Death camps were the places the Nazi's sent the Jews to be killed. They had a systematic way of doing all their dirty deeds. When gas chambers were put into place Auchwitz alone was killing 6,000 Jews per day.
  • Jews liberated from death camps

    Jews liberated from death camps
    As the U.S. and Russia were advancing into Germany they began seeing these death camps. The Nazi's tried to destroy as much evidence as they could but there was no way they could get it all. Most all the people they found at these camps looked like the man in this picture, just skin and bones.