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Kristallnacht "The Night of the Broken Glass"

  • Registration of Property

    Registration of Property

    German Jews required to register their property. At this point, all Jews basically owned absolutely nothing.
  • Evian Conference

    Evian Conference

    Convened by President Roosevelt, 32 coutries met at the Evian Conference in France to discuss refugee problems. Little is acomplished; most Western countries were unwilling to accept Jewish refugees.
  • Expulsion of Polish Jews

    Expulsion of Polish Jews

    Affected nearly 18, 000 Polish-Jews. Passports of Polish citizens residing abroad for more than five years would require revalidation.
  • Cease of Business

    Cease of Business

    All Jewish retail establishments in Germany ordered to cease business by the end of the year.
  • White Paper Issue

    White Paper Issue

    British government issues a White Paper which restricts future Jewish immigration to Palestine to 75,000 over the next five years.
  • Jews turned away from Cuba

    Jews turned away from Cuba

    The S.S. St. Louis, carrying 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba. The U.S. refuses to admit the refugees, who are forced to return to Europe.
  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland

    Germany invades Poland. Polish Jews soon become prisoners.
  • The call for violence to stop by Goebbels

    The call for violence to stop by Goebbels

    Sixty-two Jews suffered punishment so severe that the police, “unable to bear their cries, turned their backs”. They were beaten until they fell and, when they fell, they were further beaten. At the end of it, “twelve of the sixty-two were dead, their skulls smashed. The others were all unconscious. The eyes of some had been knocked out, their faces flattened and shapeless”. The 30,000 Jewish men who had been imprisoned during Kristallnacht were released over the next three months.
  • Polish People Die

    Polish People Die

    Germans have killed more than 16,000 Polish civilians in first six weeks of war. Five thousand of them are Jewish.