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Jewish Timeline
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Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
In 1933, the nazi party won 33 percent of the vote in the German election. President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler, who was the head of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis), the new chancellor of Germany. Jewish people were persecuted against because hitler then later killed, tortures, starved, sent to concentration camps, and more. -
Press Censorship Law
They didn't want jews to work in the newspapers any longer. Newspapers also could not publish any information that was against the Nazi party. Jewish people were persecuted against because they couldn't work for the newspaper anymore. Plus everyone in Germany wasn't getting the real news. -
Reich Citizenship Law
The Reich Citizenship Law indemnified who was jewish or not. So they were persecuted against because there is a law to identify if your jewish or not even though it really doesn't matter. -
Evian Conference of Refugees
President Roosevelt called an international conference of diplomats,representatives from 32 different countries met in EVIAN-LEs-BAINS,France in july 1938. A majority of them said they would not let any more jews into their country. -
Jewish Name Law
The law of Jewish name law required Jews that didn't have a first name to take the middle names of Israel for men and Sara for women. They were persecuted against by not being able to keep their name. -
Kristallnacht Attacks
Kristallnacht (night of broken glass) started after a Polish-Jewish teenager learned his family was deported from Germany, then, because of that, he shot a German diplomat in Paris. After that, Nazi supporters planned attacks on jewish property.Jewish people were persecuted against because their property was destroyed and they were sent to concentration camps. -
Anti-Jewish Economy Law
This law was targeted specifically Jewish home owners.Jews could not own businesses, and if they did then they would have to sell them to an employee or Nazi supporter for a very low price. So jewish people were persecuted against by not being able to own shops. -
First Prisoners Arrive at Auschwitz
On June 14th, 1940 all Christian and Jewish people were sent and put in concentration camps.Most of them went to the most popular camp of all Auschwitz and were imprisoned for years. -
Jewish Badge Introduced in Germany
Jewish people were targeted and forced to wear a yellow patch in the shape of a start. They had to wear it to show they were jewish. They also wore it to isolate and humiliate jews just for being jewish. If a jewish person did not wear the star. -
Isadore Frenkiel
Isadore had a wife and 7 kids and were from a very Jewish religious family. A cousin visited them after escaping transport to warn them about the rumors. The rumor was that they put you in trucks, gas you, and throw you into a burning pit. The family didn't believe him and sent him away. In may 1942, they were deported to Chelmno killing center. Isadore and 4 of his sons were placed in a sealed van and asphyxiated with exhaust fumes. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins
In Warsaw, Poland, Nazi forces attempted to clear out the city’s. Jewish ghetto is met by gunfire from Jewish resistance fighters, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins. Jews were persecuted against because 300,000 of them were killed. -
Anne Frank
In 1942 Margot Frank was ordered to report for forced labor. The family then decided to go into hiding aboves Otto's business at 263 Prinsengracht Street. Anne began writing in a diary a few weeks before the family went into hiding. In 1944 the gestapo discovered the hiding place. Annae and her family went to a camp in the Netherlands, then auschwitz- birkenau. Otto Frank survived and published her diary in 1947.