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Enabling Act
It allowed Hitler to suggest and sign the legislation into law without consulting the higher party. This affected jews because Hitler could make it legal to torture them. -
Civil Service Law
This law was put in place to remove Jews and political opponents of Nazis from civil positions, or like everyday places including, School, University, and government jobs. This law affected the jews because they could no longer learn or have a good-paying job. -
Education Law
The law stated that Jewish students could be no more than 5 percent of the student population of any public school or university. This law took away most jews in schools so now they can't learn. -
Jewish Name Law
Any jew who did not have a Jewish name had to take the name of Israel or Sarah. Most of the jews now had to have the same name so they couldn’t be different. -
Kristallnacht Attacks
Nazi supporters launched planned attacks on Jewish homes, stores, cemeteries, and synagogues. This event was devastating to jews because they lost everything in their shops. -
First Kindertransport Arrives
During the 1940s, Kindertransports were transports of bringing Jewish children from Nazi-controlled lands into lands that were safe from the Nazis like in Great Britain, the Netherlands, and France. This helped jews get to safety from danger. -
First Prisoners Arrive at Auschwitz
In June 1940 all Christan and Jewish people were put into concentration camps and most of them went to the most popular camp of all Auschwitz and were imprisoned for years and tested on and killed. This event was very bad because they thought they were going to a good place but instead they were getting tortured. -
Mass Murder Begins at Chelmno
Chelmno was the first Major killing operation in order to annihilate the Jewish population. Chelmno was also the first location to use gas to mass-murder Jews. At least 172,000 Jews and others were killed here. They used gas to kill Jews in a gas chamber. -
Isadore Frenkiel
Isadore had a wife and 7 kids and was 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. -
Announcement of Death Penalty for Aiding Jews
This law means anyone who would try to help, transport, or buy valuables for Jews would be sentenced to death. This took away jew's help to get food and things for them. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins
In Warsaw, Poland, Nazi forces attempted to clear out the cities. The Jewish ghetto is met by gunfire from Jewish resistance fighters, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins. On January 18, 1943, the Nazis entered the ghetto to prepare a group for transfer. The fighting lasted for several days, and a number of German soldiers were killed before they withdrew. 300,00 jews were killed. This shows that this event killed 300,000 jews. -
Anne Frank
In 1942 Margot Frank was ordered to report for forced labor. The family then decided to go into hiding above 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. Anna and her family went to a camp in the Netherlands, then Auschwitz- Birkenau. Otto Frank survived and published her diary in 1947.