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Herbert Baum is born on February 10,1912 in Moschin,Province of Posen.
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Herbert Baum moves to Berlin.
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He becomes head of the German-Jewish youth group Ring-Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend.
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Herbert gets a job as a electrician.
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He joins the communist youth federation in 1931.
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The SS establishes the Dachau concentration camp in March 1933.
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Members of the Nazi Party and its affiliated organizations organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.
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The Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limits the number of Jewish students in public schools.
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Adolf Hitler becomes president of Germany.
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He began to attend evening classes at the Beuth Academy to qualify as an electrical engineer,but he was banned from attending anymore classes in 1935 because he was Jewish.
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The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 herald a new wave of antisemitic legislation that brings immediate and concrete segregation.
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He married Marianne Baum in 1936.
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Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937.
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The Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidates all German passports held by Jews. Jews must surrender their old passports, which will become valid only after the letter “J” has been stamped on them.
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A new German decree closes all Jewish-owned businesses
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In 1940,Baum was rounded up and forced into slave labor at the works of the Siemens-Schuckertwerke.
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He headed a group of Jewish slave laborers at the plant,who,to escape deportation to concentration camps,went into the Berlin underground.
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Herbert and his group organised an arson attack on an anti communist and anti-Semitic-propaganda exhibition prepared by Joseph Goebbels at the Berliner Lustgartens.
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rHe and his wife were arrested along with the other members of the Jewish rebels were arrested and taken to extermination camps.
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Herbert Baum was tortured to death in Moabit Prison,dying on June 11,1942.
