Major Holocaust Events
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1933, April 1 ~ German boycott of Jewish businesses begins 1933 September ~ Germany passes law prohibiting Jews from owning land 1934, May 17 ~ Jews are banned from having national health care insurance 1935, May 21 ~ Jews are banned from serving in the German military 1935, September 15 ~ Nuremberg Laws Passed 1937, January ~ Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances 1937, November 7 ~ 'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich 1938, April 26 ~ Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property
1938, June 14 ~ Nazis order Jewish-owned businesses to register 1938, July 6 ~ Nazis prohibited Jews from trading and providing a variety of specified commercial services 1938, July 23 ~ Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards from the police, to be shown on demand to any police officer 1938, July 25 ~ Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine 1938, August 11 ~ Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg 1938, August 17 ~ Nazis require Jewish women to add Sara and men to add Israel to their names on all legal documents including passports 1938, September 27 ~ Jews are prohibited from all legal practices 1938, October 5 ~ Law requires Jewish passports to be stamped with a large red "J." 1938, November 9/10 Kristallnacht ~ The Night of Broken Glass 1938, November 12 ~ Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht
1938, November 15 ~ Jewish pupils are expelled from all non-Jewish German schools 1939, February 21 ~ Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items |
1939, May ~ The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe
1939, September 23 ~ German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets 1939, October 23 ~ Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60 1939, November 23 ~ Yellow stars are required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10
1940, January 25 ~ Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp 1940, February 12 ~ First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland 1941, July ~ As the German Army advances, SS Einsatzgruppen follow along and conduct mass murder of Jews in seized lands
1941, July 21 ~ In occupied Poland near Lublin, Majdanek concentration camp becomes operational 1941, September ~ Marianne Sara Wolff (13) is deported, along with her parents and 5 brothers and sisters, to Camp Majdanek, and disappears from history Today: A corridor of shoes bear silent witness for the thousands of persons who were exterminated at Majdanek Concentration Camp in Lublin, Germany.
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