The Holocaust

Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany January 30, 1933

Germany 1933 The Nazi’s bring Totalitarian control German Parliament legalizes Hitler’s control of government Nazi’s boycott Jewish shops & businesses

Nazi Persecutions Intensify 1933 brings mass book burnings all over germany Jewish authors are among the targets of censureship and book burnings Jews are excluded from the arts

Jews are targeted for more persecution 1934 Jews are banned from German Labor Unions Jews are not allowed National Health Insurance Hitler is given the title of “Fuhrer”

1935 Jews are banned from the military Women are given forced abortions Nuremberg Race Laws are passed Joseph Goebbles at book burning rally

1937 Jews are banned from the German professions Jews are denied tax deductions by the German government Jewish stereotyping begins with the Eternal Jew Exhibition Eternal Jew Exhibition

1938 Jewish schoolchildren are forbidden to attend school with non-Jewish children Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass” against Jews occurs Hermann Goring takes charge of solving the “Jewish Question”

1940 Auschwitz is the first of new “death camps” Polish Ghettos sealed with thousands of Jews inside

Death Camps In 1941 Jews were forced to wear Yellow stars Mass Killings using Zylon B gas begin at Auschwitz

Statistics 9,508,340 Jews lived in Europe before World War II 5, 962, 129 were killed in German Concentration camps or were worked to death on civil projects 3, 546, 211 survived until the allies liberated them from the camps

Sources Library of Congress (AAM Collection) United States Holocaust Museum Univ. of South Florida Holocaust Page e/Website.htm