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Boycott of Jewish Shops and Businesses
When the Nazi's boycotted the Jewish businesses in Germany. Although it didn't work at the beginning because the German population would still use Jewish businesses. -
Nuremberg Laws
This was an anti-Jewish law that meant Jews were no longer considered German citizens. This also meant that they could not marry an Aryan or fly the German flag. -
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
An anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland. This was when they invaded Jewish stores, buildings and synagogues had their windows smashed, creating the name Kristallnacht. It also happened that they killed and took Jews into Concentration Camps. -
Jewish transferring retail business to Aryans
At this time, even after the boycott of Jewish stores, there was a decree created stating that all Jewish store owners would need to hand their business over to an Aryan. This meant that many Jews would be out of jobs. -
Jewish children expelled from German Schools
This meant that if your child aws Jewish, they would no longer be able to attend a German school and wuold have to attend a Jewish school or no school at all. -
Possible extermination of European Jews
During Hitler's Reichstag speech, he had said that if there indeed was going to be a war outbreak, that it would mean he would start the extermination of the Jews, killing them off. -
Wearing Yellow Bands or a Yellow Star
For the Jewish that were still in German-occupied Poland, at this time they were forced to wear a Yellow Band or a Yellow Star so that they would stand out from the rest of the population. -
Auschwitz
On this day, the most known brutal concentration camp was created, Auschwitz. It is estimated that at least 1.1 million people died at this Concentration Camp. -
Gas Extermination
At the Sobibor killing centre, the extermination by gas had begun. By October 1943, there was about 250,000 Jewish murdered by this method. -
Death March
At this point, the death march of approximately 40,000 Jewish had begun from Budapest to Austria. Death March is a forced march of prisers with the intent to kill, brutalize, and/or weaken them along this march. -
End of Holocaust
At this time, the Holocaust was at an end. It is estimated that about 11 MILLION people were killed during the Holocaust, with about 1.1 million of them being children.
