Discrimination against Jews in interwar Europe 1933 Boycott

Discrimination against Jews in interwar Europe

1933 �Boycott of Jewish businesses �Non-Aryans cannot serve in military �Book burning of non-German authors (including Helen Keller) �Jews forbidden from working in the arts (Film, Theater, Broadcasting, Music, etc) �Jews forbidden from being journalists �Cannot join labor unions �Cannot inherit or pass down farms

1934 �Jewish people banned from getting health insurance �Armed forces cannot marry non-Aryans �Newspaper campaigns begin (Jewish doctors murder Christian children)

1935 -Nuremberg Laws

1936 �Signs taken down for Olympics �The Eternal Jew comes out… � https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=U 2 Iazwru 7 y. E&list=PL 7 x_PGOIp. T hj. Cha. Ids. G 35 o. Zvdnj. Gva. Lft

1937/8 �http: //www. johndclare. net/Nazi_Germany 2_Poison ous. Mushroom. htm

1938 �Utilization of Jewish property �Banned from public schools �Jews banned from public spaces �Passports stamped �Middle names changed �Arrests begin �Kristallnacht �US accepted 25, 000 out of 127, 000 applicants � 32 countries met to discuss refugees. US only came once promised they wouldn’t have to accept more than they already were. (depression—people feared immigrants would take their jobs)

1939 �Jews in Nazi territory must wear yellow star

1939 -St. Louis � Ship St. Louis left Europe with 937 Jews, mostly from the Third Reich. They had Cuban entrance visas (permission to enter the country). � Many people travelled easily between the US and Cuba at that time. Many of these people probably hoped to enter the US too. � The US heard about the ship and put pressure on the Cuban government to not let the passengers get off the ship in Cuba. � 28 people were allowed to get off the ship, the rest were sent back to Europe. � When they sailed past the lights of Miami, many passengers sent cables begging Pres. Roosevelt to give them refuge. He never responded. � 254 of those passengers died in the holocaust. Others were taken in by countries not occupied by the Nazis (like Britain)

1940 �Warsaw ghetto walled in �Auschwitz opened

1941 �Einsatzgruppen created �Western Jews deported to ghettos �Gassing starts at first death camp (Chelmno)

1942 �More death camps open �Mass deportation of Jews to death camps begins

1943 �Chelmno and Treblinka finish work. Death camps are torn down and crime covered up. �Roma (Gypsies) sent to concentration camps

1944 �Death march from Auschwitz starts �Hungarian Jews sent to camps �US refuses to bomb concentration camps

1945 �Auschwitz liberated by Soviets �Western camps liberated by Britain and American troops