1. Discrimination against Jews in interwar Europe

2. 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

4. 1934 Jewish people banned from getting health insurance
Armed forces cannot marry non-Aryans
Newspaper campaigns begin (Jewish doctors murder Christian children)

5. 1935-Nuremberg Laws

6. 1936 Signs taken down for Olympics The Eternal Jew comes out…

7. 1937/8

8. 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)

10. 1939
Jews in Nazi territory must wear yellow star

11. 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)

12. 1940
Warsaw ghetto walled in
Auschwitz opened

14. 1941 Einsatzgruppen created Western Jews deported to ghettos
Gassing starts at first death camp (Chelmno)

15. 1942
More death camps open
Mass deportation of Jews to death camps begins

16. 1943
Chelmno and Treblinka finish work. Death camps are torn down and crime covered up.
Roma (Gypsies) sent to concentration camps

17. 1944 Death march from Auschwitz starts Hungarian Jews sent to camps
US refuses to bomb concentration camps

18. 1945 Auschwitz liberated by Soviets
Western camps liberated by Britain and American troops