Nhd Historical Context Time Line

Itka Zygmuntowicz
1. Impact of Event - The Nazis set up the first concentration camps in Dachau Germany. The first inmates were 200 communists.
Event - The Beginning of the Holocaust. The Nazi party takes power in Germany. Adolf Hitler becomes Chansler or Prime Minister of Germany. The Nazi party starts to suspend civil liberties. Books that are considered "Dangerous" to the Nazi beliefs are taken and burned.
Date – 1933
Biography – After World War 1, Adolf Hitler gains hostility against Jewish people and wants payback.
2. Impact of Event – Hitler combines the positions of Chansler and President of Germany in order to gain more power.
Event – As his first change, Hitler rules that Jewish newspapers cannot be sold in streets.
Date – 1934
Biography – Hitler felt that the Jewish writers would try to damage his reputation and he wanted to make his image as clean as possible.
3. Impact of Events – The Nazis persecute any people who do not agree with the Nazis’ views.
Event – The Jews are deprived from their basic rights.
Date - 1935
Biography – The Nazis power are getting stronger. They make their power known and tell people to agree with them or you will be punished.
4.Impact of Events – The International Olympic Games were held in Germany in this year and the Nazis take down all of the boycott signs so they look good in front of the rest of the world. The Jewish people are left to fend for themselves. This is the beginning of very hard times for the Jewish people. The Nazi people try to take all rights away from Jewish people. They are segregated against. 30,000 Jewish people are arrested.
Event – The Nazis boycott Jewish owned businesses
Date – 1936
Biography – The Nazis declare that the Jewish People were no longer allowed to vote.

5. Impact of Events - The Jewish people are left to fend for themselves. This is the beginning of very hard times for the Jewish people. The Nazi people try to take all rights away from Jewish people. They are segregated against. 30,000 Jewish people are arrested.
Event - The Nazis annexed Austria. On the holiday of Ristallnacht, the Nazis terrorize Jewish people throughout Germany and Austria. The Nazis impose laws to segregate the Jewish People.
Date – 1938
Biography - The Nazis leave the Jewish people in poverty. They imposed laws to hurt the Jewish people. They don’t let the Jewish people have enough money to survive. When the Nazis invaded Poland, Itka Zygmuntowicz’s house was invaded by Nazi troops. They took her and her whole family to Auschwitz death camp. When they arrived, they immediately put a tattoo with numbers. They were no longer referred to as their name, but they were referred to with their number. After the marking, they were taken through a hallway. They walked through the hallway until they reached a fork in the hallway. At the fork, there was a Nazi doctor with white gloves on his hands. The prisoners of the Nazis were told to form a line. When they reached the doctor, he told each person individally which direction they should go. He told Itka to go to the left and the rest of her family to the right. All the people who were told to go to the left would survive, but all the people who were told to go to the right were led into a gas chamber where they were killed. Itka was the only person of her family to survive the concentration camp. Some of the Nazi segregation laws are… Jews must carry id cards and Jewish passports are marked with a "J."; Jews no longer head businesses, attend plays, concerts, etc.; all Jewish children are moved to Jewish schools; Jewish businesses are shut down; they must sell businesses and hand over securities and jewels. Jews must hand over drivers’ licenses and car registrations; Jews must be in certain places at certain times.
6. Impact of Event - Germany takes over Czechoslovakia and invades Poland. Britain and France declare war against Germany.
Event – World War Two begins.
Date – 1939
Biography - Hitler starts to intensify the segregation laws. Hitler orders that Jews must follow curfews; Jews must turn in radios to the police; Jews must wear yellow stars of David.
7. Impact of Events – Poland is the central area for the Nazis to house the German Jews.
Event – The Nazis begin transporting German Jews to Poland. World War Two begins.
Date - 1940
Biography – The Nazis started forcing the Jewish people into poverty stricken segregated neighborhoods. It resembled African – American segregation. They transported the Jews into concentration camps like Auschwitz. Then they started the first Mass Murder of Jews.
8. Impact of Event – The Nazis attack Jews throughout Western Europe.
Event – The Nazis invade the Soviet Union. They limit more rights of the Jewish Prisoners.
Date – 1941
Biography – The Nazis start to take over Europe. They force all their Jewish prisoners into the segregated neighborhoods. They started to take away more of the Jewish peoples’ rights. They told them that they could not leave their homes without permission from the police. They say that the Jews cannot use public telephones.
9. Impact of Event - The Nazis start to talk about the Final Solution, to kill ALL Jews in Europe. This is the spark of World War Two.
Event – The Nazis want to kill all European Jews. They take all rights away from Jews. They told the Jews that they cannot subscribe to newspapers; keep dogs, cats, birds, etc; keep electrical equipment including typewriters; own bicycles; buy meat, eggs, or mild; use public transportation; attend school. The segregation of the Jewish people was worse than the segregation of African Americans.
Date – 1942
Biography – The segregation laws intensify even more. I don’t know for a fact, but I think that the Nazis wanted less of the Jewish people’s belongings to clean up after the Jewish people are dead.
10. Impact of Event – The Nazis have killed a lot of Jewish people. The Jewish streets are deserted and the segregated neighborhoods look like ghost towns.
Event – Most of the Jewish population is dead.
Date – 1943
Biography – The Holocaust is close to being over. By February, 80 to 85 percent of all Jewish people who died in the Holocaust have died already.
11. Impact of Event – Hitler continues trying to kill more Jewish people.
Event – Hitler attacks Hungary and captures most of Hungarian Jews.
Date – 1944
Biography - Again, Hitler attacks a country and tries to kill more Jewish people. Hitler transports 12,000 Hungarian Jewish People to Auschwitz where they are killed.
12. Impact of Events – World War Two ends. The remaining Jewish people like, Itka, are freed and transported to displaced persons facilities.
Event – Hitler is defeated and the Holocaust is finally over.
Date – 1945
Biography – Troops from major European countries defeated Hitler and the Nazi party. Itka is freed. The death camps are cleaned out and emptied.
13. Impact of Events – The Nazis is prosecuted for war crimes of the Holocaust and Justice is served.
Event – An International Military Tribunal (or court) is created by Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union. The court meets in Nuremburg and the Nazis are put on trial for their crimes.
Date – 1946
Biography – The Nazis are punished for their crimes and justice is served. The Nazis will pay for all the carnage and deceased people they called.
14. Impact of Events – The U.N. feels that the Jewish people should have a land for themselves where they can live in harmony.
Event – The U.N. gives the Jewish people the British Controlled Palestine.
Date – 1947
Biography – There were a lot of Jewish people who were displaced from their homes. After World War Two ended, the Jewish people had nowhere to go. So the U.N wanted to gave them a place to go. So in 1948, the land was officially granted to the Jewish people. This is now a part of Israel.