Timeline: Jayde Holocaust

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler gets put in charge

Hitler becomes chancellor

Apr 1, 1933

Boycott of Jewish owned businesses

Members of the Storm Troopers (SA), with boycott signs, block the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop. One of the signs exhorts: "Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!" Berlin, Germany.

May 15, 1934

An early concentration camp

Many of the early concentration camps were improvised. Here, roll call is held for political prisoners aboard a ship used as a floating concentration camp. Ochstumsand camp, near Bremen, Germany

Apr 1, 1935

Race Laws

In the fall of 1935, German Jews lost their citizenship according to the definitions posed in these new regulations. Only "full" Germans were entitled to the full protection of the law. This chart was used to aid Germans in understanding the laws. White circles represent "Aryan" Germans, black circles represent Jews, and partially shaded circles represent “mixed raced” individuals. The chart has columns explaining the "Deutschbluetiger" [German-bloods],

Oct 13, 1939

A destitute child in the Warsaw ghetto

An emaciated child eats in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto. Warsaw, Poland.

Jan 25, 1940

One of the people the were killed in the gas chambers

Helene was one of 9,772 persons gassed that year in the Brandenburg "euthanasia" center. She was officially listed as dying in her room of "acute schizophrenic excitement."

Sep 20, 1941

Transportation

Jews are forced into boxcars for deportation to the Belzec killing center.

Sep 21, 1941

Little girls that got killed

A group of young girls poses in a yard in the town of Ejszyszki (Eishyshok). The Jews of this shtetl were murdered by the Einsatzgruppen on September 21, 1941. Photo taken before September 1941.