Transcript September 29 th , 1933

‫ִיזְּכוֹר‬
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Chronology
Until words lose meaning
January
st
31
1933
Adolf Hitler is appointed
Chancellor of Germany
April 1st 1933
Boycott
May 10th 1933
Burning of books
September 29th, 1933 - Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land
October 4th, 1933 - Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors
January 24th, 1934 - Jews are banned from the German Labor Front
May 17th, 1934 - Jews not allowed national health insurance
July 22nd, 1934 - Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications
August 2nd, 1934 - Hitler becomes Fuehrer
May 21st, 1935 - Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military
September 15th, 1935 – Nuremberg Race Laws implemented
August 1st, 1936 - Olympic games begin in Berlin in spite of those events
In January 1937 - Jews are banned from many professional occupations
including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are
also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
April 26th, 1938 - Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property
July 6th, 1938 - Nazis prohibited Jews from trading and providing a variety of
specified commercial services
July 25th, 1938 - Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine
September 27th, 1938 - Jews are prohibited from all legal practices
October 5th, 1938 - Law requires Jewish passports to be stamped with a red "J."
Nov 9th 1938 - Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass. Nazis fine Jews one
billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht
January 30th 1939
“If the international Jewish
financiers in and outside Europe
should succeed in plunging the
nations once more into a world
war, then the result will not be
the Bolshevizing of the earth,
and thus the victory of Jewry,
but the annihilation of the
Jewish race in Europe!"
Adolf Hitler
In May 1939 -The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees,
is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and
returns to Europe.
All gates for massive escape are now shut.
January 25th, 1940 -Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland
near Krakow as site of new concentration camp
February 12th, 1940 -First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland
April 30, 1940 -The Lodz Ghetto in Poland is sealed off from the outside world
with 230,000 Jews locked inside and is the first in a very long list.
March 26th, 1941 -The German Army High Command gives approval on the
tasks of SS murder squads (Einsatzgruppen) in Poland .
In January 1942 – Gas is being used in Auschwitz for the first time.
Queue for gas chamber no. 4
Having failed selection in Auschwitz
Being moved to a cattle train
The Ghettos are quickly running out of food and medicine, while
inhabitants are systematically transported to the camps
Children in medical experiments ward, Auschwitz
At Birkenau
1944 onwards – Camps are liquidated by death marches or quick
executions. They are being moved away from the war front. Major
evidence concealment operation in progress.
April 4th 1945 – Ohrdruf in Germany is the first camp liberated by
the western alleys. A few days later Bergen Belsen is liberated by
the British army.
‫בּורה‬
ַּ ְ‫טֵ קֶ ס יוֹם הזִיּכַּ רוֹן לשוַֹאה ולג‬
Holocaust Remembrance Service
My Brother’s Keeper
“…I still believe,
in spite of
everything, that
people are truly
good at heart…”
Anna
Frank
Prior to Bergen Belsen
‫ִיזְּכוֹר‬
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This is the story of the tour of Poland,
and the reflections some of the students
wrote upon returning.
The Tour was enabled through Harold
House, and was heavily supported by
U.J.I.A and the Claims Conference
Committee.
“…I felt so much anger but I was also
proud to be standing there, wearing my
Kippah, having the freedom to walk out at
any time…”
Adam Goldstein
“…When my group recited Jewish songs
when walking out of Auschwitz I felt
victorious and unified. We beat them.
With our songs we beat Hitler…”
Mark Abrams
“…This is an essential thing that every
Jew should do in their lifetime. Pictures
and film cannot fully explain what I
saw…”
Adam Bernstein
“…I have learnt that people in the world
today must work together to combat
prejudice and racism. To stop something
as horrific as the Holocaust from ever
happening again…”
Johanna Bennett
“…The three day trip to Poland was one I
will definitely never, ever forget. From
start to finish it was a rollercoaster of
emotions…”
Melonee Morris
“…Visiting Poland made me appreciate
my freedom. Small things in life that I
worry about from day to day do not
matter…”
Nicola Messing
“…The sense of solidarity within the
group was overwhelming. Everyone had
the freedom to express themselves. We
all understood each other.…”
Naomi Charing
“…While singing “HATIKVA” another
group stopped, listened and joined in.
Strangers, people we don’t know, but
have one amazing thing in common with
us. Being Jewish…”
Simon Epsley
“…I assumed the sole purpose of the trip
was Auschwitz but realised there was
much more. We visited the Jewish
quarter of Krakow, the Ghetto, many
different Synagogues, Plaszow labour
camp, all added to the educational value
of the trip…”
Allan Lewis
“…Birds did sing and grass was green.
Were it not for the actions of humans this
place would have been just a field. A
normal piece in G-D’s earth… it was
human actions alone that created such a
huge plot spoiling a part of G-D’s
creation…”
Hannah Bradley
“…We must not
let this happen
again. It is our
duty…What
makes a person
“better” than the
other?...”
Dalia Goldstein
“…I thought that what we were doing was
Hitler's worst nightmare. We were Jews,
wondering freely in one of his
camps…The sense of pride I had for
being a Jew was overwhelming…”
Michael Cowan
“…I realised how much I take for granted
at home. I don’t even think twice about
things that were so important to the Jews
in the concentration camps like food,
clothes or even water…”
Olivia Caplan
“…I felt a great pride as we sang
HATIKVA in front of the Israeli flag in
Auschwitz. I felt more pride than I have
ever felt before…”
Steven Roskin
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