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Place in Germany

What happened to the Jews in Berlin

69 events, 1295 AD to 2025 AD

13th century

  1. 1295 AD Berlin council bars wool merchants from supplying Jews · Berlin, Germany

14th century

  1. 1349 AD Black Death Jewish persecutions · Berlin, Germany
  2. 1350 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Berlin during the Black Death · Berlin, Germany
  3. 1354 AD Jews permitted to return to Berlin · Berlin, Germany

15th century

  1. 1500 AD Ritual libel at Berlin · Berlin, Germany

16th century

  1. 1509 AD Host libel trial and burning of Jews; expulsion from Brandenburg · Berlin, Germany
  2. 1509 AD Violence against Jews in Spandau, Brandenburg · Spandau, Germany
  3. 1510 AD 38 Jews burned at the stake in Berlin · Berlin, Germany
  4. c. 1510 AD General expulsion of Jews after the Bernau executions · Berlin, Germany
  5. 1543 AD Jews permitted to reside in Berlin again · Berlin, Germany
  6. 1571 AD Expulsion of Jews from Berlin · Berlin, Germany
  7. 1573 AD Trial and execution of the court Jew Lippold · Berlin, Germany

17th century

  1. 1671 AD Decree restricting new Jewish settlement in Berlin · Berlin, Germany
  2. 1684–1700 AD Restrictions on Berlin Jews' trade and numbers, collective tax liability · Berlin, Germany
  3. 1688 AD Doubling of protection tax and other exactions on Jews · Berlin, Germany
  4. 1697 AD Ban on Jewish land ownership · Berlin, Germany
  5. 1700 AD Edict against the'Alenu prayer · Berlin, Germany

18th century

  1. 1703 AD Edict regulating the recitation of'Alenu · Berlin, Germany
  2. 1714 AD Charter limiting tolerated Jews to 120 householders · Berlin, Germany
  3. 1714 AD Frederick William I revokes the 1700 restrictions on Berlin Jews · Berlin, Germany
  4. 1716 AD Berlin merchant guild bars Jews from membership · Berlin, Germany
  5. 1721 AD Berlin Jewish community held liable for Levin Veit's debt and put under ban · Berlin, Germany
  6. 1721 AD Berlin Jews confined in synagogue over Levin Veit's bankruptcy · Berlin, Germany
  7. 1730 AD General-privilegium caps Berlin Jewish families at 120 · Berlin, Germany
  8. 1737 AD Berlin Jews forced out of their houses into barracks · Berlin, Germany
  9. 1737 AD Expulsion of excess Jewish families from Berlin · Berlin, Germany
  10. 1740–1786 AD Frederick the Great limits residence rights of Jewish children · Berlin, Germany
  11. 1747 AD Frederick the Great limits residence right to one child per family · Berlin, Germany
  12. 1750–1756 AD Law dividing Jews into ordinary and extraordinary classes · Berlin, Germany
  13. 1757 AD No new privileges for Jews unless they start factories · Berlin, Germany
  14. 1763 AD Berlin Jews allowed to acquire 70 houses instead of 40 · Berlin, Germany
  15. 1763–1764 AD Compulsory silver deliveries, protection fees and porcelain purchases · Berlin, Germany
  16. 1769 AD Elders held liable for theft by a community member · Berlin, Germany
  17. 1784 AD Communal responsibility extended to bankruptcies · Berlin, Germany
  18. 1791 AD Itzig family granted full civic rights · Berlin, Germany

19th century

  1. 1809 AD Municipal Act eases Jewish citizenship in Berlin · Berlin, Germany
  2. 1812 AD Edict of 1812 emancipating Prussian Jews · Berlin, Germany
  3. 1817 AD Royal order closes private synagogues in Berlin · Berlin, Germany
  4. 1823 AD Royal order restricts Jewish worship to the old ritual · Berlin, Germany
  5. 1860 AD Formal civic equality granted to Jews in Prussia · Berlin, Germany

20th century

  1. 1923 AD Antisemitic attack on Jews of Grenadierstrasse and Dragonerstrasse · Berlin, Germany
  2. 1931 AD Nazi assault on Jews leaving synagogue on Kurfuerstendam · Berlin, Germany
  3. 1931 AD Political unrest in the late phase of the Weimar Republic · Charlottenburg, Germany
  4. 1933 AD "Bloody Sunday" riots in Berlin · Berlin, Germany
  5. 1933 AD 2 December 1933 Berlin court forbids Oppenheimers to perform any legal transactions for the Margraf group · Berlin, Germany
  6. 1933 AD Law against non-Aryans leads to dismissals · Berlin, Germany
  7. 1933 AD Murder of Dr. Philippsthal · Berlin, Germany
  8. 1933 AD Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses · Berlin, Germany
  9. 1935 AD Kurfürstendamm riot of 1935 · Berlin, Germany
  10. 1935 AD Segregated yellow benches and "Jews not wanted" signs · Berlin, Germany
  11. 1936 AD Berlin Olympics showcase the Nazi state · Berlin, Germany
  12. 1936 AD Expulsion of Jews from Greater Berlin · Berlin, Germany
  13. 1938 AD Bannmeile restricts Jews and evictions · Berlin, Germany
  14. 1938 AD Berlin Jewish community stripped of public corporate status · Berlin, Germany
  15. 1938 AD Berlin bans Jews and confiscates their driving licenses · Berlin, Germany
  16. 1938 AD Mass arrests of "asocial" Jews · Berlin, Germany
  17. 1939 AD Formation of the Nazi-imposed Reichsvereinigung · Berlin, Germany
  18. 1939 AD Gestapo establishes Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration · Berlin, Germany
  19. 1940 AD Labor Exchange for Jew-Workers set up in Berlin · Berlin, Germany
  20. 1941 AD Gestapo orders evacuations, restricted zones and assembly camps · Berlin, Germany
  21. 1941 AD Legal Jewish emigration from Berlin prohibited · Berlin, Germany
  22. 1941 AD Yellow badge introduced for Berlin Jews · Berlin, Germany
  23. 1941–1945 AD Deportations of Berlin's Jews to ghettos and death camps · Berlin, Germany
  24. 1942 AD Reprisal shootings after Baum group attack · Berlin, Germany
  25. 1942 AD Wannsee Conference · Berlin, Germany
  26. 1943 AD Berlin Jewish community offices closed and leaders deported · Berlin, Germany
  27. 1943 AD Fabrikaktion roundup of Jewish factory workers in Berlin · Berlin, Germany
  28. 1982 AD 1982 Berlin restaurant bombing · Berlin, Germany

21st century

  1. 2025 AD Berlin Holocaust memorial stabbing · Berlin, Germany

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