What happened to the Jews in 1933 AD?

American Jewish Congress announces boycott of German goods

To protest Nazi persecution of Jews, the American Jewish Congress called a boycott of German products.

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American Jewish Congress

American Jewish Congress boycotts Nazi Germany

The American Jewish Congress proclaimed a boycott of Nazi Germany.

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American Jewish Congress

Anti-Jewish boycott begins as Karstadt fires Jewish employees

Before the nationwide boycott of April 1933, the Karstadt department store in Hanover dismissed all of its Jewish employees.

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Karstadt Department Store

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Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Anti-Jewish measures in National Health Service

The Decree Licensing Physicians from the National Health Service passed on the pressure of Dr. Gerhard Wagner excludes Jewish doctors from medical service.

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Unknown

Where

Germany

Aryanization of Jewish businesses and dismissal of Jewish workers in Essen

Under Nazi rule, Jewish businesses were taken over and Jewish employees were dismissed, including Benno Schmidt, who was fired by Krupp.

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Nazis

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Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Bernheim Petition to the League of Nations

Representatives of the Comité des Délégations Juives submitted the Bernheim Petition to the League of Nations against Germany's anti-Jewish laws, named after the imprisoned Silesian Jew Franz Bernheim.

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Unknown

Boycott of Jewish enterprises in Pforzheim

With the rise of Nazism, Jewish businesses were boycotted, pushing the community toward emigration.

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Nazis

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Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Campaign against Jews and restrictions on movement in Afghanistan

A campaign against Jews began, including a ban on leaving a town without a permit, a yearly poll tax, and exclusion from government service, government schools and certain livelihoods.

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Afghan government

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Afghanistan

Dismissal of Jews from public office and cultural institutions

Jews working in public office, including eight jurists, and in cultural institutions were dismissed.

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Nazi authorities

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Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany

Economic boycott and social ostracism by Transylvanian Fascist organizations

Transylvanian Fascist groups associated with the German population subjected Jews to an economic boycott and social ostracism, though without taking active violent measures.

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Transylvanian German Fascist organizations

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Transylvania, Romania

Endecja antisemitic campaign and boycott attempts in Kalisz

From 1933 the Endecja party intensified antisemitic propaganda and repeatedly tried to impose an economic boycott on Jewish businesses and artisans.

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Endecja party

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Kalisz, Greater Poland, Poland

German Jews and Germans with any Jewish ancestry dating to 1800 are banned from farming under the Reichserbhofgesetz, and their land is redistributed to ethnic Germans.

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Reichserbhofgesetz

German law restricts Jewish school enrollment

The Law for Preventing Overcrowding in German Schools and Schools of Higher Education came into force, limiting how many Jews could enroll. Comparable informal discrimination against Jews was already practiced in the United States.

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Unknown

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United States

German trade unions banned and replaced by the German Labor Front under the leadership of Robert Ley.

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German Labor Front

Germany launches anti-Jewish boycott

Germany started a boycott against Jews.

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Unknown

Germany revokes citizenship of Eastern European Jews

Under the Law Regarding Revocation of Naturalization and the Annulment of German Citizenship, Eastern European Jews and Gypsies residing in Germany lost their German citizenship.

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Unknown

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Eastern European Jews

Hanns Kerrl and Hans Frank issue legislation in the states of Prussia and Bavaria dismissing Jewish judges and prosecutors and imposing quotas for lawyers and notaries.

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Unknown

Hitler bars German Jews from farming

Hitler signed the decree banning German Jews from working as farmers.

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Nazi Germany

Jewish professors dismissed from Heidelberg University

Under the April 7 law Jews were expelled from the civil service, resulting in the dismissal of 34 Jewish professors.

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Nazi government

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Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Jews are prohibited from journalism under the Editor Law

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Editor Law

Jews barred from Cottbus annual fair and ousted from trade unions

From May 1933 Jews were forbidden to take part in the city's annual fair, and in June Jewish employees were expelled from trade unions and lost their jobs.

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Nazi authorities

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Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany

Jews expelled from the civil service

Nazi legislation defined "non-Aryans" and removed Jews from the civil service, including judges, physicians and professors, beginning their systematic exclusion from professions.

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Nazi government

Where

Germany

Law against non-Aryans leads to dismissals

Legislation of April 7 caused the dismissal of Jewish professionals and civil servants, including physicians and professors.

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Nazi government

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Berlin, Germany

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, banning most Jews and Communists from government employment, is passed. Shortly after, a similar law affects lawyers, doctors, tax consultants, musicians, and notaries.

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Unknown

Nazi boycott and harassment of Koblenz Jews

The Nazis began boycotting Jewish stores and harassing Jews in other ways.

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Nazi regime

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Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses

The Nazi regime organized a boycott on April 1 that hit Jewish shop owners.

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Nazi government

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Berlin, Germany

Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses begins

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Nazi Germany

Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in Dortmund

The boycott of Jewish businesses was rigorously enforced in Dortmund and continued beyond April 1, 1933.

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Nazi regime

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Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Nazi restrictions, boycott and attacks on Heilbronn Jews

After the Nazi rise to power, Jews in Heilbronn faced restrictions, discrimination, a boycott of their goods, press agitation and occasional physical attacks.

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Nazi regime

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Heilbronn, Württemberg, Germany

Nazis ban kosher slaughter

The Nazis made kosher slaughter of animals illegal.

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Nazi Germany

Reich Chamber of Culture excludes Jewish artists

The Reich Chamber of Culture was created, and the Reich Culture Ministry Law shut Jewish writers and artists out.

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Unknown

Special entrance examinations to fail Jewish candidates in Romania

Romanian universities introduced special entrance examinations on which Jewish candidates were deliberately failed, so that very few Jews were admitted.

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Romanian universities

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Romania

The American Jewish Congress begins the Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933

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Nazi Germany

The German government decrees that all Jewish workers and employees of the German armed forces (Reichswehr) be dismissed from service.

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German government

The Reich Chamber of Culture is established, effectively barring Jews from the arts.

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Unknown

World Jewish Congress calls global boycott of Germany

Meeting in Geneva, the Second World Jewish Congress decided to organize a worldwide boycott of Germany.

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Unknown

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Geneva, Switzerland

Nazi economic boycott and Aryanization of Krefeld Jewish firms

The Nazi economic boycott led to all Jewish-owned firms being taken over by non-Jews.

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Nazis

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Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Aryanization of Jewish businesses in Leipzig

By 1938 about 1,600 Jewish businesses in Leipzig had been taken over in the Nazi aryanization process.

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Nazi regime

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Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Jewish children expelled from German public schools

Jewish pupils were removed from public schools and Jewish teachers were dismissed, forcing the community to set up its own schools.

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Nazi German authorities

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Germany

Nazi terror, discrimination and boycotts against Munich Jews

After the Nazi seizure of power, Munich Jewry suffered continuous desecration, discrimination, terror and boycotts.

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Nazi regime

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Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Nazi persecution drives Jews from Germany and Austria

After the Nazi Party took power in 1933, persecution forced very large numbers of Jews from Germany and Austria into exile.

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Nazi Party

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Germany · Austria

Anti-Jewish measures in Germany

Persecution of Jews in Germany rises until they are stripped of their rights not only as citizens, but also as human beings. During this time antisemitism reached its all-time high.

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S.A

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Germany

"Jewish benches" introduced in Polish universities

In the last years before World War II, Polish academic authorities assigned Jewish students separate benches at the back of lecture halls, leading to clashes.

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Polish academic authorities

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Poland

Canada bars Jewish refugees in the 1930s

Despite desperate appeals from Jewish refugees and organizations, the Canadian government kept Jews out under a policy summed up by the phrase "none is too many."

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Canadian government

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Canada

South African immigration restrictions aimed at Jewish refugees

Faced with agitation over refugees from Nazi Germany, South Africa introduced immigration restrictions intended to reduce Jewish arrivals, though without naming Jews in the laws.

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South African government

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South Africa

Latin American restrictions on Jewish immigration

Latin American governments imposed economic, political, racial and religious restrictions to limit Jewish immigration during the Nazi era, tightening sharply from 1940.

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Latin American governments

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Latin America (several countries)

Persecution of Kurdish Jews amid anti-Zionist propaganda in Iraq

Following the start of anti-Zionist propaganda in Iraq in 1925, persecution of Kurdish Jews intensified, peaking during the Rashid Ali revolt of 1941.

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Unknown

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Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Brazil restricts immigration of Jewish refugees from Europe

Brazilian officials, with Oswaldo Aranha instrumental as minister and wartime foreign minister, limited the entry of Jewish refugees fleeing Europe.

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Brazilian government (Oswaldo Aranha)

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Brazil