What happened to the Jews in 1936 AD?

Berlin Olympics showcase the Nazi state

Berlin hosted the Summer Olympic Games, giving the world its first carefully staged view of the Third Reich; the Games proved a propaganda triumph for the Nazis.

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Nazi Germany

Where

Berlin, Germany

Cardinal Hlond's pastoral letter urges discrimination

August Cardinal Hlond, head of Poland's Catholic Church, seen as less hostile to Jews than many Polish priests and loyal to Vatican policy, issued a pastoral letter endorsing unequal treatment of Poland's Jews "so long as they remain Jews," urging Catholics to wall themselves off from Jewish moral influence and "anti-Christian culture."

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Cardinal Hlond

Chile tightens immigration restrictions affecting Jews

Amid unemployment and right-wing opposition to Jewish and Republican Spanish refugees, Chile imposed stricter limits on immigration.

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Chilean government

Where

Chile

Expulsion of Jewish children from public schools in Worms

Under Nazi rule Jewish children were expelled from the public school, leading to the founding of a Jewish school in 1936.

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Nazi authorities

Where

Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

German Jewish doctors are banned from practicing on German patients

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Unknown

Goebbels bans film criticism

Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels outlawed film criticism, giving the Nazi-run German film industry free rein for its agenda, openly antisemitic films included.

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Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels

Italian fascist measures against Libyan Jews, forced Sabbath trading

Italian authorities began enforcing fascist legislation, especially in Tripoli. Jews were compelled to keep shops open on the Sabbath, and those who refused were punished, jailed or publicly whipped.

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Italian authorities

Where

Tripoli, Libya

Jewish children barred from public schools in Ulm

Jewish children were excluded from public schools, and a separate Jewish school was set up.

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Nazi authorities

Where

Ulm, Württemberg, Germany

Jewish community forced to set up its own school

The Heilbronn Jewish community was compelled to establish its own elementary school.

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Nazi regime

Where

Heilbronn, Württemberg, Germany

Jewish doctors barred from German public health institutions

Jewish physicians were banned from working in Germany's public health institutions.

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Unknown

Jewish pupils expelled from Italian high schools in Libya

Jewish students were expelled from Italian high schools because they would not attend classes on the Sabbath. The community then opened a private Jewish high school in Tripoli.

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Italian authorities

Where

Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya

Jewish students excluded from Kaunas University medical faculty

An unofficial numerus clausus came to operate in the medical faculty of Kaunas University. By 1936 no Jewish medical student was admitted.

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Kaunas University

Where

Kaunas, Lithuania

Quebec removes Jewish exemption from Sunday Observance Act

Quebec withdrew the exemption that had allowed Jews to be excused from the Sunday Observance Act, increasing the community's insecurity.

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Government of Quebec

Where

Quebec, Canada

Quota of 50 Jewish families limited to agriculture

The government allowed only 50 Jewish families a year to enter Chile, and only if they worked in agriculture.

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Chilean government

Where

Chile

Romanian state subvention for Jewish religious needs cut

The Romanian government moved to end state funding for Jewish religious needs and tax exemptions for Jewish community institutions. The subvention was eventually reduced to one-sixth of its original amount.

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Romanian government

Where

Romania

University numerus clausus and violence against Jewish students

Iron Guard students physically blocked Jewish students from lectures, and the universities introduced entrance exams. Jewish enrollment fell sharply, to nothing in some faculties.

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Iron Guard students and university authorities

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Romania

Confiscation and forced sale of Jewish businesses (Arianisierung)

Jewish capital was increasingly confiscated and Jewish enterprises forced into sale, accompanied by arrests and other anti-Jewish measures.

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Nazi government

Where

Germany

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

Where

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

Where

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

Where

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

Where

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

Where

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

Where

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

Where

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

Where

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

Where

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

Where

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

Where

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)

Where

Brazil