Events leading up to the Holocaust

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses and Jews no longer have the right to vote.

Jan 1, 1935

The Night of broken Glass Kristalnacht

Dec 18, 1938

Kristalnacht over 30,000 Jews were arrested in this period of riots

Jews are forced into ghettos and are put into concentration camps.

Jan 1, 1940