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It was the eighth night of Chanukah in Kiel, Germany, a small town with a Jewish population of 500. That year, 1931, the last night Chanukah fell on Friday evening, and Rabbi Akiva Boruch Posner, spiritual leader of the town was hurrying to light the Menorah before the Shabbat set in.
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Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany
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The first concentration camp was opened at Dachau in Germany
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Germans were told not to buy from Jewish shops or businesses
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An order was issued which prohibited Jewish people from having health insurance
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The Nuremberg Laws were introduced. These laws were designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship
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nschluss which joined Germany and Austria, Jews in Austria were persecuted and victimised.
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A night of extreme violence.Approximately 100 Jews were murdered,20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps.Hundreds of synagogues burned, and the Windows of Jewish shops all over Germany and Austria smashed
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Jews were made to pay one billion marks for the damage caused by Kristallnacht.
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An order was issued that stated that Jewish children should not be allowed to attend non-Jewish German schools
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Jews living in Austria and Czechoslovakia were sent to Poland
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Jews in Poland were forced to sew a yellow star onto their clothes so that they could be easily identified.
