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When he took over
He started taking over in 1933 and started tricking everybody -
Adolf Hitler addresses an SA rally
SA men paraded with torches through Berlin to celebrate Hitler's appointment as chancellor. -
Boycott of Jewish-owned businesses
Members of the Storm Troopers with boycott signs, block the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop. -
Photograph of Dawid Samoszul
Close-up street portrait of Dawid Samoszul, probably taken in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, between 1936 and 1938. Dawid was killed in the Treblinka killing center at the age of 9. -
Life in the Ghettos
Both of Charlene's parents were local Jewish community leaders, and the family was active in community life. Charlene's father was a professor of philosophy at the State University of Lvov. -
The Beginning of it all
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. -
Young girls pose in a yard in the town of Ejszyszki.
German units carried out mass shootings on the outskirts of villages, towns, and cities throughout eastern Europe. -
The End
Among the thousands of books that have examined various aspects of the Jewish Holocaust, surprisingly few have treated the final days of the death camps in any detail.