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The life of Herbert Baum

By 22heimsam@blraiders.org

  • Herbert Baum is born

    Herbert Baum is born
    Herbert Baum is born on February 10,1912 in Moschin,Province of Posen.

  • Moving

    Moving
    Herbert Baum moves to Berlin.

  • clubs

    clubs
    He becomes head of the German-Jewish youth group Ring-Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend.

  • job

    job
    Herbert gets a job as a electrician.

  • communism

    communism
    He joins the communist youth federation in 1931.

  • concentration camps

    concentration camps
    The SS establishes the Dachau concentration camp in March 1933.

  • Boycott

    Boycott
    Members of the Nazi Party and its affiliated organizations organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.

  • School laws

    School laws
    The Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limits the number of Jewish students in public schools.

  • New president

    New president
    Adolf Hitler becomes president of Germany.

  • Banned

    Banned
    He began to attend evening classes at the Beuth Academy to qualify as an electrical engineer,but he was banned from attending anymore classes in 1935 because he was Jewish.

  • anti jewish laws

    anti jewish laws
    The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 herald a new wave of antisemitic legislation that brings immediate and concrete segregation.

  • Marriage

    Marriage
    He married Marianne Baum in 1936.

  • A big camp

    A big camp
    Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937.

  • passports

    passports
    The Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidates all German passports held by Jews. Jews must surrender their old passports, which will become valid only after the letter “J” has been stamped on them.

  • Closing time

    Closing time
    A new German decree closes all Jewish-owned businesses

  • arrested

    arrested
    In 1940,Baum was rounded up and forced into slave labor at the works of the Siemens-Schuckertwerke.

  • Rebelion

    Rebelion
    He headed a group of Jewish slave laborers at the plant,who,to escape deportation to concentration camps,went into the Berlin underground.

  • Arson

    Arson
    Herbert and his group organised an arson attack on an anti communist and anti-Semitic-propaganda exhibition prepared by Joseph Goebbels at the Berliner Lustgartens.

  • caught

    caught
    rHe and his wife were arrested along with the other members of the Jewish rebels were arrested and taken to extermination camps.

  • Death

    Death
    Herbert Baum was tortured to death in Moabit Prison,dying on June 11,1942.