Holocaust and the Ten Commandments

Holocaust Timeline

1933

March 22- The first concentration camp, Dachau, located near Munich, Germany.

April 1- The Jewish shops and business were boycotted, per the request of the Nazis.  

May 10- Books were burned in Berlin and throughout Germany that were written by Jewish authors or anyone who didn’t support the Nazis.

July 14- Nazi became the only legal political party in Germany.

July- anyone with genetic defects was forced to be sterilized.  

September- October- Laws were passed to start limiting Jews and the rights that they had.

1934

January 24- Jews were banned on the German Labor Front.

May 17, Jews were denied national health insurance.

August 2- The German president dies and Hitler becomes Fuhrer.

1935

September 15- Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews was declared.

1936

March 7- Nazis get to occupy the Rhineland.

August 1- The persecution of the Jews were refrained due to the Olympic games.

1937

January- Jews were banned from practicing many different professions.

November 8- Anti-Jewish exhibits were open to increase the propaganda against them.

1938

July 23- Any Jew over the age of 15 had to apply for an identity card from the police, to be shown on demand from any police officer.

August 11- Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.

August 17- Men had to add the name Israel and the women had to add Sarah, to all legal documents they had.

November 9, 10- Kristallnacht

1939

September 1- Nazis invade Poland

September 3- Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.

1940

February 12- The very first deportation of German Jews into Poland

1941

March 7- German Jews were forced into labor.

1943

January 18- First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto        

1944

June 6- D-Day

1945

April 30- Americans free 33,000 inmates from the concentration camps

Many terms used during the time of the Holocaust.

-Antisemitism

      ·The hatred of Jews

  

-Concentration Camp

      ·A place where political prisoners were held, also any one that society saw as unfit. The Nazi party especially put this into practice.  

       

-Deportation

      ·Expelling a person from their homes/native land. This is when the Jews were forced out of their homes and into concentration camps.    

     

-Genocide

      ·The deliberate killing of a large group of people, usually from one specific ethnic group.

         

-Ghetto

      ·Part of the city where minorities live, usually a slum.

-Holocaust

      · Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale. This happens to the Jews during WW2 

-Kristallnacht

. Night of the broken glass, this is the night(s) that Jewish synagogues, homes, and businesses were burned to the ground or destroyed.

The Holocaust was a horrible even that has taken place in history. Many evils took place the people that have participated in the Holocaust have broken many commandments that were given to us by God and therefore have sinned. The people that participated in the Holocaust have broken the 6^th, 8^th, and 9^th commandments that were given to us by God.    

6^th Commandment: You shall not murder. People relentlessly killed Jews because they saw them as an inferior race.

8^th Commandment: You shall not steal. The Nazi party ripped away people’s homes, business, and places of worship, their basic human rights, and their lives. They stole everything away from them.

9^th Commandment: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. The people that have known these people that were getting sent away to concentration camps turned the cheek and pretended not to see what was happening.