Walk in My Shoes: Collected Memories of the Holocaust

The Jewish Ghetto

Never Forget: Visions of the Nazi Camps

Persecution and Flight: The Nazi Campaign Against the Jews
 

World Holocaust Memorials
 

ERC Center: Holocaust

Between 1935 and 1936 persecution of the Jews in Europe increased apace while the process of "Gleichschaltung"  was implemented. In May 1935, Jews were forbidden to join the Wehrmacht (the army), and in the summer of the same year, anti-Semitic propaganda appeared in shops and restaurants. The Nuremberg Laws were passed around the time of the great Nazi rallies at Nuremberg; on September 15, 1935 the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor" was passed, preventing marriage between any Jew and Gentile.

These were just a few of the many acts that contributed to the persecution of the Jew, that caused thousands of them to flee their homes in Europe for safer havens. Ultimately, this persecution culminated in the Holocaust.

"Persecution and Flight: The Nazi Campaign Against the Jews," while by no means an academic study of this topic, includes a number of representations of the events that befell the Jewish people and should be of interest to many.

Please be sure to visit the Museum's new sister exhibitions about the Jewish ghettos and the Nazi camps.