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World War I devastated Europe.
In 1933, over 9 million Jews lived in Europe (1.7% of the total population)

German Jews numbered about 500,000 or less than 1% of the national population.

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Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, beginning the Nazi state.

Nazi Germany became a dictatorship that took away human rights - including the creation of concentration camps

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During these years, German Jews felt the effects of over 400 decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of their public and private lives.

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In 1939 Germany invaded Poland.

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Nazi Germany and its allies conquered much of Europe.

German officials stole Jewish property, in many places required Jews to wear identifying armbands, and established ghettos and forced-labor camps

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Nazi Germany began using local forces to carry out mass civilian murders.

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Nazi Germany intensified its pursuit of the “Final Solution” to murder all European Jews.

These years saw the organized deportation of millions of Jews to increasingly efficient killing centers using poison gas.

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Allied troops uncovered the full extent of crimes committed during the Holocaust.

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Germans and their collaborators had murdered six million European Jews as part of a systematic plan of genocide—the Holocaust.

Allied troops helped to liberate the concentration camps and found thousands of survivors—Jews and non-Jews.