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  • From 1933 In many cases persecution and, as far as possible, exile all over the world.
  • September 15, 1935: The National Socialists pass the “Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor” and the Nuremberg Laws in Nuremberg. In addition to their well-known ideological positions, they thus now also create the legal conditions for the intensified persecution and imprisonment of Jewish fellow citizens, culminating in the Holocaust.
  • November 9, 1938 November pogroms: synagogues and Jewish prayer rooms in Germany and Austria are burned down, Jewish businesses destroyed.
  • January 20, 1942: The “Wannsee Conference” decides on the complete annihilation of Jews, Jewry and Jewish life and the procedures for mass killing.
  • January 27, 1945: Three months before the surrender of the German Reich, Soviet soldiers liberate the prisoners in the Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. The world learns comprehensively of the mass murder.
  • November 20, 1945: Start of the Nuremberg Main War Crimes Trial and of war crimes trials until April 17, 1949: Some of the perpetrators of Nazi terror are held accountable and sentenced before an international court.
  • May 14, 1948: Foundation of the State of Israel.
  • July 19, 1950: Foundation of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, after Jewish life in Germany began to develop again, first hesitantly and then gradually, after the end of World War II.
  • April 11 – December 15, 1961: The trial of the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann before the Jerusalem District Court presents the murder in the concentration camps to the world public as a breach of civilization of unprecedented magnitude.
  • December 20, 1963 – August 19, 1965: In the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, almost 20 years after the end of the war, crimes against humanity are prosecuted in a German court and the perpetrators are convicted.
  • June 1982: The Center for Research on Anti-Semitism (ZfA) is founded at the Technical University of Berlin.
  • From 1991: After the collapse of the Soviet Union, many Eastern European Jews came to Germany.
  • October 9, 2019: Right-wing extremist terrorist attack on the synagogue in Halle/Saale.
  • December 21, 2020: The perpetrator was sentenced to life in prison followed by preventive detention.