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Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew. Anschluss incorporation of Austria : all antisemitic decrees immediately applied in Austria. Adolf Eichmann establishes the Office of Jewish Emigration in Vienna to increase the pace of forced emigration. Following request by Swiss authorities, Germans mark all Jewish passports with a large letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigrating to Switzerland. Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass : anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; synagogues destroyed; 7, Jewish shops looted; 30, male Jews sent to concentration camps Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen.

One billion Marks fine levied against German Jews for the destruction of property during Kristallnacht. This article was originally published in February Haaretz Jan. Updated: Jan. Get email notification for articles from Haaretz Follow.

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Gay Haredim Turn to Her for Help. Sometimes She Prescribes Chemical Castration. Israel Could Soon Reopen to Tourists. Submission of a bill to permit entry of 20, refugee children into the United States. The St. SS authorities establish the largest concentration camp complex of the Nazi regime. The back of this Polish Jew's visa bears witness to the vast array of bureaucratic stamps and visas needed to emigrate from Europe in — The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over ten feet high, topped with barbed wire.

Across Nazi-occupied territory, many Jews engaged in acts of spiritual and intellectual defiance. Heinrich Himmler inspects Soviet prisoners of war at a German camp in occupied Belarus. In Drancy, France, German authorities open an internment and transit camp for Jews.

Responding in part to public protests, Hitler orders the cessation of centrally coordinated murder of the disabled. All Jews over six years of age in the Reich, Alsace, Bohemia-Moravia and the German—annexed territory of western Poland called the Warthegau are ordered to wear an identifying badge. An SS officer submits his report on the mass killing of Jewish civilians in the northwestern region of the Soviet Union.