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Remember

[Star of David]

In Sacred

Memory

Of The

6,000,000

(Map Included)

(Left Panel)

During the Holocaust, 1933 - 45, six million European Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany and its

collaborators. Millions more of the innocent suffered

persecution and death as victims of the State-sponsored Nazi Tyranny.

1920 League Of Nations meets in Geneva.

         Nazi Party meets in Munich.

1925 Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf is  published.

1927 Jewish cemeteries in Germany are desecrated

         by Nazis.

1928 Nazis win 12 Reichstag seats.

1932 Nazis establish the faith movement of German

         Christians- Nationalistic, anti Catholic, anti

         Semitic, and Anti- marxist. Nazis win 230    

         Reichstag seats.

1933 Concentration camp is established at Dachau.

         Hitler is appointed Chancellor.

         German Government institutes boycott of Jewish

         lawyers, doctors, and merchants.

         Jews and other non-Aryans are banned from

         jobs in law and civil service, as well as jobs

         in music, art, broadcasting, theater, and farming.

         Quota for Jews are begun in education. The

         Gestapo is established. Nazi Party is declared

         the only legal political party.

1934 Anne Frank's family moves from Frankfort to

         Amsterdam. Hitler assumes presidential power,

         orders buildup of armed forces. Nazis begin

         persecution of homosexuals.

1935 Nuremberg laws are enacted, depriving Jews

         of citizenship.

1936 Nazis reoccupy the Rhineland. A 25-percent

         tax is placed on all Jewish assets.

1937 Buchenwald concentration camp is established.

1938 German-Austrian Anschluss is created.

         Czechoslovakia is divided. England, France

         and Italy appease Hitler. Anti-Jewish pogrom

         Kristallnacht is carried out in Germany

         and Austria. Nazis expropriate Jewish property.

1939 At the Evian Conference, 29 nations refuse to

         take in additional Jewish refugees. British

         "White Paper" limits Jewish refugees into

         Palestine. World War II begins, Nazis and

         Soviets invade Poland. Jews are forced to

         wear the yellow star. Nazis establish Jewish

         ghettos in Poland. 6,000 Jehovah's Witnesses

         are held in concentration camps. Nazis

         deport German Romanies (Gypsies).

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1940 Denmark, Norway, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium

         France and Romania fall. Auschwitz concentration

         camp is established. German bombers blitz

         England. Berlin-Rome- Tokyo Axis is formed

         Warsaw ghetto is established.

1941 Nazis invade Soviet Union. Nazis plan "Final

         Solution To The Jewish Problem." Mass

         murder of 33,000 Jews take place at Babi Yar.

         United States enters World War II.

1942 Wannsee Conference is held to ensure

         interagency cooperation in the extermination

         of the Jews. Anne Frank's family goes into

         hiding in Amsterdam. Death camps are

         established in the Polish villages of Belzec,

         Sobibor, and Treblinka. Gassings begin at

         Auschwitz and Maidanek in Poland.

1943 Greek Jews are deported to Auschwitz.

         Jews revolt in Warsaw ghetto and in

         Treblinka and Sobibor. United Nations

         War Crimes Commission is created.

1944 Anne Frank's family is arrested. Hungarian

         Jews are deported to Auschwitz. Soviet

         troops advance. Death marches begin.

         Lodz, the last ghetto, is liquidated.

         Jewish sonderkommando revolt at

         Auschwitz. Allies invade Normandy

         on D-Day, June 6. Allied troops enter Rome,

         Paris and Brussels. The Battle of the Bulge

         begins December 16. Nazis force American

         POWS and Jews into slave labor.

1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau

         and Maidanek. Anne Frank dies of Typhus

         shortly before the British liberate Bergen-

         Belsen. American troops liberate Dachau.

         Hitler commits suicide in Berlin. Germany

         signs unconditional surrender. Japan

         surrenders. War-crimes trials begin

         in Nuremberg. Anti-Jewish riots erupt in

         Krakow.

1946 Jewish leaders are tortured and murdered

         near Krakow and Lodz. Pogrom erupts in

         Kielce, Poland, with 42 killed. Anti-Semitism

         continues. 100,000 Polish Jews leave their

         homeland.

This map depicts the location of the

Death and Concentration Camps

where the Nazi Germans implented

their "Final Solution,"

the murder of 6,000,000 Jews.

(Rear Left Panel)

I have never felt able to describe my emotional reactions when I first came face to face with indisputable evidence of Nazi

brutality and ruthless disregard of every shred of decency...

I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of things if ever, in the future, there

develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda.'

—General Dwight D. Eisenhower,

   Supreme Commander of the Allied

   Forces in Europe, 1945

South Carolina Liberators

[list of 44 names]

(Rear Right Panel)

I believe in the sun, even when it does not shine,

I believe in love, even when it is not shown.

I believe in God, even when he does not speak.

— Inscribed on a wall by a Holocaust victim

South Carolina Holocaust Survivors

[Three Columns 87 names]

Marker is on Hampton Street near Wayne Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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