The Columbia (S.C.) Holocaust

<center><b>&#1494;&#1499;&#1512;&#1512; <br>Remember</b><br> [Star of David]<br> In Sacred <br> Memory<br> Of The<br> <b>6,000,000</b><br> (Map Included) </center><br><br> <i>(Left Panel)</i><br> <b>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.</b><br><br> 1920 League Of Nations meets in Geneva.<br>          Nazi Party meets in Munich. <br> 1925 Adolph Hitler's <i>Mein Kampf </i> is  published. <br> 1927 Jewish cemeteries in Germany are desecrated<br>          by Nazis. <br> 1928 Nazis win 12 Reichstag seats.<br> 1932 Nazis establish the faith movement of German<br>          Christians- Nationalistic, anti Catholic, anti<br>          Semitic, and Anti- marxist. Nazis win 230    <br>               Reichstag seats.<br><br> 1933 Concentration camp is established at Dachau.<br>          Hitler is appointed Chancellor.<br>          German Government institutes boycott of Jewish<br>          lawyers, doctors, and merchants.<br>          Jews and other non-Aryans are banned from<br>          jobs in law and civil service, as well as jobs<br>          in music, art, broadcasting, theater, and farming.<br>          Quota for Jews are begun in education. The<br>          Gestapo is established. Nazi Party is declared<br>          the only legal political party. <br> 1934 Anne Frank's family moves from Frankfort to<br>          Amsterdam. Hitler assumes presidential power,<br>          orders buildup of armed forces. Nazis begin<br>          persecution of homosexuals.<br> 1935 Nuremberg laws are enacted, depriving Jews<br>          of citizenship. <br> 1936 Nazis reoccupy the Rhineland. A 25-percent<br>          tax is placed on all Jewish assets.<br> 1937 Buchenwald concentration camp is established.<br> 1938 German-Austrian Anschluss is created.<br>          Czechoslovakia is divided. England, France<br>          and Italy appease Hitler. Anti-Jewish pogrom<br>          <i>Kristallnacht</i> is carried out in Germany<br>          and Austria. Nazis expropriate Jewish property.<br> 1939 At the Evian Conference, 29 nations refuse to<br>          take in additional Jewish refugees. British<br>          "White Paper" limits Jewish refugees into<br>          Palestine. World War II begins, Nazis and<br>          Soviets invade Poland. Jews are forced to<br>          wear the yellow star. Nazis establish Jewish<br>          ghettos in Poland. 6,000 Jehovah's Witnesses<br>          are held in concentration camps. Nazis<br>          deport German Romanies (Gypsies).<br><br> <i> (Right panel)</i><br> 1940 Denmark, Norway, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium<br>          France and Romania fall. Auschwitz concentration<br>          camp is established. German bombers blitz<br>          England. Berlin-Rome- Tokyo Axis is formed<br>          Warsaw ghetto is established.<br> 1941 Nazis invade Soviet Union. Nazis plan "Final<br>          Solution To The Jewish Problem." Mass<br>          murder of 33,000 Jews take place at Babi Yar.<br>          United States enters World War II.<br> 1942 Wannsee Conference is held to ensure<br>          interagency cooperation in the extermination<br>          of the Jews. Anne Frank's family goes into<br>          hiding in Amsterdam. Death camps are<br>          established in the Polish villages of Belzec,<br>          Sobibor, and Treblinka. Gassings begin at<br>          Auschwitz and Maidanek in Poland.<br> 1943 Greek Jews are deported to Auschwitz.<br>          Jews revolt in Warsaw ghetto and in<br>          Treblinka and Sobibor. United Nations<br>          War Crimes Commission is created. <br> 1944 Anne Frank's family is arrested. Hungarian <br>          Jews are deported to Auschwitz. Soviet<br>          troops advance. Death marches begin.<br>          Lodz, the last ghetto, is liquidated.<br>          Jewish sonderkommando revolt at<br>          Auschwitz. Allies invade Normandy<br>          on D-Day, June 6. Allied troops enter Rome,<br>          Paris and Brussels. The Battle of the Bulge<br>          begins December 16. Nazis force American<br>          POWS and Jews into slave labor. <br><br> 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau <br>          and Maidanek. Anne Frank dies of Typhus<br>          shortly before the British liberate Bergen-<br>          Belsen. American troops liberate Dachau.<br>          Hitler commits suicide in Berlin. Germany<br>          signs unconditional surrender. Japan <br>          surrenders. War-crimes trials begin<br>          in Nuremberg. Anti-Jewish riots erupt in<br>          Krakow.<br> 1946 Jewish leaders are tortured and murdered<br>          near Krakow and Lodz. Pogrom erupts in <br>          Kielce, Poland, with 42 killed. Anti-Semitism<br>          continues. 100,000 Polish Jews leave their <br>          homeland.<br><br> This map depicts the location of the <br> Death and Concentration Camps <br> where the Nazi Germans implented <br> their "Final Solution," <br> the murder of 6,000,000 Jews.<br><br> <i>(Rear Left Panel)</i> <br> 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...<br> 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.' <br> &#8212;General Dwight D. Eisenhower,<br>    <small>Supreme Commander of the Allied<br>    Forces in Europe, 1945 </small><br><br> South Carolina Liberators<br> [list of 44 names]<br><br> <i>(Rear Right Panel)</i><br> I believe in the sun, even when it does not shine,<br> I believe in love, even when it is not shown.<br> I believe in God, even when he does not speak. <br> &#8212;<small> Inscribed on a wall by a Holocaust victim</small><br> South Carolina Holocaust Survivors <br> [Three Columns 87 names]