01-07-1940 |
Ban for Jews to work in the air protection service. |
06-09-1940 |
Ban to employ Jews in public administration. Jews already employed are not allowed to be promoted. Shortly after that this was expanded from ministries and universities to all subsidised institutions. |
26-09-1940 |
Ban for Jewish papers to publicise with exclusion of Het Joodsche Weekblad. |
05-10-1940 |
All employees at universities, ministries, and subsidised institutions have to sign an "Ariërverklaring" on their descendancy. |
22-10-1940 |
All Jewish businessmen must have their company registered. This regulation regulates by and large also who will and who will not be considered as Jew. Here is this formulation used to prevent that the companies can not be transferred too easily on the name of others. The definition will, however, later on with the deportations often be used: Jewish is everybody with three or more Jewish grandparents, who is member of a Jewish congregation, or is married with a Jew. |
04-11-1940 |
Announcement that as from November 21 all Jewish civil servants will be suspended and later on dismissed. |
19-12-1940 |
Ban for Jews to have German domestic staff employed. |
09-01-1941 |
Ban for Jews to visit cinemas. |
10-01-1941 |
All Jews or persons with at least one Jewish grandparent have to be registered at the civil administration. Within four weeks after the proclamation all municipalities must have reported, which is perfectly executed within the given term. Only some individuals (twenty according to dr. Lou de Jong) within the Jewish population refuse. Officially there are 160,820 Jews registered, of whom 15,549 half-Jews and 5,719 quarter-Jews. |
16-01-1941 |
An additional arrangement follows for Amsterdam, the city where by far the largest part of the Jewish population is living. They have also to state how many houses and how many shops are possessed by Jews, where their schools and synagogues are located, which tramway- and bus lines go to those neighbourhoods, and which cultural institutions there are. |
12-02-1941 |
The neighbourhood with many Jewish people in Amsterdam is fenced with barbed wire and renamed into the Jewish Quarter. The fence is removed shortly after that, but the signs remain. |
13-02-1941 |
Establishment of the Jewish Council, which gets the dubious task to implement all German measures – including to define which group of Jews will have to go with the next transport - and to stifle all protests at once. For this they have the only Jewish paper, Het Joodsche Weekblad, at their disposal. |
22-02-1941 |
First detentions of 427 Jews who are transported to Mauthausen, after violent protests against the measures. As a reaction to this the February strike bursts out, the one and only anti-pogrom strike during the whole war. |
15-04-1941 |
Ban for Jews to possess radio’s. |
01-05-1941 |
Jewish lawyers and doctors are not anymore allowed to have non-Jewish clients and patients. |
01-05-1941 |
Jews are not anymore allowed to visit markets. |
31-05-1941 |
Ban for Jews to visit swimming pools and beaches. |
11-06-1941 |
Second deportation of 300 Jews from Amsterdam to Mauthausen. |
08-08-1941 |
First LiRo-proclamation VO 148/1941: Jews are obliged to transfer their bank credits of more than one thousand guilders (approximately 450 euro) to the Lippmann-Rosenthal Bank, a previous Jewish bank that was taken over by the Germans. |
01-09-1941 |
Jewish children are not allowed anymore at public schools. |
14-09-1941 |
Third razzia, in Twente hundreds of Jewish men are taken into custody and deported. |
15-09-1941 |
Ban for Jews to visit parks, zoos, cafés, restaurants, hotels, theatres and museums. Fourth razzia, in Gelderland. Hundreds of Jews are arrested and deported. |
09-01-1942 |
Jewish identity cards need to get a "J". |
10-01-1942 |
In the Eastern and Northern parts of the country working camps for Jews are established. |
20-03-1942 |
Ban for Jews to posses or drive means of transportation. |
26-03-1942 |
Ban for Jews to marry non-Jews. |
03-05-1942 |
All Jews older than six years must visibly wear a yellow six pointed star of David with the word "Jew" on their clothes. |
21-05-1942 |
Second LiRo-proclamation VO 58/1942. Jews have to hand in all their gold, silver, antiquities, art objects, valuable goods and cultural objects at Lippmann-Rosenthal at the Sarphatistraat in Amsterdam. |
12-06-1942 |
Jews are only allowed to go shopping at certain hours at a limited number of shops. |
30-06-1942 |
Establishing the curfew, Jews must be at home between 20.00 o'clock and 06.00 o'clock. |
05-06-1942 |
The first appeals by the Jewish Council arrive in the mail box. |
06-07-1942 |
Ban for Jews to make phone calls and ban to visit non-Jews. |
14-07-1942 |
First transport of Amsterdam Jews to the transit camp Westerbork. |
15-07-1942 |
The first train with 1,135 Jews leaves from Westerbork for Auschwitz. Until September 13, 1944 weekly a train will leave for Auschwitz or Sobibor. |
22-07-1942 |
The Hollandsche Schouwburg is put into service as collection point where the Jews have to apply and seized and arrested Jews are detained. |