Before the Holocaust- Berlin

Before the war, life in Berlin, located in northeastern Germany, was good, even for the Jewish people. They played on the hot summer days just like everyone else. According to a census taken shortly before the war, there were about 160,000 Jewish people living in Berlin before the war began. Since Berlin was the was the capital of Germany, it was first to be under the Nazi rule. When they began to take power in 1933, many of the Jews emigrated away from there. The amount of Jewish people in the town then declined to 80,000. The ones left faced a lot of persecution and discrimination.