Describe how Jews were persecuted in the twentieth century before the Holocaust.

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Describe how Jews were persecuted in the twentieth century before the Holocaust.

The hatred of Jews started well before World Ward II started. It can be traced right back to when the religion of was still young. The Holocaust did not just happen. There were many ways in which the Jews were persecuted in the 20th century before the Holocaust, and not just in Germany.

At Easter in 1903, Government agents organised an anti-Jewish programme in Russia, where a newspaper published a series of anti-Semitic articles. "A Christian child was discovered murdered" and "A young Christian woman at the Jewish hospital committed suicide". Jews were blamed for the deaths. Violent fights started, 49 Jews were killed, 500 injured, 700 homes looted, 600 businesses and shops looted and 2,000 families left homeless. The 5,000 soldiers in the town did nothing. Later it was discovered that the child had been killed by his family and the suicide was not related to Jews. In 1905 the Russian secret police converted an early anti-Semitic novel into a document called "Protocols of the elders of Zion". The protocols were later issued by the Okhrana in the propaganda campaign that was associated with