July 15
Buchenwald concentration camp opens near Weimar. The first 300 prisoners arrive on July 16. By the end of the month, there were 1,000 inmates. Two years later, the number reached 8,634. That number climbed to over 37,000 in late 1943, 63,000 in late 1944, and 80,000 in March 1945.
July 27
A ritual-murder trial of five Jews opens in Bamberg, Germany.
August 1937
Jews are accused of sacrilege at Hummené, Czechoslovakia.
350 incidents of physical assaults against Jews are recorded this month in Poland.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Chronology_1937.html
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