Choices become more and more limited as time progresses.

Before the Nazis come to power, Germans have the freedoms that most democracies have today, such as freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom to organize and assemble, and freedom to elect one's leaders. The Nazi government takes these freedoms away.

Non-Jews in Germany have several choices. They can actively cooperate with the government, they can continue their lives and not get involved, or they can resist by helping Jews or other persecuted people.

This last option becomes more and more dangerous, since resisters risk their jobs, their lives and the lives of their families.

Some Jews are able to flee Germany in the 1930's. But most find it very difficult to leave their friends, work and generations of memories for an uncertain future.

Maybe the worst blow for German Jews is that late in the 1930's, the rest of the world turns its back on them. Almost nobody is willing to take German Jewish refugees. They are trapped.