The Devil's Arithmetic

The Nazis would disrupt weddings, target Jewish businesses, deport Jews to Russia and other places....At one point in the book, an officer instructs them to lie on the ground so that his officers can move among them and take their jewelry and papers for "safekeeping." It began as gradual but rapidly got worse. The Nazis ultimate goal was to de-humanize the Jews and leave them without hope. Hitler's ultimate goal was ethnic cleansing.