Holocaust

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1941	Hans Frank	Hans Frank made the comment, " I ask nothing of the Jews except the just disapear"
01/05/1941	Dathes Of Jews	A pogrom in Romania results in over 2,000 Jews killed
01/24/1941	Nazi's Newspaper Quote	Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, published by Julius Streicher - "Now judgment has begun and it will reach its conclusion only when knowledge of the Jews has been erased from the earth."
02/22/1941	Being Deported	430 Jewish hostages are deported from Amsterdam after a Dutch Nazi is killed by Jews.
03/07/1941	Forced To Work	Germans ordered Jews into the work force union.
03/14/1941	Arrested	3,600 Jews were arrested all for doing nthing wrong just because they were jews. This happend in Paris.
03/26/1941	Giving Approval To Murder Squads	The German Army High Command gives approval to RSHA and Heydrich on the tasks of SS murder squads (Einsatzgruppen) in occupied Poland.
04/06/1941	Nazis Invade	Nazis invade Yugoslavia (Jewish pop. 75,000) and Greece (Jewish pop. 77,000).
04/07/1941	Ghettos Established	Ghettos established at Bialystok and Lvov.
04/26/1941	Rounding Jews	The Hungarian Army rounds up 18,000 Jews at Kamenets-Podolsk
05/10/1941	Himmler Summons Quote	Himmler summons Auschwitz Kommandant Höss to Berlin and tells him, "The Führer has ordered the Final Solution of the Jewish question. We, the SS, have to carry out this order...I have therefore chosen Auschwitz for this purpose."
05/16/1941	French approved Hitler	French Marshal Petain issues a radio broadcast approving collaboration with Hitler.
06/22/1941	Nazi invades Russia	Nazis invade Russia (Jewish pop. 3 million).
06/29/1941	10,000 Jew Deathes	Romanian troops conduct a pogrom against Jews in the town of Jassy, killing 10,000
07/04/1941	Taking Jewish Property	Ghettos established at Kovno, Minsk, Vitebsk and Zhitomer. Also in July, the government of Vichy France seizes Jewish owned property.
07/08/1941	Mass Murder	As the German Army advances, SS Einsatzgruppen follow along and conduct mass murder of Jews in seized lands.
07/17/1941	Alfred RosenBurg	Nazi racial 'philosopher' Alfred Rosenberg is appointed Reich Minister for the Eastern Occupied Territories to administer territories seized from the Soviet Union.
07/21/1941	Concentration Camp	In occupied Poland near Lublin, Majdanek concentration camp becomes operational.
07/25/1941	3,800 Deathes In Konvo	3,800 Jews killed during a pogrom by Lithuanians in Kovno
07/31/1941	Final Solution	Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for Final Solution.
08/06/1941	40,000 Parish	Jews in Romania forced into Transnistria. By December, 70,000 perish
09/01/1941	Ordered	German Jews ordered to wear yellow stars.
09/03/1941	First Gas Tests	The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz.
09/06/1941	Vilna Ghetto Established	The Vilna Ghetto is established containing 40,000 Jews.
09/08/1941	Extermanation Camps	In occupied Poland, near Lodz, Chelmno extermination camp becomes operational. Jews taken there are placed in mobile gas vans and driven to a burial place while carbon monoxide from the engine exhaust is fed into the sealed rear compartment, killing them. The first gassing victims include 5,000 Gypsies who had been deported from the Reich to Lodz.
09/10/1941	Deportation	Beginning of general deportation of German Jews.
09/19/1941	Nazis	Nazis take Kiev.
09/27/1941	27,000 Deathes	23,000 Jews killed at Kamenets-Podolsk, in the Ukraine.
09/29/1941	33,771 Jew Deathes	SS Einsatzgruppen murder 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar near Kiev.
10/01/1941	35,000 Jews Shot	35,000 Jews from Odessa shot.
10/02/1941	German Army Drive	Beginning of the German Army drive on Moscow.
10/23/1941	Forbidin Grounds	Nazis forbid emigration of Jews from the Reich.
11/01/1941	45,476 Jews Killed	SS Einsatzgruppe B reports a tally of 45,476 Jews killed.
11/24/1941	Theresienstadt Ghetto is established	Theresienstadt Ghetto is established near Prague, Czechoslovakia. The Nazis will use it as a model ghetto for propaganda purposes.
11/30/1941	Mass Shooting	Near Riga, a mass shooting of Latvian and German Jews.
12/07/1941	Japn Attacks U.S.A	Japanese attack United States at Pearl Harbor. The next day the U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan.
12/11/1941	Hitler Declares War On U.S.A	Hitler declares war on the United States. President Roosevelt then asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany saying, "Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty and civilization." The U.S.A. then enters the war in Europe and will concentrate nearly 90 percent of its military resources to defeat Hitler.
12/12/1941	Stuma Leaves Romania carrying 769 Jews	The ship "Struma" leaves Romania for Palestine carrying 769 Jews but is later denied permission by British authorities to allow the passengers to disembark. In February 1942, it sails back into the Black Sea where it is intercepted by a Russian submarine and sunk as an "enemy target."
12/16/1941	Quote	During a cabinet meeting, Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, states - "Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole..."
01/02/1942	Dead Bodies	Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.
01/20/1942	Fianl Problem	Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution."
01/31/1942	229,052 Jews Dead	SS Einsatzgruppe A reports a tally of 229,052 Jews killed
03/01/1942	Gas Chambers	In occupied Poland, Belzec extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with permanent gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.
03/17/1942	Deporting The Jews	The deportation of Jews from Lublin to Belzec
03/24/1942	The Start	The start of deportation of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz.
03/27/1942	French Jews to Aushwitz	The start of deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz.
03/28/1942	Slave Labor	Fritz Sauckel named Chief of Manpower to expedite recruitment of slave labor.
03/30/1942	Train Loads	First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz.
04/07/1942	Arriving	First transports of Jews arrive at Majdanek.
04/20/1942	Banned	German Jews are banned from using public transportation.
05/03/1942	Another Camp	In occupied Poland, Sobibor extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with three gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.
05/18/1942	Newyork Times	The New York Times reports on an inside page that Nazis have machine-gunned over 100,000 Jews in the Baltic states, 100,000 in Poland and twice as many in western Russia.
05/27/1942	Wounded	SS leader Heydrich is mortally wounded by Czech Underground agents.
06/01/1942	Yellow Stars	Jews in France, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania ordered to wear yellow stars.
06/04/1942	Heydritch dies	Heydrich dies of his wounds.
06/05/1942	Processed 97,000 People	SS report 97,000 persons have been "processed" in mobile gas vans.
06/08/1942	Gas Vans	Gas vans used in Riga.
06/10/1942	After Heydriche's death	Nazis liquidate Lidice in retaliation for Heydrich's death.
06/11/1942	Deportation	Eichmann meets with representatives from France, Belgium and Holland to coordinate deportation plans for Jews.
06/30/1942	More Gas Chambers	At Auschwitz, a second gas chamber, Bunker II (the white farmhouse), is made operational at Birkenau due to the number of Jews arriving.
07/02/1942	Newyork Time Reports	The New York Times reports via the London Daily Telegraph that over 1,000,000 Jews have already been killed by Nazis.
07/02/1942	Sent Again..	Jews from Berlin sent to Theresienstadt.
07/07/1942	Jewish Congress	Swiss representatives of the World Jewish Congress receive information from a German industrialist regarding the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews. They then pass the information on to London and Washington.
07/07/1942	Sterilization	Himmler grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz.
07/14/1942	Dutch Jews	Beginning of deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.
07/16/1942	Getting Put In Concentration Camps	12,887 Jews of Paris are rounded up and sent to Drancy Internment Camp located outside the city. A total of approximately 74,000 Jews, including 11,000 children, will eventually be transported from Drancy to Auschwitz, Majdanek and Sobibor.
07/17/1942	Crematoriums	Himmler visits Auschwitz-Birkenau for two days, inspecting all ongoing construction and expansion, then observes the extermination process from start to finish as two trainloads of Jews arrive from Holland. Kommandant Höss is then promoted. Construction includes four large gas chamber/crematories.
07/19/1942	Exeration Camps	Himmler orders Operation Reinhard, mass deportations of Jews in Poland to extermination camps
07/22/1942	More Camps	Beginning of deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the new extermination camp, Treblinka. Also, beginning of the deportation of Belgian Jews to Auschwitz.
07/22/1942	Left To Die	Treblinka extermination camp opened in occupied Poland, east of Warsaw. The camp is fitted with two buildings containing 10 gas chambers, each holding 200 persons. Carbon monoxide gas is piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but Zyklon-B will later be substituted. Bodies are burned in open pits.
08/06/1942	Croatin Jews	The start of deportations of Croatian Jews to Auschwitz.
08/23/1942	Germany Attacks Russia	Beginning of German Army attack on Stalingrad in Russia.
08/26/1942	Arrested In Fracnce	7,000 Jews arrested in unoccupied France
09/05/1942	All Jews	Himmler orders all Jews in concentration camps in Germany to be sent to Auschwitz and Majdanek.
09/05/1942	Germans Sit There	A German eyewitness observes SS mass murder.
09/09/1942	Preventing Bad Water	Open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial. The decision is made to dig up and burn those already buried, 107,000 corpses, to prevent fouling of ground water.
09/18/1942	Less Food	Reduction of food rations for Jews in Germany.
09/26/1942	Taking Valuables	SS begins cashing in possessions and valuables of Jews from Auschwitz and Majdanek. German banknotes are sent to the Reichs Bank. Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration. Watches, clocks and pens are distributed to troops at the front. Clothing is distributed to German families. By February 1943, over 800 boxcars of confiscated goods will have left Auschwitz.
10/14/1942	Mass Killing In Ukraine	Mass killing of Jews from Mizocz Ghetto in the Ukraine.
10/22/1942	Group Of Jews	SS put down a revolt at Sachsenhausen by a group of Jews about to be sent to Auschwitz.
10/25/1942	Deporting to Norway	Deportations of Jews from Norway to Auschwitz begin.
10/28/1942	First Transportation	The first transport from Theresienstadt arrives at Auschwitz.
11/15/1942	170,000 Deathes in Bialystok	The mass killing of 170,000 Jews in the area of Bialystok.
12/10/1942	Arriving From Germany	The first transport of Jews from Germany arrives at Auschwitz.
12/11/1942	600,000 Jews Murdered	Exterminations at Belzec cease after an estimated 600,000 Jews have been murdered. The camp is then dismantled, plowed over and planted.
12/17/1942	U.S.A declares crimes	British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons the Nazis are "now carrying into effect Hitler's oft repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe." The U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged
12/28/1942	Women	Sterilization experiments on women at Birkenau begin.
01/03/1943	Reaching One Million	The number of Jews killed by SS Einsatzgruppen passes one million. Nazis then use special units of slave laborers to dig up and burn the bodies to remove all traces.
01/18/1943	Residence	First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
01/29/1943	Arrested And Sent	Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps.
01/30/1943	RSHA	Ernst Kaltenbrunner succeeds Heydrich as head of RSHA.
02/01/1943	70,000 jJews to Palastine	The Romanian government proposes to the Allies the transfer of 70,000 Jews to Palestine, but receives no response from Britain or the U.S.
02/02/1943	Greek Jews	Greek Jews are ordered into ghettos.
02/05/1943	Germans Surendered to Russia	Germans surrender to Russian troops at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
02/24/1943	Sent to Aushwitz	Jews working in Berlin armaments industry are sent to Auschwitz.
03/01/1943	New York Helps	In New York, American Jews hold a mass rally at Madison Square Garden to pressure the U.S. government into helping the Jews of Europe.
03/07/1943	49,900 Deathes	The start of deportations of Jews from Greece to Auschwitz, lasting until August, totaling 49,900 persons.
03/14/1943	Another Ghetto	The Krakow Ghetto is liquidated.
03/17/1943	Refusing Hitler	Bulgaria states opposition to deportation of its Jews.
03/22/1943	New Gas Chambers	Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/01/1941 to 01/01/1945	Holocaust