History of the Holocaust

By muggle68
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    Holocaust events

  • Nazi Party takes power. Hitler is chancellor; civil liberties are taken away

    Nazi Party takes power. Hitler is chancellor; civil liberties are taken away

    Hitler is chancellor; civil liberties are taken away

  • Htiler becomes Fuhrer; Jewish newspapers are silenced.

  • Jews are deprived of citizenship.

  • Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses; Jewish right to vote is removed.

    Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses; Jewish right to vote is removed.

  • Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

    Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

    30,000 Jews arrested
    Jews must now carry ID cards
    Jewish businesses are shut down
    Jewish children are forced to Jewish schools
    Strict curfew in enforced
  • Nazis take over Czechoslavakia and Poland

    Nazis take over Czechoslavakia and Poland

    Britain and France declare war on Germany
    WWII starts
    Jews must wear the Star of David on their clothing
  • Nazis deport Jews to Poland

    Nazis deport Jews to Poland

    Jews are forced into ghettos
    first mass murder of Jews in Poland
    Jews into concentration camps
  • Germany attacks the Soviet Union

    Germany attacks the Soviet Union

    Jews in Western Europe forced into ghettos
  • Nazis submit the "Final Solution"

    Nazis submit the "Final Solution"

    Final Solution: a plan to kill all Jews
    Lists of forbidden items for Jews: newspapers, radios, pets, electrical equipment, bicycles, school, and meat, eggs, and vegetables
  • Death toll: 80% to 85% of Jews to die are already dead

    Death toll: 80% to 85% of Jews to die are already dead

  • Hitler takes over Hungary

    12,000 Jews a day are deported to Aushwitz
  • Hitler Defeated

    Hitler Defeated

    WWII ends
    Surviving Jews are placed in displaced persons camps
  • Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg Trials

    Trials for Nazi war crimes.

  • The United Nations is established.

    UN establishes Jewish homeland in British controlled Palestine, which becomes Israel.
  • Israel becomes the Jewish nation.

    Israel becomes the Jewish nation.