A Timeline of the Holocaust

Hitler Comes to Power

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler Appointed Chancellor

Hitler Passes the Enabling Act

Mar 23, 1933

Boycott of Jewish Owned Businesses

Apr 1, 1933

April 1st Boycott

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service Passed

Apr 7, 1933

Shechita Banned

Apr 21, 1933

Numerus Clausus Act Passed

Apr 25, 1933

Burning of any "un-German" books take place all over Germany.

May 10, 1933

German Book Burning

Immigrants from Poland stripped on their German Citizenship, Nazi Party declared the only legal party.

Jul 14, 1933

Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring Passed

Jul 20, 1933

Creation of the Reich Chamber of Culture

Sep 20, 1933

Night of the Long Knives

Jun 30, 1934

Night of the Long Knives

Nuremberg Laws Passed

Sep 15, 1935

1935 Nuremberg Laws

Olympic Games held in Germany.

Aug 20, 1936

1936 Olympics

Jews banned from many professions which would require them to interact with other Germans.

Jan 20, 1937

The Eternal Jew travelling exhibit begins.

Nov 8, 1937

The Eternal Jew

Anschluss with Austria

Mar 12, 1938

Anschluss with Austria

Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna Established

Mar 20, 1938

Evian Conference Held

Jul 20, 1938

Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine.

Jul 25, 1938

Compulsory Middle Names for Jewish Men and Women

Aug 17, 1938

Jewish Lawyers Legally not allowed to Practice Law!

Sep 27, 1938

Large Red "J" Stamped on Passports of all Jews.

Oct 4, 1938

17,000 Polish Jews deported from Germany. Forced to live in "No-Mans-Land"

Oct 28, 1938

Kristallnacht - Night of Broken Glass

Nov 9, 1938

Kristallnacht

Jews fined 1 Billion Marks for damages related to Kristallnacht.

Nov 12, 1938

Nazis take "Sudetenland"

Mar 15, 1939

Jews moved into special Jewish Housing.

Apr 30, 1939

Nazi Invasion of Poland! Start of WWII

Sep 1, 1939

Einsatzgruppen instructed to move Jews in Poland into Ghettos

Sep 21, 1939

Nazis begin extermination of the sick and infirm.

Oct 20, 1939

Euthanasia

Forced Labor Decree for Jews in Poland

Oct 26, 1939

Yellow Star required to be worn by all Jews over 10.

Nov 23, 1939

Auschwits is selected as the site for a new Concentration Camp

Jan 25, 1940

First deportation of German Jews to Poland

Feb 12, 1940

Nazis invade France, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg

May 10, 1940

Nazis sign pact with Italy and Japan

Sep 27, 1940

Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary become Nazi Allies

Nov 1, 1940

Warsaw and Krakau Ghetto Sealed Off

Nov 15, 1940

Information about the Krakau Ghetto

Pogrom in Romania

Jan 15, 1941

Birkenau built as Women's Lager in Auschwits

Mar 1, 1941

Einsatsgruppen ordered to kill Jews found in Poland

Mar 26, 1941

Einsatsgruppen

Order of given for the implementation of the "Final Solution"

Jun 21, 1941

Nazis invade Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

First tests of Zyklon-B

Sep 3, 1941

More on Zyklon-B

SS Einsatzgruppen murder 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar near Kiev.

Sep 29, 1941

Eye witness account

Jews forbidden to emigrate from the Reich.

Oct 23, 1941

Theresienstadt Ghetto is established

Nov 24, 1941

Theresuenstadt was a Ghetto established for public relations, and was kept very nice.

Chelmno becomes operational

Dec 8, 1941

Chelmno, Death Camp

Wansee Conference is held to coordinate the Final Solution.

Jan 20, 1942

Information of the Wannsee Conference

Sobibor extermination camp becomes operational.

May 15, 1942

Nazi Leader Heydrich dies.

Jun 4, 1942

The New York Times reports that over 1,000,000 Jews have been killed.

Jun 30, 1942

Nazi Leader Himmler grants permission for experimentation on Jewish Prisoners.

Jul 7, 1942

Nazis begin the process of digging up and burning buried bodies.

Sep 9, 1942

Digging at Babi Yar.

Sterilization experiments of women in Birkenau begin.

Dec 28, 1942

Warsaw Ghetto Resistance begins!

Jan 28, 1943

Romani people arrested and sent to extermination camps.

Jan 29, 1943

Nazi defeat at Stalingrad!

Feb 2, 1943

American Jews Hold Rally in Opposition to Nazi Activity

Mar 1, 1943

Krakow Ghetto is Liquidated

Mar 14, 1943

Jews at Krakow moved to Concentration Camps

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising put down.

Apr 19, 1943

End of the Uprising.

Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz.

May 15, 1943

Two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka

Aug 2, 1943

Massive escape from Sobibor. Sobibor is the razed to the ground.

Oct 14, 1943

Escape from Sobibor

The Danish Underground helps transport 7,220 Danish Jews to safety

Oct 15, 1943

The Danish Ferry Jews to Sweden.

Doctors at Auschwits report 106 Castrations Performed

Dec 16, 1943

Jewish inmate escapes he then warns the Elders of the Council at Theresienstadt about Auschwitz.

Apr 5, 1944

A Red Cross delegation visits Theresienstadt, Give Favorable Report

Jun 1, 1944

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp, at Majdanek.

Jul 24, 1944

Liberation of Majdanek

Anne Frank's Family Found.

Aug 4, 1944

Lodz, the last Jewish ghetto in Poland, is liquidated.

Aug 6, 1944

A revolt by Sonderkommando at Birkenau results in complete destruction of Crematory IV.

Oct 7, 1944

Gas Chambers at Auscwitz shut down.

Oct 30, 1944

Destruction of the Crematory

Nazis begin to march Jews farther west away from the Russsian Front.

Nov 8, 1944

Death Marches

Nazi's evacuate many of the Jews still in Auschwitz.

Jan 18, 1945

Russian troops liberate Auschwitz.

Jan 27, 1945

Liberation of Auschwitz

Allies liberate Buchenwald.

Apr 10, 1945

Liberation of Buchenwald

Allies reach Berlin!

Apr 23, 1945

Hitler Commits Suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Information leading up to the death of Hitler

Unconditional German Surrender

May 7, 1945

Nuremberg Trials Begin.

Nov 20, 1945

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