Events of the Holocaust

By Shamad
  • March 1933

    Due to the reichstag fire Hitlar becomes chancellor of germany through the enabling act
  • FROM CITIZENS TO OUTCASTS

    A woman reads a boycott sign
    posted on the window of a
    Jewish-owned department store.
    The Nazis initiated a boycott of
    Jewish shops and businesses on
    April 1, 1933, across Germany.
  • NAZI RACE LAWS

    Among other things, the laws issued in September
    1935 restricted future German citizenship to those
    of “German or kindred blood,” and excluded those
    deemed to be “racially” Jewish or Roma (Gypsy).
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    “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS”

    Residents of Rostock, Germany,
    view a burning synagogue the
    morning after Kristallnacht
    (“Night of Broken Glass”). On
    the night of November 9–10,
    1938, the Nazi regime unleashed
    orchestrated anti-Jewish violence
    across greater Germany.
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    THE WAR BEGINS

    Sections of Warsaw lay in ruins following the invasion
    and conquest of Poland by the German military begun
    in September 1939 that propelled Europe into World
    War II.
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    DEPORTATIONS

    Between 1942 and 1944, trains carrying Jews
    from German-controlled Europe rolled into one of
    the six killing centers located along rail lines in
    occupied Poland.
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    CONCENTRATION CAMP UNIVERSE

    The German authorities
    confis-cated all the personal
    belongings of the Jews, including
    their clothing, and collected them
    for use or sale. Soviet troops
    dis-covered tens of thousands of
    shoes when they liberated the
    Majdanek concentration camp in
    Poland in July 1944.
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    the war

    The war in Europe ended with the unconditional
    surrender of Germany in May 1945.