History of the Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945 By mdelgreco14 Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler made chancellor of Germany Mar 22, 1933 Opening of Dacau in Germany Apr 1, 1933 Boycott of Jewish businesses Apr 26, 1933 Establishment of the Gestapo May 10, 1933 Public book burnings begin Jul 14, 1933 Laws put in place that establish Jews lose German citizenship Aug 2, 1934 Hitler declares himself Führer und Reichskanzler Sep 15, 1935 Nuremberg Laws put in place 1936 Concentration camp Sachsenhausen opens Jul 15, 1937 Concentration camp Buchenwald opens Mar 13, 1938 All antisemetic laws applied to Austria Aug 3, 1938 All antisemetic laws apply to Italy Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht takes place Oct 28, 1939 First Polish ghetto established Nov 23, 1939 German and Polish Jews forced to wear yellow stars and arm bands 1941 Birkenau established to begin the extermination of Jews Nov 8, 1941 Beginning of death march of 40000 Jews from Budapest to Austria 1942 Extermination of Jews begins in Sobibor Mar 17, 1942 Extermination of Jews begins in Belzec 1943 Liquidation of all ghettos to camps begins Jun 6, 1944 D-Day invasion Jan 7, 1945 Auschwitz evacuated, Auscwitz death march of inmates begins Jan 25, 1945 Death march of Stutthof inmates begins Apr 6, 1945 Death march of Buchenwald inmates begins Apr 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide