History of the Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945

  • Adolf Hitler made chancellor of Germany

  • Opening of Dacau in Germany

  • Boycott of Jewish businesses

  • Establishment of the Gestapo

  • Public book burnings begin

  • Laws put in place that establish Jews lose German citizenship

  • Hitler declares himself Führer und Reichskanzler

  • Nuremberg Laws put in place

  • Concentration camp Sachsenhausen opens

  • Concentration camp Buchenwald opens

  • All antisemetic laws applied to Austria

  • All antisemetic laws apply to Italy

  • Kristallnacht takes place

  • First Polish ghetto established

  • German and Polish Jews forced to wear yellow stars and arm bands

  • Birkenau established to begin the extermination of Jews

  • Beginning of death march of 40000 Jews from Budapest to Austria

  • Extermination of Jews begins in Sobibor

  • Extermination of Jews begins in Belzec

  • Liquidation of all ghettos to camps begins

  • D-Day invasion

  • Auschwitz evacuated, Auscwitz death march of inmates begins

  • Death march of Stutthof inmates begins

  • Death march of Buchenwald inmates begins

  • Hitler commits suicide