Holocast-Caleb By Caleb Yetter Period: Jan 1, 1932 to Dec 31, 1945 Holocaust Feb 3, 1932 Hitler declares a Nazsi party Nov 3, 1932 Germany lifts a bans on Nazi storm troopers Jan 30, 1933 Adolf hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany Oct 4, 1933 Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors Jan 24, 1934 Jews are banned from the German Labor Front May 17, 1934 Jews not allowed national insurance May 21, 1935 Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military Aug 6, 1935 Nazis force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions Feb 10, 1936 The German Gestapo is placed above the law Mar 7, 1936 Nazis occupy the Rhineland Jan 1, 1937 Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans Nov 8, 1937 Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich Jul 23, 1938 Nazis order Jews 15+ to apply for identity cards from the police Nov 15, 1938 Jewish pupils are expelled from all non-Jewish German schools Feb 21, 1939 Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items Jul 4, 1939 German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs Jun 22, 1940 France signs an armistice with Hitler Nov 15, 1940 The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off May 14, 1941 3,600 Jews arrested in Paris Jun 25, 1941 3,800 Jews killed during a pogrom by Lithuanians in Kovno Apr 20, 1942 German Jews are banned from using public transportation Sep 18, 1942 Reduction of food rations for Jews in Germany Jan 29, 1943 Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps May 19, 1943 Nazis declare Berlin to be Judenfrei (cleansed of Jews). Oct 28, 1944 The last transport of Jews to be gassed, 2,000 from Theresienstadt, arrives at Auschwitz Oct 30, 1944 Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz Apr 30, 1945 Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps. Apr 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide in his berlin bunker