Timeline: Holocaust

Jan 10, 1935

alcoholics anonomous founded

alcoholics anonomous is a program that alcoholics go to to meetings to help stop drinking.

Jan 10, 1935

Germany Issues the Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws

After the takeover of power in 1933 by Hitler, Nazism became an official ideology incorporating antisemitism as a form of scientific racism. There was a rapid growth in German legislation directed at Jews and other groups, such as the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service which banned "non-Aryans" and political opponents of the Nazis, from the civil-service.

Jan 10, 1936

Hoover Dam Completed

once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Aug 10, 1936

Nazi Olympics in Berlin

In August 1936, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship scored a huge propaganda success as host of the Summer Olympics in Berlin. The Games were a brief, two-week interlude in Germany’s escalating campaign against its Jewish population and the country’s march toward war.

Jan 10, 1937

Amelia Earhart Vanishes

disappeared July 2, 1937, was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.

May 6, 1937

Hindenburg disaster

After a three-day trip across the Atlantic from Frankfurt, Germany to New Jersey, the Hindenburg (a large, rigid airship) was in the process of landing when it broke into flames at 7:25 p.m. on May 6, 1937. Within 34 seconds, the entire airship was consumed by fire.

Jan 10, 1938

Extinct Fish Found (Coelacanth)

They follow the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish and tetrapods), which means they are more closely related to lungfish, reptiles and mammals than to the common ray-finned fishes. They are found along the coastlines of the Indian Ocean and Indonesia. Since there are only two species of coelacanth and both are threatened, it is the most endangered order of animals in the world.

Mar 12, 1938

Hitler Annexes Austria

Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich on 12 March 1938. There had been several years of pressure by supporters in both Austria and Germany (by both Nazis and non-Nazis) for the "Heim ins Reich" movement. Earlier, Nazi Germany had provided support for the Austrian National Socialist Party (Austrian Nazi Party) in its bid to seize power from Austria's Austrofascist leadership.

Jan 10, 1939

Helicopter Invented

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky invented the first helicoter

Aug 14, 1939

German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Signed

The economic agreement committed the Soviet Union to provide food products as well as raw materials to Germany in exchange for furnished products such as machinery from Germany.

Apr 30, 1940

Poland sealed off

The Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 Jews locked inside.

Jan 1, 1941

Pogrom in Romania

A porgrom is an organized massacre of a particular ethnic. This certain one resulted in the death of over 2,000 jews.

Apr 20, 1942

German Jews banned

German Jews are banned from using public transportation.

Jun 1, 1942

Forced to wear stars

Jews in France, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania were ordered to wear yellow stars.

Jul 7, 1942

Sterilization in Aushwitz

Himmler grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz.

Feb 1, 1943

Proposes to the Allies

The Romanian government proposes to the Allies the transfer of 70,000 Jews to Palestine, but receives no response from Britain or the U.S.

Apr 19, 1943

Ghetto revolts

Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 inhabitants; Jewish underground fights Nazis until early June

Aug 4, 1944

Frank's family arrested

Anne Frank and family are arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, then sent to Auschwitz. Anne and her sister Margot are later sent to Bergen-Belsen where Anne dies of typhus on March 15, 1945.