Holocaust

The biginning

Jan 30, 1933

Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany.

Adolph Hitler declares himself president and chancellor of the Third Reich after the death of Paul von Hindenburg.

Aug 3, 1934

New laws

Oct 23, 1935

The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship.

Invasion

Mar 7, 1936

Hitler's army invades the Rhineland.

School Segregation

Jul 2, 1937

Further restrictions are imposed on the number of Jewish students attending German schools.

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass"): Nazi organized nation-wide pogroms result in the burning of hundreds of synagogues; the looting and destruction of many Jewish homes, schools, and community offices; vandalism; and the looting of 7,500 Jewish stores. Many Jews are beaten, and more than 90 are killed. Thirty-thousand Jewish men are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps. Several thousand Jewish women are arrested and sent to local jails. This is followed by a punitive fine to be pa

Cuba and the United States refuse

Jun 1, 1939

Cuba and the United States refuse to accept Jewish refugees aboard the ship S.S. St. Louis, which is forced to return to Europe.

Beginning of WW2

Sep 1, 1939

Laws

Oct 3, 1940

Anti-Jewish laws are passed by France's Vichy Government.

Africa take over

Mar 24, 1941

The German army invades North Africa.

Star of david

Sep 1, 1941

German Jews above the age of six are forced to wear a yellow Star of David sewed on the left side of their clothes with the word "Jude" printed in black.

Murder

Sep 28, 1941

Nearly 34,000 Jews are murdered by mobile killing squads at Babi Yar, near Kiev in the Ukraine.

Ghetto

Oct 1, 1941

First group of German and Austrian Jews are deported to ghettos in eastern Europe.

Murder Camps

Jan 1, 1942

Nazi "extermination" camps located in occupied Poland at Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek-Lublin begins mass murder of Jews in gas chambers.

Treblinka death camp opens.

Jun 1, 1942

Jews resist

Period: Apr 19, 1943 to May 1, 1943

16 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto initiate resistance to deportation by the Germans to the death camps.

Rebel's unite

Aug 2, 1943

The inmates at Treblinka rebel.

The War Refugee Board is established by President Franklin Roosevelt.

Oct 23, 1944

Death march

Jan 17, 1945

Nazis empty Auschwitz and start prisoners on "death marches" to Germany.

Liberation

May 5, 1945

Troops from the United States liberate Mauthausen concentration camp.

End of WW2

Aug 9, 1945