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WW1 ends
World war 1 offociely ends. The Germans are very upset about losing, -
Treaty of verallies
The treaty was signed on June 28th 1919 after months of argument and negotiation amongst the so-called "Big Three" as to what the treaty should contain. -
Stock market rises
The stock market begins its spectacular rise. Bears little relation to the rest of the economy. -
Great depression
By 1929, the richest 1 percent will own 40 percent of the nation's wealth. -
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World war 2
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WW2 starts
World War two starts -
200 Jews burned alive
At Bedzin, 200 Jews are burned alive in a synagogue by the Germans, who charge Poles with the crime. Then execute 30 of them in a public square. -
Final goal
Heydrich issues instructions to SS Einsatzgruppen (special action squads) in Poland regarding treatment of Jews, stating they are to be gathered into ghettos near railroads for the future "final goal. -
1.3 million
Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. Over two million Jews reside in Nazi controlled areas, leaving 1.3 million in the Soviet area. -
Isolation of Jews
Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews. -
Polish women
The first transport of Polish women arrives at Ravensbruck concentration camp. -
Yellow stars
Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10. -
Farben factory
The Germans open Auschwitz concentration camp officially. To provide 100,000 labour force for I.G Farben factory. -
Anti-Jewish
Vichy France passes its own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws. -
Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off. -
430 Jewish Hostages
430 Jewish hostages are deported from Amsterdam after a Dutch Nazi is killed by Jews. -
Lithuanias
3,800 Jews killed during a pogrom by Lithuanians in Kovno -
Romanian Troops
Romanian troops conduct a pogrom against Jews in the town of Jassy, killing 10,000. -
Massacer
The SS Einsatzgruppen operating in the Ukraine massacres between 50,000 and 96,000 Ukranians (of which 33,771 are Jews), at Babi Yar, a ravine about 30 miles outside of Kiev. -
Mass shooting.
Near Riga, a mass shooting of Latvian and German Jews. -
New death camp
The German open up a new death camp just outside Minsk, near the village of Maly Trostenets. Russian POW's and Jews have been forced to build the barracks for 600 slave labourers and their German and Ukrainian guards. Tens of thousands of Austrian, German, and Czech Jews are shipped there and driven towards the village in mobile gas chambers. When the vans reach the camp, all inside them are dead. At the camp, the slave labourers bury the bodies in deep pits. -
Mobile gas vans
SS report 97,000 persons have been "processed" in mobile gas vans. -
20 new gas chambers
23/07/1942 Treblinka extermination camp opened in occupied Poland, east of Warsaw. The camp is fitted with two buildings containing 10 gas chambers, each holding 200 persons. Carbon monoxide gas is piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but Zyklon-B will later be substituted. Bodies are burned in open pits. -
Valubles
The SS begin to take profit from the possessions and valuables of Jews from Auschwitz and Majdanek. German banknotes are sent to the Reichs Bank. Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration. Watches, clocks and pens are distributed to troops at the front. Clothing is distributed to German families. -
2nd gas chamber
At Auschwitz, a second gas chamber, Bunker II (the white farmhouse), is made operational at Birkenau due to the number of Jews arriving. -
New york times
The New York Times reports on an inside page that Nazis have machine-gunned over 100,000 Jews in the Baltic states, 100,000 in Poland and twice as many in western Russia. -
1,000,000 dead
The British section of the 'World Jewish Congress', claims that 1,000,000 Jews are already dead in occupied Europe. -
Burning bodies
Open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial. The decision is made to dig up and burn those already buried, 107,000 corpses, to prevent fouling of ground water -
First resistance
First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. -
Gypsie arrest
Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps. -
Protest
28/02/1943
A group of German wives of Jewish men begin to gather and protest in Berlin in order to try and stop the deportation of their husbands to concentrations camps. -
Extermanation
09/04/1943 Exterminations at Chelmno cease. The camp will be reactivated in the spring of 1944 to liquidate ghettos. In all, Chelmno will total 300,000 deaths -
Month long massacre
The Jewish uprising in Warsaw triggers a massive German response and initiates a month long massacre of the 60,000 Jews in the ghetto. -
60,00 jews in ghetto
The Jewish uprising in Warsaw triggers a massive German response and initiates a month long massacre of the 60,000 Jews in the ghetto. -
4 new crematories
Newly built gas chamber/crematory III opens at Auschwitz. With its completion, the four new crematories at Auschwitz have a daily capacity of 4,756 bodies -
Harvest festival
03/11/1943
Nazis carry out Operation Harvest Festival in occupied Poland, killing 42,000 Jews -
Hans Frank
Diary entry by Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, concerning the fate of 2.5 million Jews originally under his jurisdiction - "At the present time we still have in the General Government perhaps 100,000 Jews. -
mass deportation
Hungary's 750,000 Jews, which have so far remained unmolested by the Germans are about to endure a nightmare of mass deportation to the concentration camps as Eichmann arrives in Hungary with his "Special Section Commandos" -
First transports
First transports of Jews from Athens to Auschwitz, totalling 5,200 persons -
100,000 gased
It is estimated that 100,000 have been gassed at Auschwitz. Between May 16 and May 31, the SS report collecting 88 pounds of gold and white metal from the teeth of those gassed. By the end of June, 381,661 persons, which is half of the Jews in Hungary have arrived at Auschwitz -
Slave labor
Rosenberg orders operation 'Hay Action', the kidnapping of 40,000 Polish children aged ten to fourteen for slave labour in Germany -
2,00 Jews gassed
The last train transport of 2,000 Jews to Auschwitz are gassed. -
100 mile march
25,000 Jews are forced to walk over 100 miles in rain and snow from Budapest to the Austrian border, followed by a second forced march of 50,000 persons, ending at Mauthausen Concentration camp -
Destruction of crematories
25/11/1944
Himmler orders the destruction of the crematories at Auschwitz. -
66,000 back to Germany
Nazis evacuate 66,000 inmates from Auschwitz back into Germany. -
2,000,000 killed
Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there. -
WW2 ends
World war two ends -
Theresienstadt taken over
Theresienstadt taken over by the Red Cross -
Hanged
SS personnel convicted of atrocities at Belsen and other concentration camps, are hanged