Holocaust Caroline Frerichs

The beginning

Jan 30, 1933

Adolf Hitler is appionted Chancellor of Germany.

The Holocaust

Period: Jan 30, 1933 to Sep 2, 1945

Reichstag Building

Feb 27, 1933

The Nazis burn down the Reichstag Building which is part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, beginning with the era of Charlemagne in German.

First Naiz Camp

Mar 20, 1933

The Dachau concentration camp was the first concentration camp by the Nazis in Germany. The camp was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, Germany.

Law passed

Jul 14, 1933

The German government passes the “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases. The new law sterilization of people with physical and mental disabilities or mental illness.

Laws

Sep 15, 1935

First anti-Jewish racial laws enacted. Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents.

Jewish doctors

Mar 3, 1936

Jawish docotors were banned from practicing medicine in
germany.

Banning

May 9, 1937

Jews are banned from receiving university degrees.

Mandatory Registration

Apr 26, 1938

Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich.

Refugees

Jul 6, 1938

Evian Conference held in Evian, France on the problem of Jewish refugees

Yellow Star

Nov 23, 1938

Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star.

Start of World war 2

Sep 1, 1939

Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland. In the following weeks, 16.336 civilians are murdered by the Nazies in 714 localities. At least 5,000 victims were Jews.

Battle Britain

Aug 8, 1940

Battle of Britain begins.

Murdered

Jul 1, 1941

Russian and Jews are murdered in the occupied territories.
5,200 Jews murdered in Byalistok
2,000 Jews murdered in Minsk
5,000 Jews murdered in Vilna
5,000 Jews murdered in Brest-Litovsk
5,000 Jews murdered in Tarnopol
3,500 Jews murdered in Zloczow
11,000 Jews murdered in Pinsk
14,000 Jews murdered in Kamenets Podolsk
12,287 Jews murdered in Kishinev

Deportation

Dec 1, 1942

Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers; Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin.

Deporting

May 15, 1943

Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews; by June 27, 380,000 sent to Auschwitz.

Death

Nov 8, 1944

Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria.

Hiroshima

Apr 6, 1945

Bombing of Hiroshima

Nagaski

Apr 9, 1945

Bombing of Nagasaki

Hitler death

Apr 30, 1945

Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck.

Ending to World War 2

Sep 2, 1945

Japan surrenders; end of World War II.