Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, states, "I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear."
430 jewish hostages were deported from Amsterdam after a dutch nazi is killed by jews
Hitler's Commissar Order authorizes execution of anyone suspected of being a Communist official in territories about to be seized from Soviet Russia.
3,600 Jews were arrested in Paris
As the German Army advances, SS Einsatzgruppen follow along and conduct mass murder of Jews
35,000 Jews from Odessa shot and seized lands.
Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest
Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest
Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center
Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz)
Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center
German forces occupy Hungary
Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary
Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary
As Allied troops advance, the Nazis conduct death marches of concentration camp inmates away from outlying areas.
Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews.
Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz.
Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland
Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.
Approximately 40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen by the British, who report "both inside and outside the huts was a carpet of dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth."