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Holocaust Timeline

  • The beginning

    The beginning
    This is when Hitler is now in power, when his secret police arrested members of the German Communist Party, boycotted Jewish businesses
  • Laws Began

    Laws Began
    Laws began with Jews, civilians had to get a "race test" to see if they have any Jewish in them, and laws prohibited Jews and non-Jews together
  • Downhill

    Downhill
    "Night of broken glass" happened, violence attacked Jews (96 killed and 30,000 men arrested), and concentration camps began.
  • Runaway Jews

    Runaway Jews
    937 Jews attempted to escape the concentration camps and left the country on a boat to the ghettos in Poland
  • Germans Takeback

    Germans Takeback
    The Germans caught the Jews and began taking them back through trains, When they got back they quickly started killing the Jews with gas chambers and burning their body's. When they were done with the body's they put it in milk cans and dug it into the ground.
  • Danish To The Rescue

    Danish To The Rescue
    Danish people soon found out what was happening to the Jews and started saving them.
  • Justice for Jews

    Justice for Jews
    Germans took the Jews personal belongings for "fortune", This was also the year when German authorities set the remaining Jews free.
  • The Wars Ending

    The Wars Ending
    The Europe war ended (Germany surrendered) and the criminals that were working for Hitler were charged
  • Finalization

    Finalization
    United States established genocide as an international crime.