Holocaust timeline by Eric Clayton

By douchecanoe442
  • SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich

    SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich

  • Nuremberg laws enacted

    Nuremberg laws enacted

    laws were enacted on many dates
  • night of broken glass, kristallnacht

    night of broken glass, kristallnacht

  • Beginning of ww2

  • Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland

    Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland

  • Einsatzgruppen( 3000 jews slaughtered)

    Einsatzgruppen( 3000 jews slaughtered)

    Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno
  • Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev

    Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev

    34,000 jews are killed in babi yar, this is an aerial image of Babi Yar
  • Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka)

    Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka)

  • shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest

    shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day

    begain US involvement in the war
  • The first killing operations begin at Chelmno(con. camp) in occupied Poland

    The first killing operations begin at Chelmno(con. camp) in occupied Poland

    a picture of the germans marching into poland
  • Nazi Germany declares war on the United States

    Nazi Germany declares war on the United States

    newspaper clipping of when US enters the war
  • Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz)

    Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz)

    Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz)
  • Warsaw ghetto uprising begins

    Warsaw ghetto uprising begins

    jews in the ghetto of warsaw begin to fight back
  • Rescue of Jews in Denmark

    Rescue of Jews in Denmark

    happy jews
  • Germans forces occupy Hungary

    Germans forces occupy Hungary

    boom!!!!!

  • germany deports 440k jews from hungary

  • D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France

  • Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland

  • Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland

  • American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany surrenders to the western Allies

  • End of ww2