Holocaust Timeline by Lesha Sneed

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  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler was appointd Chancellor of Germany

  • Hitler

    Hitler proclaims himself Leader and Reich Chancellor. Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him

  • Nuremberg Law

    Nuremberg Law was the first anti-Jweish racial law wnacted; Jews no longer considered Geramn citizens; Jews couldn't marry Arynas or could they fly the German flag

  • Defines Jew

    Germany defines a "Jew" as, someone with three Jewish grandparents.

  • Concentration Camp

    Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens

  • Buchenwald

    Buchenwald concentration camp opens

  • Reichfuhrer

    Reichfuhrer SS Himmler (chief of the SS untis) appointed the Chief of German Police.

  • Adolf Eichmann

    Adolf Eichmann estbalishes the Office of Jewish Emigration in Vienna to increase the pace of forced emigration.

  • Letter J

    Following request by Swiss authorities, Germans mark all Jewishpassports with a large letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigarting to Switzerland

  • Polish Jews

    17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are stranded in the frontier village of Zbaszyn

  • Mark Fine

    One billion mark fine levied against German Jews for the destruction of property during Kristallnacht

  • World War II

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

  • Ghetto

    Heydrich issues directives to establish ghettis in Gernab-occupied Poland.

  • Hitler Speech

    Hitler in Reuchstag speech: if war wrupts it will mean the Vernichtug (extermination) of European Jews

  • Gas Chamber at Auschwitz

    Gas chambers were the largest room in Crematorium I at Auschwitz. The room was orignially used as a mortuary but was converted in 1941 into a gas chamber where Soviet POWs and Jews were killed

  • Soviet Union

    The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria

  • Surrender

    Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945. Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II

  • Boycott

    Boycott of the Jewish shops and businesses

  • The Law

    The law for Reesrtablishment of the Civil Servie barred Jews from holding civil service, university and state positions

  • Mandatory registration

    Mandatory registration of all propery held by Jews inside the Reich

  • Krisallnacht

    Krisallnacht means Night of Broken Glass. The anti-Jweish pogrom in Germany, male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen)

  • Concentration Camp Liberation

    Holocaust Video

  • Twin Survivors

    Twin Holocaust Survivors

  • Hitlers Speech

    Adolf Hitler Speech