Holocaust Timeline

  • When it all begins (1933)

    -Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." It was a state sponsored persecution.
    - "President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany on." January 30,1933

    -March 20, 1933
    SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.
  • 1934

    -Hitler becomes president of Germany on August 2.
    -Hitler becomes absolute dictator of Germany.
  • 1936

    -The Olympic Games where open in Berlin and the camouflages in their racist militaristic character.
    -The whites were hosting the summer games
    -Owen won in the 100-meter dash, he is the first of four gold medals, and he won them in 1936.
  • 1938

    -The concentration camp was enlarged in Dachau, Germany
    -"Hitler names himself supreme commander of the Wehrmacht." On February 4.
    -Jews are killed and injured during an antisemitic pogrom at Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland and Vilna, Poland during February 4 and April 29
    April 23
    -"Jews in Vienna, Austria, are rounded up on the Sabbath by Nazis and forced to eat grass at the Prater, a local amusement park. Many of the victimized Jews suffer heart attacks and a few die."
  • 1939

    -"Submission of a bill to permit entry of 20,000 refugee children into the United States."on February 9, 1939
    -St. Louis Sets Sail The St. Louis, carrying Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany, departs for Havana, Cuba. on MAY 13, 1939
  • 1940

    -"SS authorities establish the largest concentration camp complex of the Nazi regime."
    -NOVEMBER 15, 1940
    the German didn't want the jewish to get out so "The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over ten feet high, topped with barbed wire."
  • holocaust (1941)

    -April Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece. Then they invade Soviet Union
    -"Nazi Germany declares war on the United States."
    -December 8, 1941
    "The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in occupied Poland."
  • 1942

    -"German authorities begin the deportation of Dutch Jews from camps in the Netherlands."
    -"Hungarian Jewish Businessman Begins Issuing Papers to Jewish refugees."