The Holocaust

hitler was born

Apr 20, 1889

was born in austria he moved from vienna austria into munich germany in may 1913

eva braun was born

Feb 6, 1912

took almost all the pictures of hitler found today committed suicied with hitler, 2 days after they got married this is a picture of her

hitler in ww1

Jan 1, 1918

earned some medals, but never got to a leadership role
the picture shows hitler with a real mustache

nazi party formed

Feb 2, 1920

originally led by anton drexler disolved in 1945

mein kampf was fist published

Jun 18, 1925

means my struggle was written by hitler

The concentration camp of Stutthof is established.

Sep 2, 1932

this camp was created to kill more jews here is a picture of Stutthof"s gate

start of the holocaust

Jan 30, 1933

is refered to as the shoah in hebrew *picture shows hitler who is responsible for the holocaust

hitler becomes chancellor of germany

Jan 30, 1933

this means he becomes like the president and governs over germany was electede as part of the political party the nazis

the first camp opened

Mar 22, 1933

dachau was the very first camp the picture shows the gas showers

german parliment gives hitler dictorial powers

Mar 24, 1933

hitler was a dictator after parliment did this
the picture shows hitler

nazi stage boycott on jewish stores

Apr 1, 1933

this was pefrormed on just jewish places of buisness
the picture shows nazi's burning a store

jews are dissmised of public jobs

Apr 7, 1933

examples of the jobs are school teachers, politians, police, firefighters, and doctors/ dentist. the picture shows jew getting dargged out of his job

jewish authors books were burned in public

May 10, 1933

this made the jews feel that they had to leave now, it was a total disgrace to them
this picture show the books being burned

nazi party is declared only legal party in germany

Jul 14, 1933

was party hitler was head of germany picture shows nazi symbol

nuremburg laws

Jan 1, 1934

these laws took jewish citizenship away
the picture shows the laws

jews are cut off of national health care

May 17, 1934

this means if jews got sick, they would die easier the picture shows a sick jew

jews banned from serving in the military

May 21, 1935

this made it hard for jews to be accepted by the german army, and made it impossible for them to join the army this is a picture of the german army in ww2

olympic games held in berlin aug. 1st- 16th

Aug 1, 1936

jesse owens was a black runner in that olympic games, hitler does not like black people... the picture is of jesse owens

The concentration camp of Buchenwald is established

Jul 16, 1937

this was another concentration camp the picture shows the camp

germany makes all jews carry i.d. papers at all times

Jul 23, 1938

this made it harder for jews to hide and not be seen by the police or nazi's this is a picture of what one of the i.d.'s would have looked like...

jews are required to have a "J" put on their passports

Oct 5, 1938

this made jews harder to escape and leave to escape capture this shows a jewish passport from this time

night of broken glass

Nov 9, 1938

burned shops jewish or not and destroyed ober ramstadt
the picture shows a church being burned down

nazi's force jews to hand over all gold and silver items

Feb 21, 1939

this even meant gold and silver caps in their teeth the picture shows a nazi pulling a gold cap out of a jews mouth

ww2 starts

Sep 1, 1939

germany,italy, and japan were the united states main targets the picture shows hitler and stalin calling eachother scum and dirt and such

nazi's invade eastern poland

Sep 17, 1939

poland was a big country, it was a big accoplishment to invade it the picture shows the nazi's entering poland

polish jews over age of 10+ were to wear star of david

Nov 23, 1939

the star is yellow colored
the picture show people wearing the star of david

anne frank was sent to death camp

Jan 1, 1940

was 15 when she died the picture shows anne frank

The construction of Birkenau is begun at Auschwitz

Oct 8, 1941

this was the gas killing chamber that killed thousands of jews here is a picture of the remains of that chamber

germany declares war on the u.s.

Dec 11, 1941

this dragged us to fight hitler, and try to get the jews out of the concentration camps. this is a picture of the u.s. flag and the german flag next to each other.

2nd gas chamber installed at Auschwitz.

Jun 30, 1942

by installing the second gas chamber, the nazi's could kill more jews the picture shows a gas chamber at Auschwitz.

jewish food rations were shortened by the nazi's

Sep 18, 1942

this made it almost impossible for jewish families to survive this picture shows a place where people would buy their rations

germany invades former ally hungary

Mar 1, 1944

this ruined the whole relationship for hungary and germany the picture shows the nazi's invading hungary

paris is liberated from german rule

Aug 25, 1944

this means france once again is in power the picture shows france's flag

last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Oct 30, 1944

this is a big thing, considering that this was the last time ever a gas chamber was used the picture shows the gas chamber again

the death march

Jan 18, 1945

the march was from Auschwitz to sothern poland killing nearly 60,000 jews this is a picture of the death march

hitler marrys eva braun

Apr 30, 1945

she was his long time mistress were married for 2 days before killing themselves to escape the red army

hitler killed himself

May 1, 1945

commited suicied with his wife of 2 days eva braun the picture shows them walking their dogs

germany surrenders ww2

May 7, 1945

this officially made germany losers of ww2 the picture shows a newspaper stating germany surrenders war

the last camp to close its doors

May 8, 1945

ther very last camp to close was Theresienstadt this camp was released by the soviets

end of the holocaust

Sep 2, 1945

the camps officially ended on the last day of ww2 the picture shows 2 holocaust surviors at a school telling their stories