The Holocaust

By LB10133
  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.

  • Banned from serving

    May 21, 1935 - Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
  • "J" becomes stamped on passports

    "J" becomes stamped on passports

    Law requires Jewish passports to be stamped with a large red "J."
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Japanese attack United States at Pearl Harbor. The next day the U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan.
  • Gas vans

    Gas vans

    Gas vans used in Riga.
  • Extermination camps

    Extermination camps

    Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps.
  • gas chamber

    gas chamber

    Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz.

  • Oskar saves 1200

    Oskar Schindler saves 1200 Jews by moving them from Plaszow labor camp to his hometown of Brunnlitz.

  • freed from concentration camps

    Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.

  • Hitlers dead

    Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot