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Less than 3 months after coming to power the Nazis boycotted Jewish-owned businesses. This was revenge for the bad international press against Nazi Germany. The boycott lasted for only one day, but it would ignite nationwide campaigns. -
The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps, One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. -
German authorities order the Warsaw ghetto to be sealed. It is the largest ghetto in both area and population, confining more than 350,000 Jews. The ghetto added up to 2.4 percent of the city.
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German authorities seal off the Kovno ghetto, with approximately 30,000 Jewish inhabitants. The ghetto had no running water. The ghetto was also overcrowded. -
The Nazis that any jew more than six years of age had to wear the Star of David that had the word jew on the inside of the star. The Nazis used the star to make it easier to prosecute jews. -
Germans transferred jews from the Lodz Ghetto to Chelmno killing center. There over one hundred thousand Jews would be killed. The Jews of Lodz formed the second-largest Jewish community in prewar Poland, after Warsaw -
The Inspectorate of Concentration Camps opens a second camp at Auschwitz, called Auschwitz-Birkenau or Auschwitz II. Auschwitz-Birkenau was originally designated for imprisoning large numbers of Soviet prisoners of war. Also, it was a killing center from March 1942 to November 144. -
German authorities begin the deportation of Dutch Jews from the Westerbork, Amersfoort, and Vught camps in the Netherlands to killing centers and concentration camps in Germany and German-occupied Poland.
