The Holocaust-Student Sample

The Holocaust

Period: 1933 to 1945

https://www.ushmm.org/

Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Dachau concentration camp is opened outside of Munich

Mar 20, 1933

Boycott of Jewish owned businesses and shops in Germany

Apr 1, 1933

Nuremberg Race Laws

Sep 15, 1935

https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007695

Germany invades Poland, beginning WWII in Europe

Sep 1, 1939

Germans create a ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland

Oct 8, 1939

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/valley/piotrkow/ghetto.asp

Nazis shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev

Sep 29, 1941

Nazis round up and kill 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto

Nov 7, 1941

Nazis shoot 10,000 Jews from Riga ghetto

Nov 30, 1941

65,000 Jews taken from Lodz to Chelmno Killing Center

Jan 16, 1942

Germans deport 65,000 Jews from Drancy to Auschwitz

Mar 27, 1942

Germans deport 100,000 Jews from Netherlands to Auschwitz

Jul 15, 1942

Germans deport 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center

Jul 22, 1942

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005413

Warsaw ghetto uprising begins

Apr 19, 1943

https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007745

Death march of 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp in Poland

Jan 18, 1945

Death March of 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in Poland

Jan 25, 1945

Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex

Jan 27, 1945

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-liberate-auschwitz

American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp

Apr 29, 1945

Germany surrenders to the western Allies

May 7, 1945

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/may-7-1945-nazi-germany-surrenders-in-world-war-ii/

Germany surrenders to the Soviets

May 9, 1945