The Holocaust, 1941-1945

By Chassybold

  • Zyklon-B first used; (aprox date).

    Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I, in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.

  • Zyklon B First used: (approximate date).

    Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I, in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.

  • Wansee Conference

    Wansee conference to co-ordinate Final Solution.

  • 229,052 Jews reported exterminated.

  • Period: to

    50% of all Jews killed in Holocaust in this period.

  • Belzec Becomes death camp (aprox date).

  • First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz.

  • SS report 97,000 persons have been "processed" in mobile gas vans.

  • Period: to

    1,000,000 Jews killed in Treblinka.

  • First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

  • SS Dr. Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz.

  • Himmler orders liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland.

  • Exterminations cease at Treblinka. (Aprox date).

  • Russian troops reach former Polish border.

  • Beginning of the deportation of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz.

  • D-Day

  • Lodz, the last Jewish ghetto in Poland, is liquidated with 60,000 Jews sent to Auschwitz.

  • The last transport of Jews to be gassed, 2,000 from Theresienstadt, arrives at Auschwitz.

  • Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

  • Liberation of Warsaw by the Russians.

  • Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz.

  • Russian troops liberate Auschwitz.

    Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.

  • Berlin is reached by Russian troops.