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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, almost immediately, Hitler begins passing laws and spreading propaganda to limit Jewish People of their rights.
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The Nuremberg laws are passed by Hitler, thus causing all jews to lose their citizenship. All Jewish people cannot own businesses, and are forced to carry a card on them
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In a confrontation with an influential member of a Nazi party, a Jewish person kills them. In response, multiple Jewish Synagogues and churches were burned.
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German authorities established the first ghetto in Poland in Piotrków Trybunalski in October 1939. Authorities required all occupants to wear armbands and have them follow a strict curfew.
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On June 22, 1941, Germany invades the soviet union. Unfortunately for the Jewish population, due to Russia's lack of infrastructure, most Jews captured were shot immediately rather than being transported to concentration camps
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Chelmno was the first extermination camp that the Germans established solely for the purpose to kill Jews. Murder operations began there on December 8, 1941, and continued to do so until January 1945.
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1942 was the deadliest year of the Holocaust, resulting in a multitude of deaths, mostly within concentration camps.
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On May 8, 1945, the holocaust officaly comes to a close due to allied forces marching through their area.
