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The Holocaust

  • The Holocaust

    The Holocaust

    The Holocaust began and Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
  • Reichstag Building

    Reichstag Building

    Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.
  • Hitler

    Hitler

    Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.
  • Banned

    Banned

    Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
  • National health insurance

    National health insurance

    Jews not allowed national health insurance.
  • Nazi

    Nazi

    Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
  • Jewish Cultural Unions

    Jewish Cultural Unions

    Nazis force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions.
  • Rhineland

    Rhineland

    Nazis occupy the Rhineland.
  • Nazis and Jews

    Nazis and Jews

    Nazis prohibited Jews from trading and providing a variety of specified commercial services.
  • Goods

    Goods

    Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.
  • Vichy France

    Vichy France

    The first anti-Jewish measures are taken in Vichy France.
  • Kamenets-Podolski

    Kamenets-Podolski

    23,000 Jews killed at Kamenets-Podolsk, in the Ukraine.
  • Auschwitz

    Auschwitz

    First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz.
  • Gypsies

    Gypsies

    Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps.
  • Theresienstadi to Auschwitz

    Theresienstadi to Auschwitz

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

    Americans

    Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
  • Red Cross

    Red Cross

    Theresienstadt taken over by the Red Cross
  • WW2

    WW2

    For the western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8
  • Survivors

    Survivors

    In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied powers.