The Holocaust

The Holocaust

Jan 30, 1933

President indenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany

The Holocaust and World War ll:Timeline

Period: Jan 30, 1933 to May 9, 1945

Dachau

Mar 20, 1933

[Dachau](http;//www.ushmm.org)SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.

Boycott

Apr 1, 1933

boycott:Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany.

laws

Apr 7, 1933

Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service.

Laws part 2

Sep 15, 1935

Nuremberg Race Laws.

GERMANY

Mar 11, 1938

Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss(Union).

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

Kristallnacht (nationwide pogrom in Germany).

WORLD WAR

Aug 23, 1939

Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.

Start of WWII

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe

ghetto

Oct 8, 1939

Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Pola

THe soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

Germany invades the Soviet Union.

Dead Jews

Jul 6, 1941

Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno.

Bishop Clemens August Graf

Aug 3, 1941

Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “euthanasia” killing program in a public sermon.

Einsatzgruppen

Sep 28, 1941

Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.

Jews killed from the Riga Ghetto

Nov 3, 1941

Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest.

Jews killed form the Minsk Ghetto

Nov 7, 1941

Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka).

Gassing Start

Mar 20, 1942

Mass gassing starts

Crematorium

Oct 7, 1944

Prisoners blow-up one crematorium.

Death March

Jan 18, 1945

Evacuation of the camp begins (Death March).

Jews are Freed

Jan 27, 1945

The Camp gets liberated by the Red Army.