The Holocaust

  • Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany

    Nazis organized a massive torchlight parade to celebrate Hitler as Chancellor
  • Jews are banned from the German Labor Front

    Jews were banned from German labor front. it was a labor organized with the Nazi party
  • Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.

    In 1935 the military prohibited Jews from joining its ranks
  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law

    the Gestapo is associated with SS Leader Heinrich Himmler. it was founded by Herman Goring in April 1933.
  • Austrian Jews persecuted

    Following Aeschylus which joined Germany and Austria, Jews in Austria were persecuted and victimized
  • Austrian and Czech Jews deported

    Jews living in Austria and Czechoslovakia were sent to Poland
  • Auschwitz camp

    A new concentration camp called Auschwitz opened
  • Einsatzgruppen

    The Einsatzgruppen began rounding up and murdering Jews in Russia 33,000 Jews were murdered in two days at Babi Yar near Kiev
  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    A group of about 750 mainly young people decided that they had nothing to lose by resisting deportation Using weapons brought into the Ghetto they shot on German troops who tried to gather inmates for deportation
  • Death Marches

    Many remaining camps were closed and evidence of their existence destroyed. Those who had survived the camps so far were taken on forced Death Marches