The Holocaust Timeline

  • January 30, 1933

    January 30, 1933
    Adolf Hitler is appointed as Chancellor of Germany. Currently the Jewish population at that time was 566,000 people.
  • March 24, 1933

    March 24, 1933
    The German Parliament passes "The Enabling Act" giving Hitler the dictatorial powers he wanted.
  • July 14, 1933

    July 14, 1933
    The Nazi party is declared ad the only legal party in Germany. The Nazi's also pass a law that allows them to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their german citizenship.
  • January 24, 1934

    January 24, 1934
    Jews are officially banned from the German Labor Front. This mean Jews are not allowed to apply for new jobs through the government.
  • January, 1937

    January, 1937
    Throughout this month, Jews are being banned from many professional occupations for example teaching other Germans, being accountants, or working as dentist. They are also being denied tax reductions and child allowances from the government.
  • November 23, 1939

    November 23, 1939
    Yellow stars are required and have to be worn by Polish Jews over the age of 10 years old.
  • April 30, 1940

    April 30, 1940
    The first ghetto (Lodz Ghetto) in Poland was sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 Jews locked inside.
  • December 11, 1941

    December 11, 1941
    Hitler declares war on The United States Army.
  • January, 1942

    January, 1942
    A mass killing of jews on the concentration camp Auschwitz takes off using Zyklon-B, mass graves where dug up with tons of body's inside them.
  • January 24, 1944

    January 24, 1944
    President Roosevelt starts to feel the heat from political pressure to help the Jews under Nazi control. President Roosevelt creates the war refugee board.
  • November 8, 1944

    November 8, 1944
    The Nazis force 25,000 Jews to walk over 100 miles in the rain and snow from Budapest all the way to Austrian border.
  • April 30, 1945

    April 30, 1945
    Hitler commits suicide as The United States Army free's 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.