The Holocaust Timeline

Hitler becomes leader

Aug 2, 1934

Hitler becomes leader of Germany by convincing the people of Germany he will make Germany great at public speakings.

Jews and rights

Jan 1, 1935

Jews deprived of their basic rights and citizenship.

Jews barred

May 31, 1935

Jews banned from serving in the German armed forces.

Camp opens

Jul 15, 1937

Buchenwald concentration camps open as more and more jews are being captued.

Identity Cards

Jul 23, 1938

Jews over the age of 15 are ordered to apply for identity cards from the police. They much show them whenever theyre ordered to.

Kids expelled

Nov 15, 1938

All kids expelled from Germany school.

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

The President, FDR, said that this day will ly in ïnfamy´´ That day was the attack on Pearl Harbor. This is what caused the USA to declare war.

Massive killings

Jan 1, 1942

In the month of January there was masive killings of jews that began to take place att Auschwitz-Birkenau. The bodies were buried in mass graves nearby.

In New York...

Mar 4, 1943

In New York, American Jews hold a mass rally at Madison Square Garden to try and pressure the U.S. government into helping the European Jews.

Russian troops

Jul 24, 1944

Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp at Majdanek. Over 360,000 Jews had been murdered there.

Hitler commits suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Hitler commits suicide in his bunker by taking cyanide and shooting himself in Berlin after the Allied forces reached Berlin only months before the war ends.