The Holocaust Timeline

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  • Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor

    The Nazi Party gains control of the German state when President von Hindenberg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor
  • Establishment of Dachau

    Establishment of Dachau

    The SS establishes the Dachau concentration camp.
  • Anti-Jewish Boycott

    Anti-Jewish Boycott

    Members and supporters of the Nazi Party organize a nation-wide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
  • The Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws

    The German Parliament passes the Nuremberg laws, stripping Jews of their citizenship and basic rights.
  • Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

    Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

    Members and supporters of the Nazi Party organize an attack on the Jewish community. Synagogues are burned and Jewish homes and businesses are ransacked. At least 91 Jews are killed.
  • Warsaw Ghetto Sealed

    Warsaw Ghetto Sealed

    The Warsaw Ghetto is enclosed by walls over ten feet high and topped with barbed wire.
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp Established

    Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp Established

    SS authorities add the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau or Auschwitz II to the already existing largest concentration camp, Auschwitz.
  • Picture for Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Picture for Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Jewish resistance groups in the ghetto organize an uprising after learning of the German plan to liquidate the ghetto. Although vastly outnumbered and outgunned, they are able to fight the Nazis for almost a month.
  • Danish Jews Escape

    Danish Jews Escape

    The Danish underground moved approximately 7,200 Jews by boat to neutral Sweden after learning they are to be deported.
  • Soviet Forces Liberate Auschwitz

    Soviet Forces Liberate Auschwitz

    The Soviet army enters Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz and liberates about 7,000 prisoners.