Time Line of the Holocaust

By Jovan F

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg and further led to the development of the Nazi power

  • first concentration camp opened

    Hitler opened the first concentration camp in Dachau

  • Jewish shops are boycotted

    Germans where told not to buy from Jewish shops or businesses
    by means of propaganda and other sources

  • ‘Undesirables’ sent to camps

    Homeless, alcoholic and unemployed people were sent to concentration camps

  • Jewish persecution

    An order was issued which prohibited Jewish people from having health insurance

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws were introduced. These laws were designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship and included orders that:
    Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens.
    Jews cannot marry non-Jews.
    Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews.

  • Austrian Jews persecuted

    Following Anschluss which joined Germany and Austria, Jews in Austria were persecuted and victimised.

  • Munich synagogue destroyed

    The Jewish synagogue in Munich was destroyed

  • Jewish passports stamped with ‘J’

    The passports of all Austrian and German Jews had to be stamped with a large red letter ‘J’

  • Kristallnacht

    A night of extreme violence.
    Approximately 100 Jews were murdered,
    20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps, Hundreds of synagogues burned, and the
    Windows of Jewish shops all over Germany and Austria smashed.