TIMELINE HOLOCAUSTO

  • Fanny Wertheimer Valfer born in Kipenheim, Germany

  • Fanny Wertheimer Valfer married Max Valfer

  • Valfer children had managed to leave Kippenheim and immigrate to safety

  • Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

  • Reichstag Fire Decree

    declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties.
  • Dachau Concentration Camp opened

  • Enabling Act

  • First boycotts of Jewish businesses

  • Approval of Civil Service Law

    It removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from civil service positions and government jobs
  • Approval of the Education Law

    It stated that Jewish students could not be more than 5% of the student population of any public school or university, being forced to leave public schools.
  • Approval of the Sterilization Law

    It allowed the Government to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental disabilities not to have children.
  • Approval of the Press Censorship Law

  • Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”

  • Approval of the mandatory military service

  • Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization

  • Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”, being excluded of being accounted as German population

  • Approval of the Laws of Nuremberg

  • Ruth imigrated to US

  • Hugo immigrated to US with the help of Ruth

  • Max and Fanny joined the waiting list of US immigration visas

  • Annexation of Austria

  • Jewish Name Law

    It forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names “Israel” for men and “Sara” for women.
  • Sudetenland, ceded to Germany

  • Polish Jews deported from Germany

  • Period: to

    Kristallnacht

  • Elsa left England and Erich went to Palestine

  • Karl and Freya traveled through Great Britain

  • Germany annexed Czechoslovakia

  • German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression

  • Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”

    It would cause 250,000 deaths.
  • Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War IIGermany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II

  • Karl and Freya made it to the US

  • Germany invaded Norway and Denmark

  • Germany invaded Western Europe

  • Italy declared war on Britain and France

  • First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz

  • Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definteliy formed.

  • The jews of Kipenheim, including the Valfers, were arrested and deported to Gurs interment camp

  • Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Germany invaded the Soviet Union

  • Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population.

  • Pearl Harbor attack by Japan

    USA ented into the World War II.
  • Pearl Harbor Attack

    Led the US to enter the WW2, the Valfers had to prove they were German and they weren't dangerous.
  • Mass murder began at Chelmno

    the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.
  • Valfers appointment

  • Wannsee Conference: approval of mass murder of Jews (“Final Solution”).

  • Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”, name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.

  • Fanny and Max Valfer were deported from France to Auschwitz killing center

  • Allied forces invaded North Africa

  • Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder.

  • German defeat at Stalingrad

  • first transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz.

  • Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise

  • Period: to

    Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces

  • Surrender of Italy

  • Germany occupied Hungary

  • Beginning of the Normandy landings

  • Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops

  • Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops

  • Surrender of Germany. End of the World War II in Europe