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Timeline of the Holocaust

By pssenjuti
  • Adolf Hitler is appointed as the Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler is appointed as the Chancellor of Germany

    Aftermath-
    1. Dachau Concentration Camp opens
    2. Jewish shops and businesses are boycotted
    3. Gestapo established
  • Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor).

    Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor).

    Aftermath-
    The Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him
  • Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces

    Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces

    Aftermath-
    1. "Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag 2.Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew
  • Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions

    Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions

    What else happened-
    1.Himmler appointed the Chief of German Police
    2. Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens
    3. Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis
  • Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich

    Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich

    What are the other laws and regulations were imposed on jews?
    1. Adolf Eichmann establishes the Office of Jewish Emigration in Vienna to increase the pace of forced emigration
    2. 17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are stranded in the frontier village of Zbaszyn
    3. Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands
    4. All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools
  • Hitler in Reichstag speech: "if war erupts it will mean the Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews"

    Hitler in Reichstag speech: "if war erupts it will mean the Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews"

    What else happened after that-
    1. Germans occupy Czechoslovakia
    2. Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland
    3. Heydrich issues directives to establish ghettos in German-occupied Poland
    4. Germany begins deportation of Austrian and Czech Jews to Poland
    5. Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star
  • Auschwitz Concentration camp established

    Auschwitz Concentration camp established

    What else happened this year-
    1. Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
    2. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
    3. Warsaw Ghetto sealed: ultimately contained 500,000 people
  • Adolf Eichmann appointed head of the department for Jewish affairs of the Reich Security Main Office (Gestapo

    Adolf Eichmann appointed head of the department for Jewish affairs of the Reich Security Main Office (Gestapo

    What else happened after that-
    1. Germany invades the Soviet Union
    2. German Jews required to wear yellow star of David with the word "Jude"
    3. 34,000 Jews massacred at Babi Yar outside Kiev
    4. Establishment of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) for the extermination of Jews; Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and others were also murdered at the camp
    5. United States declares war on Germany
  • Wannsee Conference in Berlin: Heydrich outlines plan to murder Europe's Jews

    Wannsee Conference in Berlin: Heydrich outlines plan to murder Europe's Jews

    What else happened-
    1. Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center; by October 1943, 250,000 Jews murdered
    2. Jewish partisan units established in the forests of Byelorussia and the Baltic States
    3. Germans establish Treblinka concentration camp
    4. Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin
  • German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad (Volgograd)

    German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad (Volgograd)

    What else happened after that-
    1. Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 inhabitants
    2. Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. On May 16, 1943, SS and Police Chief Jurgen Stroop proclaimed, "180 Jews, bandits, and subhumans were destroyed. The Jewish quarter of Warsaw is no more."
    3. Himmler orders the liquidation of all ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union
  • Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews; by June 27, 380,000 sent to Auschwitz

    Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews; by June 27, 380,000 sent to Auschwitz

    What else happened after that-
    1. D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy
    2. Red Army repels Nazi forces
    3. Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler
    4. Russians liberate Majdanek killing center
    5. Revolt by inmates at Auschwitz; one crematorium blown up
    6. Last Jews deported from Theresienstadt (Terezin) to Auschwitz
    7. Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria
  • Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march

    Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march

    What else happened after that-
    1. Hitler commits suicide
    2. V-E Day: Germany surrenders; end of Third Reich
    3. Japan surrenders; end of World War II