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Events in terms of Jewish life and concentration camps
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Hitler's Final solution- The Holocaust
Hitler decides that the only and"final solution of the Jewish question" is to commit mass genocide. The treatment of Jews at this time was horrendous because they were rounded up like cattle and sent, ultimately, to slaughter. 6 million jews were slaughtered in the whole time of the holocaust. There were two stages to the internment process. There were the work camps that produced munitions that were vital to the nazi regime, and there were the death camps. These camps gassed and burned Jews. -
Dauchau opens
Dauchau opened by Heinrich Himmler who called it "The first concentration camp for political prisoners." This concentration camp was made on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory and paved the way for more lethal and brutal concentration camps -
The Nuremberg Laws
The Neremberg laws was a series of two laws that forbade Jews from marrying Germans, and it also forbade German women from being employed in Jewish households. This was the Law for the protection of German Blood and German Honor. The second law was the Reich Citizenship Law, which stripped Jews of all citizenship rights and split the nation into Aryan's and Jews. -
Nazi's burn a synagogue in Nuremberg
This was important to the undermining of Jews in the Holocaust because this was destruction of one of their holy places and a place that held special meaning to the Jews. -
Kristallnacht- Night of broken glass
Kristallnacht was a very violent outburst of anti-semetic feelings in Germany, Annexed Austria, and areas of Sudentenland. The term Kristallnacht came from the amount of broken glass that lined the streets of Germany. Kristallnacht was blamed on a spontaneous outburst of public sentiment that came from the assassination of Ernst Vom Rath, a German embassy official. -
Nazi's fine Jews for Kristallnacht
After the riots of Kristallnacht, the Nazi's decided to fine the jews one billion marks for damages done during the riots. This only puts more oppression and strife in Jewish life. -
Nazi's force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items
Nazi's force Jews to give up all valuables in order for the Nazi's to fund their war effort. This only led the Jews deeper into debt. -
Jews moved to Ghetto's
Jews are forced to give up their rights to their own houses and are moved into segregated Ghettos to keep them seperate from the rest of the world. -
Nazi's invade Poland
The Nazi's invade Poland which has a Jewish population of 3.35 million Jews. This is Europe's largest Jewish population and it has just fallen to the most Anti-Semetic man in all of history. -
Nazi's invade Russia
When the Nazi's invaded Russia, it was not only and invasion that was happening. This invasion broke the agreement between Hitler and Stalin saying that they were "partners" in the war. Russia also housed a Jewish population of 3 million at this time. -
Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard was the beginning of the most brutal part of the Holocaust. Operation Reinhard was the reason that the death factories at places like Sobibor, and Treblinka existed. It is said that up to 2million Jews were murdered at the factories that were enforced by Operation Reinhard. The whole Operation was named after Reinhard Heydrich who had a key role in the formation of nazi death camps. -
German's begin to employ more death tactics
The burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place or burial or gas chambers. Although the gas chambers were still used, burning was a "better" option because it would prevent the fouling of the ground water. Due to the sheer number of Jews being deployed to work and death camps, many camps were forced to open another gas chamber or more furnaces so that they could meet the demans of the number of Jews flooding in. -
First liberation of Nazi concentration camps
Soviet forces reach the first Nazi death camp (Majdanek, near Lublin Poland) and liberate the prisoners. Many of the prisoners were suffering from starvation, poor hygene, and awful living conditions. The Gastapo had fled when they realized that all hope was lost. -
Israel is declared a state
Israel is declared an independent state for Jewish people. This new state allows Jews to return to their homeland and it also allows them to go back to their roots of their religion. -
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was established in order to set the basis of all human rights law. These rights include unaliable human rights and a common standard of acheivement for all countries.
