Timeline: WWII and Holocaust in Europe

Jan 30, 1933

Adolf Hitler elected chancellor of Germany

What started it all........... :(

Period: Jan 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945

WWII and Holocaust

Sep 15, 1935

Race laws against Jews decreed (everywhere except Denmark)

What led to the Holocaust, but Denmark was not part of this.

Sep 1, 1939

Start WWII in Europe, Germany invades Poland

The start of WWII in Europe

Sep 3, 1939

Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

When France and Great Britain got involved.

Apr 9, 1940

Germany took control of Denmark

This event is significant because now the Jews in Denmark are in trouble, and Germany is now in control of Denmark.

Apr 9, 1940

Exclution of Denmark's Jews from final solution

Germany decided "for now" that since there were not many jews in Denmark that they would exclude them from hitler's final solution. Germany was also friends with Denmark.

Jan 20, 1942

Hitler's final solution

This caused the rest of europe's jews to be deported to concentration camps.

Sep 9, 1943

Hitler preposes deportation of jews in Denmark

This is why the Rosens had to leave denmark, and Germany decided that the Jews in Denmark would no longer be excluded from the final solution.

Oct 1, 1943

Roundup of Jews in Denmark

The Danish government and the resistance refused to let them take the Jews.

Nov 1, 1943

Jews travel to Sweden safely

Resistance workers and the danish government work to move the jews to sweden. 7,200 got to sweden safly, and only 700 went to concentration camps. at the time that was very little.