Holocaust Timeline
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the Holocaust Timeline
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The Holocaust Timeline for kids
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1933 - January 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed
Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg
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1933 - March 20, 1933: The Nazi government establishes
the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich as "the first
concentration camp for political prisoners."
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1933 - April 1, 1933: Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and
businesses in Germany. Hitler's 'brownshirts' stand outside Jewish
shops and persuade Germans to boycott them.
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1933 - July 14, 1933: Law for the Prevention of Progeny
with Hereditary Diseases forcing the sterilization of all persons
who suffered from hereditary diseases, mental illnesses and physical
deformities
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1934 - Jews were banned from sitting
university exams
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1935 - Summer 1935: Anti-Jewish propaganda
escalates as 'Jews not wanted here' posters flood
Germany
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1935 - September 15, 1935: Nuremberg Race
Laws that deprived Jewish people of their civil rights.
Jews were forbidden to vote, to go out at night or to
marry Germans.
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1936 - Jewish people were forbidden to be lawyers,
doctors or teachers.
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1938 - 9 November 1938: Kristallnacht,
meaning "Night of Broken Glass" was when Jewish
businesses, synagogues and homes were violently
destroyed throughout Germany, Austria and
Czechoslovakia. Many Jewish men were killed or put in
concentration camps.
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1939 - January 1939: Hitler accuses the
Jewish people of stirring up other countries against
Germany and threatens them with annihilation if a war
breaks out.
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1939 - September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland,
starting WW2 in Europe.
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1939 - October 8, 1939: Germans establish a ghetto in
Piotrkow, Poland.
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1940 - Jewish people were forced to leave their homes
and go to live in Jewish 'ghettos', where they were forbidden to
earn a wage and many thousands of men, women and children starved to
death.
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1941 - All Jewish people were forced to wear a yellow
Star of David on their clothes immediately identifying them as Jews.
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1941 - July 6, 1941: Squads composed of German SS and
police called Einsatzgruppen (meaning mobile killing units) began
the systematic massacres of Jews in several of the forts around
Kovno, Lithuania
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1941 - September 28-29, 1941: Einsatzgruppen squads
shoot 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev in the Ukraine.
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1941 - Nazi Einsatzgruppen squads escalate across
eastern Europe and murder over a million Jewish people.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1941 - December 7, 1941: Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
without warning and the United States enters WW2.
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detailed below. The history of the Holocaust is told in a
factual timeline sequence consisting of a series of short facts
and dates providing a simple method of relating the
history and the important events
of the Holocaust.
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Holocaust
Timeline: 1942 - January 16, 1942: Nazis begin the mass
deportation of over 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing
center.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1942 - January 20, 1942: The Wannsee Conference is held
near Berlin, Germany where the decision is taken by the Nazis for a
'Final Solution to the Jewish Problem' – to exterminate all the
Jewish people in Europe.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1942 - Camps were built at places such as Auschwitz, and
Jewish people were rounded up and sent to their deaths.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1942 - March 27, 1942: Germans deport over 65,000 French
Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, France to Auschwitz.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1942 - July 15, 1942: The mass deportation of nearly
100,000 Dutch Jews from the Netherlands to Auschwitz
Holocaust
Timeline: 1942 - September 12, 1942: Mass deportation of over
265,000 Polish Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1942 - By the end of 1942, Jewish people were being
regularly transported by freight trains to specially built
extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, were
systematically killed in gas chambers.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1943 - April 19, 1943: Warsaw ghetto uprising begins as
Jewish underground organizations created an armed unit known as the
Jewish Combat Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB) and
members of the ghetto began to construct underground bunkers and
shelters. The Germans killed 7000 and captured over 50,000 who were
deported to concentration camps.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1944 - By the end of 1943 the Germans abandoned the
system of cramming people into ghettoes in favor of herding men,
women and children on to cattle cars to transport them to the
concentration and extermination camps.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1944 - May 15, 1944: Germans begin the mass deportation
of 440,000 Jews from Hungary.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1945 - January 18, 1945: Winter Death march of nearly
60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland.
As the Russians advanced, the SS guards marched the Jewish people to
concentration camps in the west such as Belsen in Germany.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1945 - January 27, 1945: Soviet troops liberate the
Auschwitz Concentration and Extermination Camp in Poland. It is
estimated that 1,600,000 people died at Auschwitz, about 1,300,000
were Jews and the remaining victims were gypsies, Poles and Soviet
prisoners of war.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1945 - April 29, 1945: American forces liberate the
Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
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Timeline: 1945 - April 30, 1945: Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
Holocaust
Timeline: 1945 - WW2 ended September 2, 1945 with the
unconditional surrender of all the Axis powers.
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Holocaust Timeline for kids - President Franklin Roosevelt Video
The article on the Holocaust Timeline provides detailed facts and a summary of one of the important events during his presidential term in office. The following
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