Holocaust Timeline

The Holocaust
Date	Summary	Detailed Information
30th January 1933	Hitler Chancellor of Germany	Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany
22nd March 1933	First concentration camp opened	The first concentration camp was opened at Dachau in Germany
1st April 1933	Jewish shops boycotted	Germans were told not to buy from Jewish shops or businesses
24th November 1933	'Undesirables' sent to camps	Homeless, alcoholic and unemployed people were sent to concentration camps
17th May 1934	Jewish persecution	An order was issued which prohibited Jewish people from having health insurance
15th September 1935	Nuremberg Laws	The Nuremberg Laws were introduced. These laws were designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship and included orders that: Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens. Jews cannot marry non-Jews. Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews.
13th March 1938	Austrian Jews persecuted	Following Anschluss which joined Germany and Austria, Jews in Austria were persecuted and victimised.
8th July 1938	Munich synagogue destroyed	The Jewish synagogue in Munich was destroyed
5th October 1938	Jewish passports stamped with 'J'	The passports of all Austrian and German Jews had to be stamped with a large red letter 'J'
9th November 1938	Kristallnacht	A night of extreme violence.Approximately 100 Jews were murdered, 20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps, Hundreds of synagogues burned, and the Windows of Jewish shops  all over Germany and Austria smashed.
12th November 1938	Jews fined	Jews were made to pay one billion marks for the damage caused by Kristallnacht.
15th November 1938	Jewish children expelled from schools	An order was issued that stated that Jewish children should not be allowed to attend non-Jewish German schools
12th October 1939	Austrian and Czech Jews deported	Jews living in Austria and Czechoslovakia were sent to Poland
23rd November 1939	Yellow Star introduced	Jews in Poland were forced to sew a yellow star onto their clothes so that they could be easily identified.
Early 1940	European Jews persecuted	Jews in German occupied countries were persecuted by the Nazis and many were sent to concentration camps.
20th May 1940	Auschwitz	A new concentration camp, Auschwitz, opened
15th November 1940	Warsaw Ghetto	The Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off. There were around 400,000 Jewish people inside
July 1941	Einsatzgruppen	The Einsatzgruppen (killing squads) began rounding up and murdering Jews in Russia. 33,000 Jews are murdered in two days at Babi Yar near Kiev.
31st July 1941	'Final Solution'	Reinhard Heydrich chosen to implement ‘Final Solution’
8th December 1941	First 'Death Camp'	The first 'Death Camp' was opened at Chelmno.
January 1942	Mass-gassing	Mass-gassing of Jews began at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Summer 1942	European Jews gassed	Jews from all over occupied Europe were sent to 'Death Camps'
29th January 1943	Gypsies sent to camps	An order was issued for gypsies to be sent to concentration camps.
19th April - 16th May 1943	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	An order was issued to empty the Warsaw Ghetto and deport the inmates to Treblinka. Following the deportation of some Warsaw Jews, news leaked back to those remaining in the Ghetto of mass killings. A group of about 750 mainly young people decided that they had nothing to lose by resisting deportation. Using weapons smuggled into the Ghetto they fired on German troops who tried to round up inmates for deportation. They held out for nearly a month before they were taken by the Nazis and shot or sent to death camps.
Late 1943	'Death Camps' closed	With the Russians advancing from the East, many 'Death Camps' were closed and evidence destroyed.
14th May - 8th July 1944	Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz	440,000 Hungarian Jews were transported to Auschwitz
30th October 1944	Auschwitz	The gas chambers at Auschwitz were used for the last time
27th January 1945	'Death Marches'	Many remaining camps were closed and evidence of their existence destroyed. Those who had survived the camps so far were taken on forced 'Death Marches'.
30th April 1945	Hitler committed suicide	Faced with impending defeat, Hitler committed suicide
7th May 1945	German surrender	Germany surrendered and the war in Europe was over
20th November 1945	Nuremberg war trial began	Surviving Nazi leaders were put on trial at Nuremberg

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