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Nazis Come to Power
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The Nazis come to power in Germany. -
Legal
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The Nazi Party is known as the only legal party in the country of Germany. Nazis pass a law that strips German citizenship from all Jewish immigrants from Poland. -
Identity Cards
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Jews over 15 years of age are required to apply for identity cards. They must be shown to anypolice officer that demands them. -
Kristallnacht
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Kristallnacht: The pogrom spanned the night of November 9 to 10. Raids, beatings, and killings occured. 191 synagogues were set on fire. The term Kristallnacht means "crystal" (like glass) "night". -
Students
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Jewish pupils expelled from any and all non-Jewish German schools. -
Oswiecim
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Nazis choose Oswiecim (Auschwitz), located in Poland, as the site of a concentration camp. -
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Auschwitz
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At Auschwitz, the largest death camp of the Nazi's, 1.1 million people were murdered. Auschwitz became a symbol of the Holocaust, of deaths, and of the devestating destruction of European Jewry. -
Chelmno
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In occupied Poland, Chelmno extermination camp begins to operate. The Jews are placed in mobile gas vans then driven to a burial place. Carbon monoxide is fed into the sealed rear compartment, coming from the engine exhaust, and kills them. -
Second Gas Chamber
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A second gas chamber, Bunker II (the white farmhouse), is made operational at Birkenau due to the number of Jews arriving in Auschwitz. -
Treblinka
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The Treblinka extermination camp opens in occupied Poland, to the east of Warsaw. The camp is holds two buildings which contain10 gas chambers, and each holds 200 people. Carbon monoxide gas is pumped in from engines that are placed outside the chamber. The bodies are burned in open pits. -
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Deaths by SS Einsatzgruppen
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Over one million Jews have been killed by SS Einsatzgruppen. The Nazis then to dig up and burn the bodies to remove all traces. -
Escape from Treblinka
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During a revolt, around 200 Jews escape from the Treblinka extermination camp. The Nazis begin to hunt them down one by one. -
Break Out
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A massive escape occurs from Sobibor when Jews and Soviet POWs break out. 300 safely make it into the nearby woods. Out of those 300, only fifty will survive.
Then, exterminations cease at Sobibor, at over 250,000 deaths occured. All traces of the camp are removed and trees are planted over the area. -
Escapees
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Two Jewish inmates are able to escape from the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and safely make it to Czechoslovakia. One of the two, Rudolf Vrba, reports to the Papal Nuncio in Slovakia which is then forwarded to the Vatican, which is received there mid-June. -
Nazis Seize Hungarian Government
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The Nazis seize control of the Hungarian government. They then resume to deport Jews. This had ceased, temporarily, because of international political pressure to stop the Jewish persecutions. -
Last Use
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Auchwitz has its last use of the its gas chambers. -
Liberating Auschwitz
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Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. An estimated 2,000,000 persons, which inscludes 1,500,000 Jews, had been murdered there.