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The Years of the Holocaust
Between theses years was the years a group of people who went through tragedy and pain -
Dachau Concentration Camp
The camp was located near Munich, and was followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women. -
The First to the Camps
Nazi's pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps. -
Laws against Jews
It deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help. -
Being Banned
Jews are banned from many professional occupations. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances. This was enforced throughout the month of January. -
Kristallnacht
A massive, attack on Jews throughout the German Reich. 17 year old Jew shot and killed a member of the German Embassy. Jewish stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed. 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps. Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers.Over 1,000 synagogues were burned and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged. -
The Ghetto
The first large ghetto of World War II at Piotrków Trybunalski was established, Life in the Ghetto were unbearable, human waste was thrown in the streets along with the garbage, diseases spread rapidly and people were always hungry. Germans would starve the Jews by only purchasing only a small amount of bread, potatoes, and fat. -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz I was the first camp to be established near Oswiecim. Construction began in April 1940 in an abandoned Polish army barracks in a suburb of the city. SS authorities continuously used prisoners for forced labor to expand the camp. -
23,000
Troops under the command of the Higher SS and Police Leader for the southern region, SS General Friedrich Jeckeln, carried out mass killings of the Jewish deportees as well as the local Jewish population. A total of 23,600 Jews were killed at Kamenets-Podolsk, in the Ukraine. -
Mass Killings
Killings of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow. There is no exact date of when this happened. -
Gas Chambers
Report have shown that over 97,000 people have been killed using gas vans and chambers at this time. The Nazis had experimented with gas chambers and vans throughout the Holocaust. They believed it was the quickest way to kill someone who was unfit to work, but at the camp Auschwitz they were used for mass murders. -
Death
On this date the number of Jews killed by SS Einsatzgruppen passes one million. Nazis then use special units of slave laborers to dig up and burn the bodies to remove all traces that the Nazis were there. -
More Gas Chambers
Many Gas chambers were ordered to be built. Throughout the month of March they opened up in most of the death camps. Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka were two of the worst death camps that killed over 20,000 people daily. -
The Escape
About two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp (Death Camps) during a revolt. Nazis then tried to hunt the escapes down one by one. -
Freedom
Russians liberate at Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews, this gave them hope in the end. This was first step to the end of the war. -
Bergen- Belsen
About 40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen by the British troops, the men reported "both inside and outside the huts was a carpet of dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth."
