holocaust 1932-1945

  • Hitler is appointed

    Hitler is appointed
    Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
  • First concentration camps

    First concentration camps
    The Nazis open a couple concentration camps called Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrück (only for women).
  • No more land for jews

    No more land for jews
    The Nazis prohibit jews from owning land. They had their land tooken away from them by the Nazis.
  • Jews denied national health care

    Jews denied national health care
    The Jews are deprived of their national health care. Jews can no longer get health care.
  • 90% vote rate

    90% vote rate
    Hitler receives a 90% vote rate from other germans that approve on his new laws and rules.
  • Jews cannot serve in the military

    Jews cannot serve in the military
    The jewish people are not allowed to serve in the military. If they are already serving, they get kicked out.
  • Forced abortions

    Forced abortions
    Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.
  • SS deathshead

    SS deathshead
    SS Deathshead division is established to guard concentration camps.
  • Heinrich Himmler

    Heinrich Himmler
    Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.
  • Not allowed practices

    Not allowed practices
    Jews are prohibited from all legal practices.
  • warshaw

    warshaw
    Warsaw is cut off by the German Army.
  • evacuation of jews

    evacuation of jews
    Evacuation of Jews from Vienna.
  • Required to wear yelloew stars

    Required to wear yelloew stars
    Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.
  • Pols for yellow stars

    Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.
  • Paris is occupied by the Nazis

  • Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz.

    Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz.
  • deaths

    Exterminations at Chelmno cease. The camp will be reactivated in the spring of 1944 to liquidate ghettos. In all, Chelmno will total 300,000 deaths.
  • jews arrive

    more jews arrive at camps
  • jews arrive

    • Jews from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz. Eichmann arrives to personally oversee and speed up the extermination process. By May 24, an estimated 100,000 have been gassed. Between May 16 and May 31, the SS report collecting 88 pounds of gold and white metal from the teeth of those gassed. By the end of June, 381,661 persons - half of the Jews in Hungary - arrive at Auschwitz.
  • jews escape

    Two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp during a revolt. Nazis then hunt them down one by one.
  • evacuation of jews

    The Danish Underground helps transport 7,220 Danish Jews to safety in Sweden by sea.
  • rounded up jews

    Jews in Rome rounded up, with over 1,000 sent to Auschwitz
  • russians reached the boarder

    Russian troops reach former Polish border.
  • transportaion of jews

    First transports of Jews from Athens to Auschwitz, totaling 5,200 persons
  • d-day

    D-Day: Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France.
  • another evacuation

    Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz.
  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide
    Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker. (on my birthday)
  • freeing from camps

    Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
  • Theresienstadt taken over by the Red Cross.

    Theresienstadt taken over by the Red Cross.