Holocaust

  • Warsaw ghetto

    sealed off the Warsaw ghetto
  • invasion of the Soviet Union

    invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen and Waffen SS units
  • Period: to

    the Jew deportation from Germany and it's allies

    Nazi Germany and its Allies deported nearly three million Jews from areas under their control to Nazi-occupied Poland
  • Period: to

    major deportation to killing centers

    Germany and German-occupied Europe were deported by rail to the killing centers in occupied Poland, where they were killed
  • Jews ferried from denmark

    ferried 7,200 Jews or about 90 percent of the Jews in Denmark.
  • End of holocaust

    The marches continued until May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.
  • end of WW II

    World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8, while Soviet forces announced their “Victory Day” on May 9, 1945.
  • The last camp

    The last camp for Jewish displaced persons closed in 1957.