Major Events during the Holocaust

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  • Hitler's rise to power

    Adolf Hitler appointed as chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, Hittler was also known as Third Reich

  • Holocaust

    The Holocaust starts

  • Book Burning

    On May 10, 1933, university students burn upwards of 25,000 “un-German” books in Berlin’s Opera Square. Some 40,000 people gather to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!”

  • German Jews

    German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs.

  • Auschwitz Camp Established

    SS authorities establishes the Auschwitz Camp.

  • Jews arrested

    3,600 Jews arrested in Paris.

  • Gas vans

    Gas vans also appeared on the eastern front in late fall 1941.

  • Jewish Badge

    They used the badge not only to stigmatize and humiliate Jews but also to segregate them, to watch and control their movements, and to prepare for deportation.

  • Liberation of Warsaw

    Liberation of Warsaw by the Russians.

  • End of Holocaust

    The holocaust is now over