holocaust

By raj_rahman

  • Auschwitz

    Auschwitz
    Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.
  • Period: to

    the holocaust

  • poland

    First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.

  • denmark and norway

    Nazis invade Denmark (Jewish pop. 8,000) and Norway (Jewish pop. 2,000)

  • pearl harbor

    pearl harbor
    Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

  • Chelmno extermination camp

    Chelmno extermination camp
    Chelmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp begins operations: 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs murdered by April 1943

  • America

    United States declares war on Japan and Germany

  • Germany

    germany declares war on the united states

  • Lodz

    Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.

  • rescue

    the resuce of jews from the country of denmark

  • Hungary

    german troops occupy Hungary.

  • Deportation

    Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary.

  • death march

    Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland.