Holocaust Timeline

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  • Hitler Comes to Power

  • Reichstag Burning

  • "Emergency Rights" to Hitler

  • Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück camps opened

  • Nazi Germany Boycotts Jewish shops

  • Aryan/non-aryan seperation beginns

  • Nazi Party only Legal party in Germany

  • Jews are not allowed to own land

  • Jews are not allowed to be newspaper editors

  • National health insurance forbidden for Jews

  • Hitler becomes Führer

  • Jews banned from the army

  • Nuremburg race laws issued

  • Olympic games begin in Berlin - less restrictions for Jews

  • January: Jews have to withdraw from most jobs.

  • "Anschluss" of Austria to Germany

  • Jews have to register wealth and property

  • Jewish-owned buisnisses have to reigster

  • Jews are not allowed to sell and trade

  • Jews over 15 years have to apply for a card to show to police at all times

  • Jewish doctors are not allowed to work or give any medicine

  • Synagogue in Nuremberg is destroyed

  • Sirnames of all jews changed to "Sarah" or "Israel"

  • Jews prohibited from everything Legal

  • All idendity cards and passports of jews stamped with "J"

  • Kristallnacht - Night of broken glass

  • Kristallnacht - Night of broken glass

  • Jews have to pay 1,000,000,000 Mark for Kristallnacht damage

  • Jewish Students banned from non-Jewish schools

  • All Jewish buisinesses become "Aryan"

  • Göring takes charge of the "Jewish Question"

  • Hitler threatens Jews during speech

  • Jews have to hand over all Gold and Silver

  • Jews lose all rights

  • Jews are not allowed to have any government Jobs

  • Jews are forbidden to be outside after 8pm MET and 9pm MEST

  • Jews are prepared for deportation in Poland

  • Jews are forbidden to own radios

  • Polish Jews have to wear the Davids star

  • Auschwitz starts to be constructed

  • Several non-German countries degrade Jews

  • January: A progrom in Romania kills 2000 Jews

  • Jews are now deported from Amsterdam

  • Auschwitz is expanded, Birkenau opened

  • Forced labor beginns

  • Communists are officially bein dehumanized

  • Progrom in Romania, 10,000 Jews dead

  • Progrom in Romania, 10,000 Jews dead

  • Majdanek Concentration camp opened

  • Lithuania progrom kills 3800 jews

  • Lithuania progrom kills 3800 jews

  • All Jews have to wear yellow stars

  • Zyklon-B gas is first used at Auschwitz

  • Massive deportation beginns

  • 33,751 Jews killed near Kiev

  • 33,751 Jews killed near Kiev

  • October: 35,000 jews from Odessa shot

  • Jews are forbidden to emigrate

  • Mass shooting near Riga

  • Chelmno camp is opened

  • Gassing kills 5000 Gypsies and many Jews

  • January: Mass gassings in Auschwitz

  • March: Belzec camp is opened

  • Massive deportation

  • Massive deportation

  • Massive deportation

  • Massive deportation

  • Jews not allowed to use public transport

  • May: Sobibor camp opened

  • June: Gas vans in Riga

  • 2nd gas chamber at Auschwitz

  • Dutch Jews first deported to Auschwitz

  • Four gas chambers built at Auschwitz

  • Mass deportations

  • Mass deportations

  • Treblinka camp opened, 10 gas chambers

  • Less food rations for Jews

  • Confiscation of nearly everything begins

  • Revolt at Sachsenhausen ended by SS

  • Revolt at Sachsenhausen ended by SS

  • Massive deportations

  • Mass deportations

  • Experiments on women begin in Auschwitz

  • 1943: Over 1,000,000 Jews killed

  • All Gypsies will be deported and arrested

  • War turnes against Hiler

  • Jews making armoury in Berlin deported

  • Nes gas chamber at Auschwitz

  • New gas chamber at Auschwitz

  • New gas chamber at Auschwitz

  • New gas chamber at Auschwitz

  • 42,000 Jes killed in Poland

  • Mass deportations

  • 106 Deadly operations done at Auschwitz

  • Mass deportations

  • Mass deportations

  • Majdanek camp liberated

  • Gas chambers not used at Auschwitz

  • Massive death marches

  • Germany Surrenders