The Holocaust

The Holocaust

Jan 30, 1933

The Holocaust began and Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.

Reichstag Building

Feb 27, 1933

Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.

Hitler

Feb 28, 1933

Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.

Banned

Jan 24, 1934

Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.

National health insurance

May 17, 1934

Jews not allowed national health insurance.

Nazi

May 21, 1935

Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.

Jewish Cultural Unions

Aug 6, 1935

Nazis force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions.

Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Nazis occupy the Rhineland.

Nazis and Jews

Jul 6, 1938

Nazis prohibited Jews from trading and providing a variety of specified commercial services.

Goods

Feb 21, 1939

Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.

Vichy France

Jul 17, 1940

The first anti-Jewish measures are taken in Vichy France.

Kamenets-Podolski

Sep 27, 1941

23,000 Jews killed at Kamenets-Podolsk, in the Ukraine.

Auschwitz

Mar 30, 1942

First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz.

Gypsies

Jan 29, 1943

Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps.

Theresienstadi to Auschwitz

Oct 28, 1944

The last transport of Jews to be gassed, 2,000 from Theresienstadt, arrives at Auschwitz.

Americans

Apr 30, 1945

Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.

Red Cross

May 2, 1945

Theresienstadt taken over by the Red Cross

WW2

May 8, 1945

For the western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8

Survivors

May 9, 1945

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied powers.

Work sited page

May 8, 2015

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