The Holocaust By Olivia Pacheco Jan 30, 1933 President Hidenburg makes Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany. Feb 28, 1933 The Goverment takes away freedom of speech. Mar 20, 1933 First concentration camps held political enemies. Apr 7, 1933 Jews are fired from all jobs. Oct 19, 1933 Germany leaves The League of Nations. Aug 3, 1934 Hitler declares himself president of the Third Reich after Hindenburg's death Oct 1, 1934 First big wave of arrest of homosexuals. Oct 31, 1934 End of the first big wave of arrest of homosexuals. May 1, 1935 No Jew signs put up in towns restaurants ect. Aug 1, 1936 Olympic Games take place in Berlin. Anti Jew signs taken down until Games end. Aug 16, 1936 Olympics games end signs put back up Jul 16, 1937 Bunchenwald concentration camp opens. Apr 23, 1938 Government says Jews must carry identification cards. Nov 9, 1938 Nazi's burn 100's of synagogues, Jews beaten and killed and put in concentration camps. Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland, WW II starts. Oct 1, 1939 Hitler extends power to doctors to kill the mentally and phisically disabled. Mar 1, 1940 Germany invades and defeats Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and France. May 1, 1940 About 164,000 Polish Jews put and imprisoned in the Lódz ghetto Oct 3, 1940 Anti Jew laws passed by France Goverment. May 15, 1941 Romania passed law for forced work by adult Jews Jun 22, 1941 Germany invades Soviet Union. Mass killings of Jews, Gypsies, and communist leaders Sep 1, 1941 Jew age 6 and up wear a Star Of David on their clothes with Jude written in black Sep 28, 1941 34,00 Jews murdered by mobile killing squads near Keiv, Ukraine Dec 11, 1941 Germany declares war on U.S. Jan 1, 1942 Nazi extermination camps start mass murders of Jew by killing them with gas thru the whole year Jan 20, 1942 Nazi and Goverment leaders discuss the final solution of Jews Jun 1, 1942 Treblinka death camp opens Oct 4, 1942 All Jews in concentration camps sent to death camps. Jun 1, 1943 Nazi's order ghettos in Poland and Soviet Union demolished Sep 22, 1943 During the fall Danish citizens smuggle Jews to Sweden May 15, 1944 Nazi's deport Jews from Hungary. 430,000 Jews mostly killed by being gassed Jun 6, 1944 Allied powers invade Normandy Jun 20, 1944 German officers attemp and fail to kill Hitler Apr 30, 1945 Hitler Commits suicide May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders war in Europe ends