The Holocaust Timeline

  • Hitler becomes leader

    Hitler becomes leader
    Hitler becomes leader of Germany by convincing the people of Germany he will make Germany great at public speakings.
  • Jews and rights

    Jews deprived of their basic rights and citizenship.
  • Jews barred

    Jews banned from serving in the German armed forces.
  • Camp opens

    Buchenwald concentration camps open as more and more jews are being captued.
  • Identity Cards

    Jews over the age of 15 are ordered to apply for identity cards from the police. They much show them whenever theyre ordered to.
  • Kids expelled

    All kids expelled from Germany school.
  • Pearl Harbor

    The President, FDR, said that this day will ly in ïnfamy´´ That day was the attack on Pearl Harbor. This is what caused the USA to declare war.
  • Massive killings

    In the month of January there was masive killings of jews that began to take place att Auschwitz-Birkenau. The bodies were buried in mass graves nearby.
  • In New York...

    In New York, American Jews hold a mass rally at Madison Square Garden to try and pressure the U.S. government into helping the European Jews.
  • Russian troops

    Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp at Majdanek. Over 360,000 Jews had been murdered there.
  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide in his bunker by taking cyanide and shooting himself in Berlin after the Allied forces reached Berlin only months before the war ends.