Timeline of Holocaust

By willmcgregor

  • President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany

  • SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.

  • Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany

  • Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service

  • Nuremberg Race Laws

  • Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe

  • Einsatzgruppen shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort

  • Einsatzgruppe shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar

  • Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki

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

  • Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz)

  • Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to the east (primarily to Auschwitz)

  • Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center

  • Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka

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

  • Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland

  • Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex

  • American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide