History of the Holocaust: Timeline



History of the Holocaust: Timeline

1933

The Nazi Party takes power in . Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor/prime minister of Germany-Nazis ‘temporarily’ suspend civil .

The Nazis set up the first at Dachau. The first inmates are 200 Communists.

with ideas considered dangerous to Nazi beliefs are .

1934

Hitler combines the positions of chancellor and president to become ‘Fuhrer’ or of Germany.

Jewish can no longer be sold in streets.

1935

Jews are deprived of their and other basic rights.

The Nazis intensify the persecution of political people that don’t agree with philosophy.

1936

Nazis Jewish-owned businesses.

The are held in Germany; signs barring Jews are removed until the event is over.

Jews no longer have the right to .

1938

take over Austria.

On Kristallnacht, the ‘Night of Broken Glass,’ Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria- Jews are arrested.

Jews must carry ID cards, and Jewish passports are marked with a .

All Jewish children are moved to schools.

Jewish businesses are ; they must sell businesses and hand over securities and

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Jews must hand over and car registrations.

Jews must be in certain at certain .

1939

Germany takes over Czechoslovakia and invades .

World War II begins as Britain and France on Germany.

Hitler orders that Jews must follow ; Jews must turn in radios to the police; Jews must wear of David.

1940

Nazis begin German Jews to Poland.

Jews are forced into .

Nazis begin the first of Jews in Poland.

Jews are put into .

1941

Germany attacks the .

Jews throughout Western are forced into ghettos.

Jews may not leave their houses without from the .

Jews may no longer use public .

1942

Nazi officials discuss the ‘Final Solution’ – their plan to all European Jews – to the government officials.

Jews are : subscribe to newspapers; keep dogs, cats, birds, etc.; keep electrical equipment including typewriters; own bicycles; buy meat, eggs, or milk; use public transportation; attend school.

1943

February: About 80 to 85 percent of the Jews who would in the Holocaust have already been

.

1944

Hitler takes over and begins deporting 12,000 Jews each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered.

1945

is defeated and World War II ends in Europe.

The is over and the death camps are empties.

Many are placed in displaced persons facilities.

1946

An Tribunal (judicial assembly is created by Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

At , Nazi leaders are tried for war crimes by the above judicial assembly.

1947

The United Nations establishes a Jewish in British-controlled , which becomes the State of .

Anne Frank

June 12, 1929 – March 1945

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“What’s the point of the war? Why, oh, why can’t people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction? There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again.”

- Anne Frank

May 3, 1944

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