Holocaust Timeline

Sophia, Fadi and Nevaeh

What is the Holocaust?

It is the mass murder of Jews during World
War II under the German Nazi regime.

April 1933
The first laws against Jews are announced,
limiting Jewish participation in German public
life.

17th May 1934

Jews are not allowed national health insurance or
legal qualifications.

September 1935
The Nuremberg Laws, which discriminated against
Jews, are announced by the Nazi party leaders.

Summer and Winter 1936

During the Olympic games held in Berlin, the Nazi
s stopped anti-Jewish activities and signs.

This sign means

Jews are not served
here.

January 1937
Nazi leaders began to dismiss Jewish workers and
forced them to register their property.

September 1938
Jews are banned from all schools and all public
places. Jewish doctors couldnt treat Aryan
patients. They were also forbidden to enter special
Aryan places.
This sign means
Jews not found
here.

Autumn 1938
Jews had to carry their identity cards at all times.
Their passports were stamped with aJ to show
that they were Jewish.

21st February 1939

All Jews were forced to give up their gold and silver
items.

30th April 1939

Jewish people had to give up their houses and
move into Jewish homes.

25th January 1940

The first concentration camp is created in Poland.

30th April 1940

The Lodz Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto were shut
off from the rest of the world with 630,000 Jews
inside.

January 1941
A pogrom in Romania kills over 12,000 Jews.

2nd March 1941

The Nazis occupy Bulgaria which is home to
more than 50,000 Jews.

1st September 1941

All German Jews are told to wear yellow stars.

3rd September 1941

The gas Zyklon-B is used on prisoners in
Auschwitz.

8th December 1941

Lodz extermination camp locks Jews in mobile gas
vans to kill them.

31st January 1942

By now at least 229,000 Jews have been
murdered.

17th March 1942

Bulgaria objects to the deportation of its Jews.

1st June 1942

Jews in France, Holland, Belgium,
Croatia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and
Romania are ordered to wear
yellow stars on their arms.

10th December 1942

Many Jews in concentration camps are deported to
Auschwitz to be killed.

28th December 1942

Nazi scientists began experiments on Jewish
women.

18th January 1943

Over a million Jews are dead. Jews resist the
Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto.

29th January 1943

Gypsies are arrested and sent to extermination
camps.

1st March 1943

Jews hold rallies in New
York to get the US
government to help
European Jews.

October 1943
The Danish underground helps to transport over
7000 Jews to safety in Sweden.

November 1943
More than three Ghettos are closed down.

7th April 1944

Three Jews escape from Auschwitz, cross the
border into Czechoslovakia for safety and warn
the council.

12th June 1944

More than 40,000 Polish children are taken for slave
labor.

July 1944
A Swedish diplomat saves nearly 33,000 Jews
in Hungary and Budapest by signing diplomatic
papers and starting safe houses.

30th October 1944

Auschwitz stops using Gas chambers.

6th January - 23rd April 1945

Russia invades Budapest, Eastern Germany,
Poland, Auschwitz and Berlin saving more than
2,200,000 lives.

15th April 1945

Britain saves 40,000 lives by freeing prisoners
at Bergen-Belsen.

30th April 1945

33,000 lives are saved by
the Americans who freed
them from concentration
camps. Hitler commits
suicide in his Bunker in
Berlin.

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