A Timeline of the Holocuast
January 1933
Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany
March 1933 The first concentration camp was opened at Dachau in Germany
April 1933 Germans were told not to buy from Jewish shops or businesses
November 1933 Homeless, alcoholic and unemployed people were sent to concentration camps
May 1934 An order was issued which prohibited Jewish people from having health insurance
September 1935 The Nuremberg Laws were introduced. These laws were designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship and included orders that:Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens. Jews cannot marry non-Jews. Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews.
March 1938 Jews in Austria were persecuted and victimised.
July 1938 The Jewish synagogue in Munich was destroyed
October 1938 The passports of all Austrian and German Jews had to be stamped with a large red letter 'J'
November 1938 Kristallnacht: A night of extreme violence. (Approximately 100 Jews were murdered, 20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps, Hundreds of synagogues burned, and the windows of Jewish shops all over Germany and Austria smashed.)
November 1938 Jews were made to pay one billion marks for the damage caused by Kristallnacht.
November 1938 Jewish children expelled from non-jewish schools
October 1939 Jews living in Austria and Czechoslovakia were sent to Poland
November 1939 Jews in Poland were forced to sew a yellow star onto their clothes so that they could be easily identified.
Early 1940 Jews in German occupied countries were persecuted by the Nazis and many were sent to concentration camps.
May 1940 A new concentration camp, Auschwitz, opened
November 1940 The Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off, closing 400,000 Jewish people inside
July 1941 Einsatzgruppen (killing squads) began rounding up and murdering Jews in Russia. 33,000 Jews were murdered in two days at Babi Yar near Kiev.
July 1941 Reinhard Heydrich chosen to implement ‘Final Solution’
December 1941 The first Death Camp was opened at Chelmno.
January 1942 Mass-gassing of Jews began at Auschwitz
Summer 1942 Jews from all over occupied Europe were sent to Death Camps
January 1943 An order was issued for gypsies to be sent to concentration camps also.
April - May 1943 An order was issued to empty the Warsaw Ghetto and deport the inmates to Treblinka. Following the deportation of some Warsaw Jews, news leaked back to those remaining in the Ghetto of mass killings. A group of about 750 mainly young people decided that they had nothing to lose by resisting deportation. Using weapons smuggled into the Ghetto they fired on German troops who tried to round up inmates to deport. They held out for nearly a month before they were taken by the Nazis and shot or sent to death camps.
October 1943 Jews in Denmark were rescued
Late 1943 With the Russians advancing from the East, many Death Camps were closed and evidence destroyed.
May - July 1944 440,000 Hungarian Jews were transported to Auschwitz
August 1944 Allied forces land in southern France
October 1944 The last time the gas chambers were used in Auschwitz
January 1945 Soviet troops liberate Jews at Auschwitz
January 1945 Many remaining camps were closed and evidence of their existence destroyed. Those who had survived the camps so far were taken on forced "Death Marches"
April 1945 American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp
April 1945 Hitler committed suicide
May 1945 Germany surrendered and the war in Europe was over
November 1945 Surviving Nazis were put on trial at Nuremberg
This video is a verbal representation of the Holocaust timeline. It tells the important events that occured during the Holocaust between the years 1939-1945.
March 1933 The first concentration camp was opened at Dachau in Germany
April 1933 Germans were told not to buy from Jewish shops or businesses
November 1933 Homeless, alcoholic and unemployed people were sent to concentration camps
May 1934 An order was issued which prohibited Jewish people from having health insurance
September 1935 The Nuremberg Laws were introduced. These laws were designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship and included orders that:Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens. Jews cannot marry non-Jews. Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews.
March 1938 Jews in Austria were persecuted and victimised.
July 1938 The Jewish synagogue in Munich was destroyed
October 1938 The passports of all Austrian and German Jews had to be stamped with a large red letter 'J'
November 1938 Kristallnacht: A night of extreme violence. (Approximately 100 Jews were murdered, 20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps, Hundreds of synagogues burned, and the windows of Jewish shops all over Germany and Austria smashed.)
November 1938 Jews were made to pay one billion marks for the damage caused by Kristallnacht.
November 1938 Jewish children expelled from non-jewish schools
October 1939 Jews living in Austria and Czechoslovakia were sent to Poland
November 1939 Jews in Poland were forced to sew a yellow star onto their clothes so that they could be easily identified.
Early 1940 Jews in German occupied countries were persecuted by the Nazis and many were sent to concentration camps.
May 1940 A new concentration camp, Auschwitz, opened
November 1940 The Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off, closing 400,000 Jewish people inside
July 1941 Einsatzgruppen (killing squads) began rounding up and murdering Jews in Russia. 33,000 Jews were murdered in two days at Babi Yar near Kiev.
July 1941 Reinhard Heydrich chosen to implement ‘Final Solution’
December 1941 The first Death Camp was opened at Chelmno.
January 1942 Mass-gassing of Jews began at Auschwitz
Summer 1942 Jews from all over occupied Europe were sent to Death Camps
January 1943 An order was issued for gypsies to be sent to concentration camps also.
April - May 1943 An order was issued to empty the Warsaw Ghetto and deport the inmates to Treblinka. Following the deportation of some Warsaw Jews, news leaked back to those remaining in the Ghetto of mass killings. A group of about 750 mainly young people decided that they had nothing to lose by resisting deportation. Using weapons smuggled into the Ghetto they fired on German troops who tried to round up inmates to deport. They held out for nearly a month before they were taken by the Nazis and shot or sent to death camps.
October 1943 Jews in Denmark were rescued
Late 1943 With the Russians advancing from the East, many Death Camps were closed and evidence destroyed.
May - July 1944 440,000 Hungarian Jews were transported to Auschwitz
August 1944 Allied forces land in southern France
October 1944 The last time the gas chambers were used in Auschwitz
January 1945 Soviet troops liberate Jews at Auschwitz
January 1945 Many remaining camps were closed and evidence of their existence destroyed. Those who had survived the camps so far were taken on forced "Death Marches"
April 1945 American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp
April 1945 Hitler committed suicide
May 1945 Germany surrendered and the war in Europe was over
November 1945 Surviving Nazis were put on trial at Nuremberg
This video is a verbal representation of the Holocaust timeline. It tells the important events that occured during the Holocaust between the years 1939-1945.