Events
Hitler Appointed to ChancellorFirst Concentration CampBoycott of Jewish storesJews banned from office, university, and state positionsGestapo EstablishedJewish immigrants excluded from German CitizenshipHitler Proclaims himself FurherNuremberg Laws EnactedGeermany Defines a JewHimmler appointed ChiefSachsenhausen concentration camp opensBuchenwald concentration camp opens.Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the ReichAll Jewish pupils expelled from German schoolsHitler hints at extermination of JewsRavensbruck Camp OpensFirst Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow.Warsaw Ghetto sealed: ultimately contained 500,000 people.German authorities begin rounding up Polish Jews for transfer to Warsaw Ghetto. 10,000 Jews died by starvation in the ghetto between January and June 1941.Belzec extermination camp opens.Chelmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp begins operations: 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs murdered by April 1943.United States declares war on Japan and Germany.Wannsee Conference in Berlin: Heydrich outlines plan to murder Europe's Jews.Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center; by October 1943, 250,000 Jews murdered.Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers; Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin.German 6th Army surrenders at StalingradArmed revolt in Sobibor extermination campRescue of the Danish JewryNazis begin deporting Hungarian JewsD-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy.Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler.Revolt by inmates at AuschwitzLast Jews deported from Terezin to Auschwitz.Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death marchLiberation of Buchenwald.Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.Liberation of Sachsenhausen.Liberation of Flossenburg.Liberation of Dachau.Some
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happenedLiberation of Mauthausen.Germany attacks USSRJapan surrenders; end of World War IIGermany surrenders; end of Third ReichPeriods
Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered.bDozens thousands of Russian and Jews are murdered by the Einzatzgruppen (extermination squads) in the occupied territories
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