- Collection:
- Georgia Government Publications
- Title:
- Timeline of the Holocaust: 1933-1945
- Creator:
- Georgia Commission on the Holocaust
- Contributor to Resource:
- Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945
Museum of Tolerance (Simon Wiesenthal Center) - Date of Original:
- 2012
- Subject:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Chronology
- Location:
- Europe, 48.69096, 9.14062
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018 - Medium:
- timelines (chronologies)
state government records - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Description based on online resource harvested on February 14, 2014 from holocaust.georgia.gov; title from PDF caption (Georgia Government Publications database, viewed August 20, 2015)
- External Identifiers:
- OCLC 919208922
NZ MMS ID 9910495624102931
Call Number G630.H6 M1 2012 T51 - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_ggpd_s-ga-bg630-ph6-bm1-b2012-bt51-belec-p-btext
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ggpd_s-ga-bg630-ph6-bm1-b2012-bt51-belec-p-btext
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (4 pages)
- Holding Institution:
- University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library
- Rights:
-
Timeline of the holocaust: 1933-1945
Museum of tolerance
January 30 March 22 April 1 April 7
May 10
1933
Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
Dachau concentration camp opens
Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
Laws for Re-establishment of the Civil Service barred Jews from holding civil service, university, and state positions Public burnings of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state
July 14
Law stripping East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship
September 15 November 15
1935
"Nuremberg Laws": Anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag
Germany defines a "Jew": Anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew
March 3 July
1936
Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions
Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens
July 15
1937
Buchenwald concentration camp opens
March 13
1938
Anschluss (incorporation of Austria): All anti-Semitic decrees immediately applied in Austria
April 26 August 1
Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich
Adolf Eichmann establishes the Office of Jewish Emigration in Vienna to increase the pace of forced emigration
Munich Conference: Great Britain and France agree to German occupation September 30 of the Sudentenland, previously western Czechoslovakia
October 5
Following request by Swiss authorities, Germans mark all Jewish passports
with a large letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigrating to Switzerland
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass): Anti-Jewish program in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish November 9-10 shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen)
November 12 Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands
November 15 December 12
All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools
One billion mark fine levied against German Jews for the destruction of property during Kristallnacht
March 15 September 1 September 3 October 28 November 23
1939
Germans occupy Czechoslovakia Germany invades Poland Beginning of World War II: Britain and France declare war on Germany First Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star
April 9 May 7 May 10 May 20 November 16
1940
Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway Establishment of Lodz Ghetto Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemberg, and France Concentration camp established at Auschwitz Establishment of Warsaw Ghetto
1941
January 21-26 Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews murdered
April 6
Germany attacks Yugoslavia and Greece, occupation follows
June 22
Germany invades the Soviet Union
September 28-29 October December 8
34,000 Jews massacred by Einsatzgruppen at Babi Yar outside Kiev Establishment of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Chelmno death camp begins operations
January 20 March 17 May June
Summer
Winter
March April 19 Summer Fall October 14 OctoberNovember
March 19 May 15 July 24 October 7 November
January 17 January 27 April 6-10
1942
Wannsee Conference in Berlin: Plan is developed for "Final Solution" Gassing of Jews begins in Belzec Gassing of Jews begins Sobibor Jewish partisan units established in the forests of Byelorussia and the Baltic states Deportation of Jews to killing centers from Belgium, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, and Poland; armed resistance by Jews in ghettos of Kletzk, Kremenets, Lachva, Mir, and Tuchin Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers; Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin
1943 Liquidation of Krakow ghetto Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins Armed resistance by Jews in Bedzin, Bialystok, Czestochowa, Lvov, and Tarnow ghettos Liquidation of large ghettos in Minsk, Vilna, and Riga Uprising in Sobibor
Rescue of the Danish Jewry
1944 Germany occupies Hungary Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews Russians liberate Majdanek Revolt by inmates at Auschwitz; one crematorium blown up Last Jews deported from Terezin to Auschwitz
1945 Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death marches Beginning of death march for inmates of Stutthof Death march of inmates of Buchenwald
April 15 April May 5
Liberation of Bergen Belsen by British Army
Liberation of Nordhausen, Ohrdruf, Gunskirchen, Ebensee and Dachau by American Army
Liberation of Mauthausen and Gusen by American Army