Memories of the Holocaust

By: Sheridan Estep

TimelineJanuary 30th, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed

Chancellor of Germany

February 22, 1933 - 40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in

as auxiliary police.

March 24, 1933 - German Parliament passes Enabling Act

giving Hitler dictatorial powers.

May 10, 1933 – Burning of books in

Berlin and throughout Germany.

September 29, 1933 - Nazis prohibit Jews from owning

land

May 17, 1934 - Jews not allowed

national health

insurance.

November 24, 1933 - Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the

homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to

concentration camps.

May 21, 1935 - Nazis ban Jews from serving

in the military.

March 12/13, 1938 - Nazi

troops enter Austria, which

has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in

Vienna.

June 30, 1934 - The Night of Long Knives.

April 26, 1938 - Nazis order

Jews to register wealth and property.

July 25, 1938 - Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing

medicine.

July 23, 1938 - Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards from the

police, to be shown on demand to any police

officer.

August 11, 1938 - Nazis destroy the

synagogue in Nuremberg.

November 23, 1939 - Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over

age 10.

February 12, 1940 - First deportation of German

Jews into occupied Poland

April 30, 1939 - Jews lose rights as

tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses

February 21, 1939 - Nazis force Jews to hand over all

gold and silver items.

September 17, 1939 - Soviet troops invade

eastern Poland.

October 12, 1939 - Evacuation of Jews

from Vienna.

June 22, 1940 - France signs an armistice with

Hitler.

May 14, 1941 - 3,600 Jews arrested

in Paris.

May 14, 1941 - 3,600 Jews

arrested in Paris.

September27/28 - 23,000 Jews killed at Kamenets-Podolsk, in the Ukraine.

In January - Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at

Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in

mass graves in a nearby meadow.

March 30, 1942 - First trainloads of Jews from Paris

arrive at Auschwitz.

September 18, 1942 -

Reduction of food rations for Jews in Germany.

March 31, 1943 - Newly

built gas chamber/cre

matory II opens at

Auschwitz.

April 20, 1942 - German Jews

are banned from using

public transportation.

January 18, 1945 - Nazis

evacuate 66,000 from

Auschwitz

Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring greet the participants in the parade as they pass beneath the window of Hitler's new office.

I chose this picture to represent what I learned about the Holocaust because Hitler was the person who organized the Holocaust and the termination of Jews. This photo shows Hitler after he was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. To me, this marks the beginning of the very tragic event known as the Holocaust.

At Buchenwald concentration camp, newly arriving prisoners are registered upon arrival.

I chose this photograph to represent what I learned about the Holocaust because this photo shows a new prisoner arriving at a concentration camp and being registered. Jews did not know what to expect when going to these camps, which makes the whole event that more tragic.

The burning of books that were not German or consisted of “unGerman” ideas in Berlin and cities throughout Germany.

I chose this picture to represent what I learned about the Holocaust because this is a representation of how cruel Nazis really were. They destroyed people’s possessions because of the content of the books and did not feel bad about it.

German policemen tormenting a Jew.

I chose this picture to represent what I learned about the Holocaust because this shows that everyone, even policemen, tormented Jews because of who they were and thought it was humorous.

A woman is sitting on a bench marked only for Jews.

Anti-Semitism is the prejudice against or hatred towards Jews. I chose this picture to represent what I learned about the Holocaust in order to show Anti-Semitism.

“History has shown that wherever anti-Semitism has gone unchecked, the persecution of others has been present or not far behind. Defeating anti-Semitism must be a cause of great importance not only for Jews, but for all people who value humanity and justice….” —U.S. Department of State, 2008

Prisoners during roll call at camp Buchenwald.

I chose this photo to represent what I learned about the Holocaust because the faces on the prisoners show how miserable they were; no one had a happy expression on their face.

Credibility

• http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/red/blue_pics/2008/09/03/Holocaust276.jpg

• http://c.tadst.com/gfx/600x400/un-holocaust-victims.jpg?1

• http://www.ushmm.org/photos/46/46579.jpg

• http://questgarden.com/101/66/5/100419080602/images/holocaust_tattoos_children.jpg

• http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/dmeier/Holocaust/Auschwitz1.jpg

• http://sun.menloschool.org/~nfortman/8th/DCmemorials/zackwb.holocaust/kidingate.gif

• http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/03/05/books/dixl1.450.jpg

• http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/buchenwald/