TimelineEvents leading to the

Holocaust

1933 January: The Nazi Party takes control of

Germany while Hitler becomes chancellor

February: Civil liberties for all citizens were “temporarily restricted”

March: A concentration camp was established in Dachau

May: All Nazi Party beliefs are publicity burned, trade unions also close.

1935 September: Nuremburg laws are passed

• Nuremburg laws- definition of a Jewish person, made sure Jews did not escape like many did. All citizenship was taken away from Jews.

• Other types of people were defined “inferior” and were treated as the Jews were• Romanies (Gypsies),Jehovah’s Whitnesses &

Homosexuals

• Many were sent to concentration camps

1938 July: The Evian Conference occurred

The Evian Conference- 32 countries gathered together to discuss how many Jews were fleeing Germany because of Hitler

November: Kristallnacht “The Night of Broken Glass”

Kristallnacht- Jews were arrested, killed, and shops and businesses were robbed

December: Nazis took over all Jewish owned businesses

1939 September: World War II begins, Germany

invades Poland

October: Euthanasia program was ordered by Hitler, which lead to the systematic murder of the disabled in Germany and Austria

1940 February: German Jews were being

deported to Poland

December: First mass murder of Jews by the Nazis in Treblinka

1941 June: Mobile killing units were the start the

systematic slaughter of Jews

September: 33,771 Ukrainian Jews were killed at Babi Yar ( largest massacre of the Holocaust)

December: A death camp at Chelmno opens

1942 January: Wannsee Conference took place

Wannsee Conference- Nazis organized and planned the “Final Solution”

Final Solution- plan to kill all European Jews Gas chambers were added to six death camps

to begin the killing of Jews in Poland

*Thousands of Jews were killed each day

1945 May: U.S. and Allied forces overtake the

Nazis, the remaining Jews in the concentration camps were released

Works Cited

http://isurvived.org/cronology.html