Holocaust

1932

1934

1936

1938

1940

1942

1944

1946

1948

Periods of the Holocaust

Persecution
Concentration/Resettlement
Extermination
Events of the Holocaust

Dachau Established (First Concentration Camp)

SA attacks Jews in Germany
Organized Boycott of Jewish Businesses
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
Nuremberg Laws Passed
Nuremberg Law extended to Roma, Sinti, and Blacks.
Reichskristallnacht
Aktion T4
AB Aktion

Lodz Ghetto Created

Madagascar Plan

Commissar Order
Einsaztgruppen active in the Soviet Union

Jews of Germany forced to wear the Yellow Star

Babi Yar Massacre
Operation Reinhard
Killing Vans Used at Chelmno

1950

1952

1954

Conference
WannseeLiquidation
of the Warsaw Ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Crematoria I-IV in Operation at Auschwitz-Birkenau II

Sobibor Uprising
Auschwitz Sonderkommando Uprising
Buchenwald Liberated by US Troops
Legend

Events of Extermination of the Jews

Events of the Persecution of the Jews
Events of Persecutions of others
Events of Jewish Resistance
Events of Concentration/Resettlement

Periods of the Holocaust

Persecution
1933 - 1939

Concentration/Resettlement
October 8, 1939 - October 13, 1941

Extermination
June 1941 - 1945

Events of the Holocaust

Dachau Established (First Concentration Camp)
March 1933
Dachau was established as the model camp for political prisoners and was often used as the basis for other camps.

SA attacks Jews in Germany

March 1933

Organized Boycott of Jewish Businesses

April 1, 1933

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

April 7, 1933
This law excluded Jews from work in civil service and was used as a basis for their exclusion from other occupations.

Nuremberg Laws Passed

September 15, 1935
These sets of laws excluded Jews from marriages with non-Jewish Germans and defined Jewish.

Nuremberg Law extended to Roma, Sinti, and Blacks.

November 14, 1935

Reichskristallnacht
November 9, 1938 - November 10, 1938
Night of the Broken Glass

Aktion T4
September 1, 1939 - August 1941

AB Aktion
October 1939 - May 1940
Murder of leadership and Intelligensia in Poland after the German invasion.

Lodz Ghetto Created

October 8, 1939
First major ghetto.

Madagascar Plan
June 3, 1940 - August 1940

Commissar Order
June 6, 1941

Einsaztgruppen active in the Soviet Union

June 22, 1941 - June 22, 1942

Jews of Germany forced to wear the Yellow Star

September 19, 1941

Babi Yar Massacre

September 29, 1941 - September 30, 1941
33,771 Jews killed in open air shootings.

Operation Reinhard
October 13, 1941 - November 1943

Killing Vans Used at Chelmno

December 8, 1941 - March 1943

Wannsee Conference
January 20, 1942

Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto

July 22, 1942 - May 16, 1943

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943

Crematoria I-IV in Operation at Auschwitz-Birkenau II

June 1943 - January 27, 1945

Sobibor Uprising
October 14, 1943

Auschwitz Sonderkommando Uprising

October 7, 1944

Buchenwald Liberated by US Troops

April 11, 1945