Timeline of the Holocaust

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Timeline of the Holocaust
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1933 Nazi Party Takes Control

• Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor (PM)
• Civil liberties temporarily suspended
• Dachau created200 Communists imprisoned
• Unacceptable books burned

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1935 Persecutions intensify

• Nuremberg laws deprive German Jews of
  citizenship, and the right marry or work
• Star of David armbands, J on passport
• Persecution of others considered racially
  inferior including Gypsies, Jehovahs Witnesses
  and homosexuals

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1936 Olympics

• Olympic games held in Germanyonly Aryans compete
  promoting propaganda
• Signs barring Jews from public places are removed

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1938 Kristallnacht

• 200 synagogues destroyed, 7500 Jewish stores
  looted, 30,000 sent to concentration camps
• Officially was a spontaneous reaction to a Jewish
  boys shooting of a German embassy official
• Really planned weeks in advance SS told it was
  an action not to be stopped
• Jews then forced to give up businesses and were
  expelled from schools

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1939 WWII Begins

• Germany invades Poland
• Hitler orders the systematic murder of physically
  and mentally disabled
• Polish Jews ordered to wear armbands, register,
  relocate

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1940 Deportations

• German Jews deported to Poland
• Jews forced into ghettos
• Germany conquers Netherlands, Denmark, Norway,
  Belgium, Luxembourg, France

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1941 Increased Killing

• 33,771 Ukrainian Jews killed by mobile unit in 2
  days
• Death camp at Chelmno opens
• Hungary deports 17,000 Jews--thousands used as
  slave laborers, Nazis massacre rest

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1942 Wannsee Conference

• Final Solution discussed
• 5 more death camps open including
  Auschwitz-Birkenau
• 20-25 of Jews who would die in Holocaust are
  already dead
• Eastern European ghettos emptied

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1943 Warsaw Uprising

• Jews strike back takes Nazis month to put down
  the uprising
• 80 of Jews who would die have perished

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1945-1946 End of WWII

• Nazis evacuate death camps
• American forces liberate survivors
• 1/3 of all Jews are murdered survivors are
  Displaced Persons (DPs), homeless
• Nuremberg trials

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Legacy

• Dear Teacher
• I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes
  saw what no man should witness.
• Gas chambers built by LEARNED engineers
• Children poisoned by EDUCATED physicians
• Infants killed by TRAINED nurses
• Women and babies shot and burned by HIGH SCHOOL
  and COLLEGE graduates
• My request is Help your students become human.
• Reading, writing and arithmetic are important
  only if they serve to make our children more
  humane