Timeline of the Holocaust: 1937 - 1939
July 2 - Many Jewish students expelled from German schools and universities.
July 19 - Buchenwald concentration camp opened.
November 16 - Jews contained in Germany by act making Jewish passports invalid for international travel.
March 12 - German annexation of Austria. German anti-Jewish laws take effect in the subjugated country.
October 28 - 15,000 Jews herded into Poland at gunpoint.
November 9 - Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," begins. These government-sanctioned riots resulted in incredible destruction of Jewish property in Germany.
November 15 - All Jewish students expelled from German education.
August 23 - Russia and Germany sign a non-aggression pact.
September 1 - Hitler declares war on Poland.
September 3 - World War II begins.
October 12 - Trains begin shipping Austrian Jews to camps in Poland.
November 23 - Law mandates that Polish Jews wear a yellow star as identification.
November 28 - The first ghetto is set up in Protrkow, Poland.