Important Dates and History about the Holocaust
| Dates | Historic Events |
| Apr. 20, 1889 | Adolf Hitler was born in town called Braunqu. |
| 1929 | Anne Frank was born in a German town called Frankfurt. |
| Jan. 30, 1933 | Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. |
| Feb. 28, 1933 | German government takes away freedom of speech. |
| Mar. 20, 1933 | First concentration camp opens at Dachau, Germany. |
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Apr. 1, 1933 |
Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses. |
| Apr. 7, 1933 | Law excludes "non-Aryans" from government employment. |
| May 10, 1933 | Nazis burned 25,000 books. |
| Oct. 1934 | First major arrest of homosexuals occurs throughout Germany. |
| Apr. 1935 | Jehovah's Witnesses are banned from all civil service jobs. |
| Jul. 12, 1936 | First German arrested and brought to Dachau, Germany concentration camp. |
| Nov. 9, 1938 | Kristallnacht (The Night Of Broken Glass) |
| Nov. 15,1938 | All Jewish children are expelled from public schools and other schools are created just for the Jewish children. |
| Dec. 2-3,1938 | All Gypsies in the Reich are required to register with the police. |
| Sep. 1, 1939 | Germany invaded Poland, World War II began. |
| Oct. 1939 | Hitler expands his power over the doctors to kill institutionalized mentally and physically disabled people in the "euthanasia" programs. |
| Spring 1940 | Germany attacks and defeats Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and France. |
| Oct. 1940 | Warsaw ghetto is created. |
| Mar. 22, 1941 | Gypsy and African children expelled from public schools in the Reich. |
| Mar. 24,1941 | Germany attacks North Africa. |
| Jun. 22,1941 | The Germans attack the Soviet Union and the Einesatzgruppen mobile killing squads start the mass murders of innocent people. |
| Sep. 28-29, 1941 | Almost 34,000 Jewish people are killed by mobile killing squads in Babi Yar, near Keiv. |
| Dec. 11, 1941 | Germany attacks the United States and declare war. |
| 1942 | Mass murders of Jews begin in gas chambers. |
| Mar. 19, 1944 | Germany occupies Hungary. |
| Mar. 28, 1944 | Jewish residence were ordered to wear a yellow star and paint one on their homes. |
| Apr. 5, 1944 | Jews are forbidden to associate to their Gentile neighbors. |
| Apr. 18, 1944 | The Jews of Somorja are deported to a Ghetto in Nagymagyar. |
| Jun. 6, 1944 | Allied powers attack western Europe. |
| Jun. 7,1944 | Hannah Senesh was captured and executed for being a traitor. |
| Jul. 20, 1944 | German officers fail to assassinate Hitler. |
| Aug. 2, 1944 | Large group of Gypsies gassed, almost 3,000 murdered. |
| Apr. 30, 1945 | Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin. |
| May 7, 1945 | Germany surrenders, World War II ends in Europe. |
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