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.

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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