Social Justice 12

Holocaust major events

Anti-Jewish Boycott (1933)

Book burning (1933)

Law limits Jews in Public Schools (1933)

Nuremberg Race Laws (1935)

Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens (1937)

All Jews with “non-Jewish” first names required to adopt an additional name: “Israel” for men and “Sara” for women (1938)

German Jews’ Passports declared invalid (1938)

Exclusion of Jews from German Economic Life (All Jewish businesses close) (1938)

Kristallnacht (1938)

Adolf Hitler Issues first comment on the “Jewish Question” (1919)

Law excludes Jews and other political opponents from civil service positions (1933)

Josef Goebbels and Julius Streicher open the antisemitic exhibition Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) at the library of the German Museum in Munich, Germany. (1937)

Hitler declares that the outbreak of war would mean the end of European Jewry. (1939)

SS authorities establish the largest concentration camp complex of the Nazi regime, Auschwitz (1940)

Warsaw Ghetto Sealed with 10 foot, barbed wire topped fence (1940)

Jews required to wear a yellow star of David (1941)

An SS officer submits his report on the mass killing of Jewish civilians in the northwestern region of the Soviet Union (1941)

German authorities begin deporting Jews from central Europe to ghettos in occupied eastern territory (1941)

Killing Operations begin at Chalmo. Chelmo was first stationary facility where poison gas was used for mass murder (1941)

German authorities begin the deportation of Jews and Roma (Gypsies) from the Lodz ghetto to Chelmno for mass execution (1942)

Reinhard Heydrich convenes the Wannsee Conference and presents plans to coordinate a European-wide “Final Solution of the Jewish Question. (1942)

The Inspectorate of Concentration Camps opens a second camp at Auschwitz, called Auschwitz-Birkenau or Auschwitz II (1942)

SS Special Detachment Treblinka begins gassing operations at the Treblinka killing center. (1942)

Death March from Auschwitz: As Soviet troops approach, SS units begin the final evacuation of prisoners from the Auschwitz camp complex (1945)