1. Hitler named Chancellor of Germany – January 30, 1933

2. Germany passes the Nuremberg Laws – September 15, 1935

3. Kristallnacht – November 9-10, 1938

4. Germany invades Poland – September 1, 1939

5. Germans establish Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland - 1940

6. Einsatzgruppen actions result in murder of 1.5 million Jews – beginning with the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941

7. Heydrich receives authorization via Herman Goering to implement a Final Solution to the Jewish Problem – July 31, 1941

8. Wannsee Conference convened by Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann to alert other agencies to the plans for the “Final Solution” – January 20, 1942

9. Death camps operational and deportations occurring regularly – beginning Spring 1942 Krematoria II at Auschwitz-Birkenau Jews being deported to Treblinka

10. A platform and three track rail connection, which comes to be known as “the ramp,” is built at Auschwitz-Birkenau to allow trains to deliver Jews directly into the camp – May 1944

11. Deportation of Hungarian Jews – Mid-May – July 1944

12. Death marches to German concentration camps – winter 1944-1945

13. Liberation of German concentration camps – Spring 1945

14. General Eisenhower moves to establish Jewish Displaced Persons Camps following recommendation in Harrison Report – August 3, 1945 Generals Eisenhower and Patton tour the DP camp at Feldafing after Eisenhower received a strongly worded cable from President Truman directing him to institute reforms to improve the living conditions of displaced Jews in the American zone of occupation.

15. President Truman issues an executive order, the "Truman Directive," requiring that existing immigration quotas be designated for displaced persons. Many Jewish Holocaust survivors emigrate under this provision. – December 22, 1945

16. Kielce Pogrom – Polish citizens murder 42 Jews – July 4, 1946

17. Israel established as an independent Jewish state – May 14, 1948

18. Final displaced persons camp, Foehrenwald, closes - 1957