1. The Holocaust

2. Chronology of the Holocaust

3. 1933 n January 30- Hitler appointed Chancellor n March 22- Dachau concentration camp opens n April 1- Boycott of Jewish businesses n April 7- “Laws for Reestablishment of the Civil Service” n April 26- Gestapo established n May 10- public burning of unapproved books

4. 1934 n August 2- Hitler proclaims himself Führer

5. 1935 n September 15- Nuremburg Laws –Jews no longer German citizens –Marriages between Jews and “Aryans” prohibited –Jews no longer allowed to fly the German flag n November 15- Germany defines a “Jew”

6. 1936 n March 3- Jews barred from serving in the armed forces

7. 1938 n March 13- Anschluss: all anti-semitic decrees applied to Austria n April 26- mandatory registration of all property held by Jews n November 9-10- Kristallnacht n November 12- decree forcing all Jews to transfer businesses to Aryans n November 15- all Jewish students expelled from German schools

8. Humiliation of Jewish Students

9. 1939 n January 30- Hitler speech to Reichstag: war will mean “Vernichtung” n September 1- Germany invades Poland n Sept. 1939 - Germany invades Poland; mass shootings by Einsatzgruppen units of Polish Jews begin n October 28- First Polish ghettoes established

10. 1940 n May 20- Concentration camp established at Auschwitz n November 16- Warsaw Ghetto sealed

11. 1941 n March- Adolf Eichmann appointed head of Department for Jewish Affairs n July 21- Majdanek opens n July 31- Reinhard Heydrich appointed to implement the “Final Solution” n October- establishment of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) extermination camp n December 8- Chelmno extermination camp begins operation

12. Map of the camp System

13. 1942 n January 20- Wannsee Conference n March 17- Belzec extermination camp n May- Sobibor extermination camp n July 22- Treblinka extermination camp

14. 1943 n March- Liquidation of Krakow Ghetto n April 19- Warsaw Ghetto uprising begins n June- Himmler orders liquidation of all ghettoes in Poland and USSR

15. 1944 n July 24- Russians liberate Majdanek n October 7- revolt by Auschwitz inmates Zyklon B canisters found at Majdanek

16. 1945 n May 7-Germany surrenders

17. The Nuremburg Trial n Dec 9, 1946 - 23 former SS doctors and scientists go on trial at Nuremberg. Sixteen found guilty, with 7 hanged. n March 11, 1946 - Former Auschwitz Kommandant Höss found guilty and hanged at Auschwitz, April 16, 1947 n Sept 15, 1947 - Twenty one former SS leaders go on trial in Nuremberg. 14 sentenced to death, with 4 executed.

18. The Nuremburg Trial (cont.)

19. n May 11, 1960 - Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by Israeli secret service. n April 11 - August 14 - Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem for crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Found guilty and hanged on May 31, 1962. Eichmann Trial

20. People of the Holocaust n Perpetrators Adolf EichmannReinhard Heydrich Heinrich Himmler

21. People of the Holocaust n Rescuers Dietrich Bonhoeffer Raoul Wallenberg Oskar Schindler

22. Prepared by Mark Klopfenstein Blue Valley High School Spring 2001