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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. Created by: Britney Derhak. The Holocaust was a devastating tragedy that ended with thousands of innocent Jews murdered. This is a timeline of only some of the events that occurred between 1939 and 1945. AUGUST 3, 1934.

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust Created by: Britney Derhak

  2. The Holocaust was a devastating tragedy that ended with thousands of innocent Jews murdered. This is a timeline of only some of the events that occurred between 1939 and 1945

  3. AUGUST 3, 1934 Hitler declares himself president and chancellor of the Third Reich after the death of Paul Von Hindenburg.

  4. JULY 16, 1937 Buchenwald concentration camp opened.

  5. SEPTEMBER 21, 1939 Ghettos to be established in occupied Poland each under a "Judenrat" or Jewish Council, by order of Heydrich.

  6. On February 12, 1940:the first German Jews were deportation into occupied Poland.

  7. SEPTEMBER 28-29, 1941 Nearly 34,000 Jews are murdered by "Einsatzgruppen", mobile killing squads, at Babi Yar near Kiev (Ukraine).

  8. October 22, 1941 The Odessa Action: more than 30,000 Jews from Odessa murdered. Many Jews were gathered into the city square, sprayed with gasoline and burned alive.

  9. DECEMBER 7, 1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

  10. January 20, 1942 The Wannsee Conference in Berlin. Heydrich outlined The Final Solution: the plan to murder Europe's Jews, all 11 million of them. Reinhard Heydrich

  11. January, 1942: Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Gas chamber in Auschwitz

  12. Jews in France and Holland were required to wear identifying stars • Jews in Central Poland were made to wear distinctive identifying armband

  13. OCTOBER 4, 1942 All Jews still in concentration camps in Germany are sent to death camp at Auschwitz. March 22, 1943: First of four new crematoriums at Auschwitz ready for use.

  14. January 18, 1945:The Nazis evacuated Auschwitz. Death Marches for the surviving Jews began.

  15. APRIL 30, 1945 • Hitler commits suicide. • This lead to the end of the Nazi’s power and they let the Jewish prisoners go • Soon after World War II was over

  16. References • http://library.advanced.org/12663/timeline/ • http://www.auschwitz.dk/Timeline/nr7.htm

  17. Picture referencesin order of appearance • http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/adolf_hitler.htm • http://andrejkoymasky.com/mem/holocaust/ho04.html • http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/eng_captions/51-5.html • http://www.zwoje-scrolls.com/shoah/towns.html • http://isurvived.org/TOC-I.html • http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/staticpages/290.html • http://www.espionageinfo.com/Pa-Po/Pearl-Harbor-Japanese-Attack-on.html • http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww2timeline/Final_Solution.html

  18. Picture references cont. • http://www.7is7.com/otto/travel/photos/20031019/auschwitz_auschwitz1gaschamber.html • http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059 • http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/badges.html • http://www.candlesholocaustmuseum.org/index.php?sid=41&id=6 • http://www.oskarschindler.com/Albums5/album.htm • http://www.shoah.freeservers.com/photo.html

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