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Significant Years

Significant Years. Holocaust 1941-1945. 1941. April 6-Germany Invades Yugoslavia and Greece June 22-Germany Invades the Soviet Union. 1941. July 6-Mobile killing units shoot almost 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19 th -century fortifications surrounding Kovno .

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Significant Years

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  1. Significant Years Holocaust 1941-1945

  2. 1941 April 6-Germany Invades Yugoslavia and Greece June 22-Germany Invades the Soviet Union

  3. 1941 July 6-Mobile killing units shoot almost 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno. August 3-Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “euthanasia” killing program in a public sermon.

  4. 1941 • September 28 and 29-Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at BabiYar, outside of Kiev. November 7-Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in a nearby city.

  5. 1941 November 30-Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest. December 11-Nazi Germany declares war on the United States.

  6. 1942 January 16-Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center. March 27-Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east. (Mainly Auschwitz)

  7. 1942 • June 28-Germany launches a new offensive towards the city of Stalingrad. • July 15-Germans begin mass deportations of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to the east. (Mainly Auschwitz) • July 22-Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center.

  8. 1942 September 12-Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Terblinka. November 23-Soviet troops counterattack at Stalingrad trapping the German Sixth Army in the city.

  9. 1943 April 19-Warsaw ghetto uprising begins. July 5-Battle of Kursk. October 1-Rescue of Jews in Denmark. November 6-Soviet troops liberate Kiev.

  10. 1944 March 19-German forces occupy Hungary June 6-D-Day Allied forces invade Normandy, France. June 22-The soviets launch an offensive in eastern Belorussia. July 25-Anglo-American forces break out of Normandy.

  11. 1944 August 1 Warsaw Polish uprising begins. August 15-Allied forces land in souther France. August 25-Liberation of Paris December 16-Babttle of the Bulge

  12. 1945 • January 18-Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland. • January 25-Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Shutthof camp system in northern Poland. • January 27-Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex.

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