Holocaust 10 istorical EventsH

Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

(http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-is-named-chancellor-of-germany) A nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.

German Labor

Jan 24, 1934

http://www.pbs.org/
Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.

Yes

Aug 19, 1934

http://www.historyplace.com/Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.

Radio

Sep 23, 1939

(http://www.auschwitz.dk)
German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets.

Hungarian Army rounds up 18,000 Jews

Aug 26, 1941

The Hungarian Army rounds up 18,000 Jews at Kamenets-Podolsk.(http://degob.org)

Mass killing

Jan 1, 1942

(http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/auschwitzgaschambers.html) Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.

German Army attack on Stalingrad

Aug 23, 1942

http://www.britannica.comBeginning of German Army attack on Stalingrad in Russia.

Harvest Festival

Nov 3, 1943

www.ushmm.orgNazis carry out Operation Harvest Festival in occupied Poland, killing 42,000 Jews.

First transports of Jews from Athens to Auschwitz

Apr 14, 1944

(http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org)
First transports of Jews from Athens to Auschwitz, totaling 5,200 persons.

Russian troops liberate Auschwitz.

Jan 27, 1945

www.washingtonpost.comRussian troops liberate Auschwitz.By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.