Some Dates of Interest in Holocaust History
1933 March 23 April 1 May 10
Dachau, first concentration camp is established Boycott of Jewish owned businesses Books written by Jews and those considered to be opponents of Nazi Regime, are burned in Berlin 1935
September 15
Nuremberg Laws restricting basic rights of German Jews and denying German citizenship to Jews become effective 1936
August 1
Olympic Games open in Berlin. Jews and Roma are barred from participating. Nazis see it as opportunity to showcase racial superiority. African-American sprinter Jesse Owens wins medals 1937
July 16
Buchenwald concentration camp is established 1938
July 5
Evian Conference on Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany opens at initiative of the American government. Only the Dominican Republic agrees to accept refugees.
November 9
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass takes place. Thirty thousand Jewish men are sent to Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen 1939
September 1
Nazi Germany invades Poland starting World War II
1940 May
Auschwitz 1 is established Lodz Ghetto is established
October 16
Warsaw Ghetto is established and closed to the outside November 15 with approximately 500,000 inhabitants 1941
June 22
Germany invades Soviet Union and mass killings of Soviet Jews begin
October 8
Auschwitz-Birkenau/Auschwitz 2, is established
December 7
Attack of Pearl Harbor. The US declares war on Japan 1942
January 20
Wannsee Conference develops plans to implement “Final Solution.�
March 1
Trains begin to arrive in Auschwitz
June 1
Treblinka Death Camp is established
July-September About 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto deported to Treblinka October 4
Jews in concentration camps in Germany are sent to Auschwitz 1943
March 15
Deportation of Jews from Greece to Auschwitz begins
April 19
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Resistance ends April 28
June 11
Jews in Polish ghettos are sent to death camps
June 21
Jews in Russian ghettos are sent to death camps
August 2
Treblinka Death Camp Uprising
October 2
Rescue of Jews from Denmark. Seven Thousand Jews Evacuated to Sweden
October 14
Sobibor Death Camp Uprising
1944 April 29
Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz Birkenau begins
June 6
D-Day – Allied invasion of Nazi held Europe
July 24
Liberation of Majdanek death camp by Russian army
October 7
Auschwitz prisoners revolt 1945
January 27
Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet army
April 11
Liberation of Buchenwald by American army
April 15
Liberation of Bergen Belsen by British army
April 30
Liberation of Dachau by American army
May 5
Liberation of Mauthausen by American army
Other dates: March 1944 Hannah Szenes parachutes into Yugoslavia in a rescue mission to save Hungarian Jews. Crosses border into Hungary. Captured and executed November 7. 23 yrs-old
June 1944 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat at embassy in Budapest starts rescue operation of Jews from Hungary. Some consider him to have saved 100,000 September 1944-1946 The Jewish Brigade, a military unit of the British army of Jewish volunteers from Palestine. Became a symbol of hope and pride for Jewish refugees in DP Camps. January 27 United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau 27th of Nissan - this year April 7 at sundown Yom HaShoah commemorated in Israel. The date falls in symbolic proximity to the day of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The full name is, Day of Holocaust and Heroism (Yom HaShoah ve HaGvurah)