The Holocaust a CHC2D Canadian History presentation

February 27: the Nazis burn the Reichstag building to create a crisis that grants Hitler emergency powers March 22: Dachau is opened near Munich, followed by Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, while for women there was Ravensbrük April 1: Nazis begin boycotting Jewish businesses April 11: Nazis issue a decree identifying what makes a Jew “non-Aryan” — either a parent or grandparent who was Jewish September 29: Jews are prohibited from owning land October 4: Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors

May 17: Jews are banned from national health insurance July 22: Jews are banned from getting legal qualifications

May 21: Jews are banned from military service September 15: The Nuremberg Race Laws are passed, banning Jews from marrying Aryans or to have Aryan servants

March: the Gestapo create a division to run the concentration camp.

January: Jews are banned from teaching Germans, being accountants, dentists, and other professions January: tax reductions and support for families is stopped for Jews

March: after Austria is taken, the concentration camp Mauthausen is built there April 22: Aryans are prohibited from saying they own Jewish businesses June 14: all Jewish businesses must be registered with the government July: the League Of Nations can find no country willing to help the Jews fleeing from Germany July 6: Jews are prohibited from trading goods and other specific areas of business

July 15: Jews over age 15 must carry identification cards to be shown whenever demanded July 25: Jewish doctors are banned from practicing medicine August 11: Synagogues are burned August 17: Jews are ordered to put in identifiers they are Jewish in their passports September 27: Jews are banned from practicing law November 9: Kristallnacht

November 12: Jews are fined for the damages of Kristallnacht November 15: Jewish students are removed from regular German schools December 3: all Jewish businesses must now be owned by Aryans December 14: Hermann Göring takes over “the Jewish Question”

February 21: Jews must hand over all their gold and silver April 30: Jews cannot be tenants except at Jewish buildings May: the St. Louis is turned away from Cuba, the US and Canada July 4: Jews cannot hold any job in the government September 1: Jews are given a curfew September 21: Jews in Poland are to be relocated to ghettos — specific areas near train stations which are administered by Jewish councils following Nazi laws

September 23: Jews are forbidden from owning radios November 23: Jews in Poland must begin wearing yellow stars on their clothing

January 25: Nazis choose a location for Auschwitz in Poland February 12: Jews are deported to Poland April 30: Ghettos begin to be sealed off from the outside world

March 1: Auschwitz is to be greatly expanded, including a second camp at Birkenau that can hold 100,000 prisoners on its own March 7: German Jews are ordered into forced labour Summer: Hitler orders “the Final Solution” September 3: Zyklon-B gas is tested at Auschwitz October 23: Jews are forbidden from emigrating from the Reich December 8: Lodz begins exterminations by putting Jews into vans and running the exhaust into them

January: Zyklon-B used at Auschwitz-Birkenau January 20: a conference is held to organize “the Final Solution” March 30: trainloads of Jews begin to be brought into Auschwitz June 1: Jews in all other Reich countries must also now wear yellow stars July 2: The New York Times reports that one million Jews are now killed by the Nazis in the war July 22: Treblinka is opened September 9: bodies are burned instead of buried December 17: British and U.S. governments condemn the killings

Jewish slaves are now forced to dig up buried bodies and burn them January 18: Warsaw ghetto starts a series of rebellions that will eventually lead the Germans into a policy of killing everyone inside ghettos that got too uncontrollable March 1: Jews in New York hold a mass rally to force the government to help the Jews in Europe May: Dr. Joseph Mengele arrives at Auschwitz and begins live medical experiments on Jews

March 24: President Roosevelt begins calling what Germany is doing “crimes against humanity” Summer: Auschwitz-Birkenau records 9,000 killings per day August 4: Anne Frank is arrested in Amsterdam October 28: last train of Jews arrives at Auschwitz November 25: crematories at Auschwitz are ordered destroyed

As Allies approach, Jews are forcibly marched back to German areas and those who cannot march are killed January 27: Soviets liberate Auschwitz; 1.5 million Jews died there along with 500,000 others April 4: Eisenhower gets his first view of the camps April 29: U.S. army liberates Dachau November 20: Nuremberg Trials begin

Additional Aftermath When the camps were liberated, Germans from the nearby village were brought to the camps. They claimed they had no idea what was happening.When the camps were liberated, Germans from the nearby village were brought to the camps. They claimed they had no idea what was happening. When the Jews emerged from the camps, their homes and businesses now belonged to others — and they had no way of demanding them back.When the Jews emerged from the camps, their homes and businesses now belonged to others — and they had no way of demanding them back. Many go to Palestine to follow the dream of a Jewish homeland.Many go to Palestine to follow the dream of a Jewish homeland. On 14 May 1948, the State of Israel begins to be recognized internationally, with Tel Aviv as its capital.On 14 May 1948, the State of Israel begins to be recognized internationally, with Tel Aviv as its capital.

1960s1960s May 11, 1960: Auschwitz kommondant Eichmann is captured by the Israelis in Argentina April 11, August 14, 1961: Eichmann is put on trial in Jerusalem and the trial is broadcast internationally May 31, 1962: Eichmann is hung for his crimes