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Holocaust Timeline

Jews Flee

Holocaust's Ending- mid to late 1940's

Treaty of Versailles- 1919

Anti-Jewish Sentiment Rises- Early to mid 1930's

In December of 1938, the first Kindertransport arrives in Great Britain to allow Jewish parents a way for their children to escape. 9 to 10 thousand Jewish children were able to escape through this method. However, almost all of the children would never see their parents again, and many ended up in orphanages. On May 13, 1939, the St. Louis set sail for Jamaica, filled with Jewish refugees.

On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered to the Allies. Soon after, many of the concentration camps were shut down, and all the survivors were freed. However, for the majority of people, it was too late. During the Holocaust, 6 million Jews were slaughtered. Today, the U.S Holocaust Museum stands as a reminder to the people who tragically lost their lives, and as a staggering lesson that events like these should never happen again.

The Treaty of Versailles was what technically ended World War 1. However, almost none of the disputes that started the war were solved, so tension remained in Europe. Much of this tension was in Germany. According to the treaty, Germany had to give up lots of its territory in Europe. Along with this, Germany had to accept full responsibility of all of World War 1, and as such had to make massive payments.

On March 22, 1933, the first concentration camp, Dachau, was established. On April 1, 1933, the Nazi party stages an anti-Jewish economic boycott. The boycott was presented as revenge for all the bad press Germany had been receiving internationally. On the seventh of the same month, the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was passed, which prohibited Jews and opponents of the Nazis from holding jobs in civil services. On April 25, the Law against Overcrowding in Schools was issued, which limited the number of Jews able to attend public school. The curriculum at schools was changed to focus on values that Hitler approved of. Starting on May 10, 1933, books that were considered "un-German" were publicly burned. Books that were written by Jews or books that talked about issues like women's rights, pacifism, better working conditions for lower paying jobs, and more respect and rights for the disabled were all labeled as "un-German".

1910

1935

1940

1930

1945

Fighting Back- mid 1940's

Hitler Gains Momentum- early 1930's

Concentration Camps and Ghettos Rise- 1940's and late 30's

On May 20, 1940, Auschwitz Concentration camp was established. It was the largest of all the concentration camps, and served as both an inhumane work camp and a death camp. On November 15 of the same year, the ghetto at Warsaw, Poland was sealed, trapping 30 percent of the city's population into 2.4 percent of the city's total area

On October 7, 1944, the prisoners assigned to the crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau rebel after learning that they are about to be killed. People at the camp had been smuggling gunpowder for months before this incident. Though the Germans eventually crushed the revolt, it was the beginning of the end of the horrible events that had been transpiring.

As a result of the Treaty of Versailles, many Germans were angry with the state of the government and the economy, and were desperate for a change in leadership. In enters Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' party, or Nazi party. He promised to dissolve the old parliamentary system, and to bring salvation and prosperity to the German people. In 1932, the Nazi party had 230 seats in parliament. On January 30th, 1933, Hitler and his party assume control of the German state.

A Side note

This timeline's dates are not properly placed on the timeline not because of

carelessness, but because it damaged the aesthetic, and the timeline does not go up an even interval, but this is all intentional.

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