JHT Holocaust Test

January 30, 1933

Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany.

March 22, 1933

First concentration camp opens.

April 1, 1933

Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.

May 10, 1933

Public burnings of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state.

August 2, 1934

Hitler proclaims himself Fuhrer (combination of president and chancellor).

September 15, 1935 (Identification)

Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted.
1. Jews no longer considered German citizens
2. Jews could not marry Aryans
3. Jews could not fly the German flag

November 15, 1935 (Identification)

Germany defines a "Jew".
- Anyone with three Jewish grandparents
- Someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew

July 15, 1936

Buchenwald concentration camp opens.

July 6th, 1938 (Identification)

Evian conference held in Evian, France. Decided what to do with Jewish refugees. Jewish problem not solved.

November 9-10, 1938

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass):
- Anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland.

September 1, 1939

Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland.

October 28, 1939

First Polish Ghetto established in Piotrkow.

November 23, 1939

Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear armband saying their Jewish.

May 20, 1940

Auschwitz (concentration camp) opens.

November 16, 1940

The Warsaw Ghetto is sealed.

October 1941

Auschwitz II (Birkenau) is established for the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and others.

January 20, 1942 (Identification)

Wannsee Conference in Berlin. "The Final Solution" was proposed/enacted. All Jews in Europe will be killed in Europe.

May 1943

Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. The people of the Ghetto were rounded up to be taken to death camps.

November 8, 1943 (Identification)

The beginning of death marches. The point of death marches were to kill the Jews gradually.

January 17, 1945

Evacuation of Auschwitz.

April 30, 1945

Hitler commits suicide.

May 8, 1945

Known as Victory in Europe day. Germany surrenders and the Third Reich ends.

September 2, 1945

Japan surrenders, World War II ends.

Nuremberg Laws

Anti-Jew laws

What does Germany define as a Jew?

Three Jewish grandparents

Evian conference

Decided what to do with Jewish refugees

Wannsee conference

Murder of all Jews

Being of death march and what is it

Nov 8 1944: 40,000 jews marched from budapest to Austria