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January 10 | All Jews are registered (Netherlands) |
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February 5 | The Law for the Protection of the State - Jews get double punishment for crimes (Romania) |
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March 3 | Krakow ghetto established |
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March 1 | Himmler orders a camp at Birkenau (Auschwitz II) built |
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April 6 | Germany invades Yugoslavia (surrenders April 18) and Greece |
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April 13 | Japan and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact |
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April 24 | Lublin ghetto sealed |
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June 22 | Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) |
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June 29 | "Black Sunday" - in the courtyard of the Iasi police headquarters, several thousand Jews are shot |
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June 29-July 2 | In Dvinsk, all Jewish males from 16 to 60 years old are arrested |
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July 8 | Jews in Baltic countries must wear Star of David |
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July 12 | Anglo-Soviet Mutual Assistance Pact |
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July 20 | Minsk ghetto established |
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July 24 | Kishinev ghetto established |
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July 25-27 | The "Petliura Days" - pogrom in Lvov |
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August 1 | Bialystok ghetto established |
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August 14 | Atlantic Charter signed |
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September 19 | Jews who are six years old or older must wear a yellow Star of David (Germany) |
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September 1 | Euthanasia Program officially ended |
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September 3 | First gassing tests at Auschwitz |
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September 3-6 | Two ghettos in Vilna established |
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September 19 | All Jews in the Reich must wear the yellow Star of David in public |
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September 29-30 | Babi Yar |
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October 8 | Vitebsk ghetto liquidated |
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October 10 | Theresienstadt Ghetto established |
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October 11 | Chernovtsy ghetto established |
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October 23 | Jewish emigration from Germany prohibited |
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November 1 | Belzec extermination camp begins construction |
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November 25 | The Association des Juifs en Belgique (Association of Jews in Belgium) established |
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December | Lwow ghetto established |
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December 7 | Japan attacks the United States at Pearl Harbor;
Night and Fog Decree |
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December 8 | Chelmno death camp opens near Lodz, Poland |
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December 10 | Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, the United States reciprocates |
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January 20 | Wannsee Conference |
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January 21 | Jews in Vilna create the Fareynegte Partizaner Organizatsye (United Partisan Organization) |
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February 23 | The Sturma sinks after being refused entry into Palestine |
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March | Start of "Aktion Rheinhard" |
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March | First transports of Jews to Auschwitz |
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March 1 | Sobibor camp established |
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March 16 | Belzec camp established |
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March 25 | Kolomyia ghetto established |
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April 29 | Jews in Netherlands must wear the yellow Star of David |
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April 30 | Pinsk ghetto established |
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May 1 | Dvinsk ghetto is virtually liquidated |
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May 27 | Heydrich is severely wounded - dies on June 4 |
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June 3 | Jews in Belgium must wear the yellow Star of David |
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June 7 | Jews in occupied France must wear the yellow Star of David;
United States wins battle at Midway |
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June 10 | Nazis revenge death of Heydrich - wipe out Lidice, Czechoslovakia |
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July 20 | Jewish uprising at Nesvizh |
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July 23 | Treblinka camp established |
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July 28 | The Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Jewish Fighting Organization) established in Warsaw |
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August 9 | Mir ghetto liquidated - Armed Jews resist |
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August 16-18 | Radom ghetto liquidated |
Sept. 15 -
Jan. 31, 1943 | Battle of Stalingrad |
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November 8 | Operation Torch begins |
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January 18-22 | First Warsaw ghetto uprising |
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February 24 | Salonika ghetto established |
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February 26 | First transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz - placed in Auschwitz II in the "Gypsy Camp" |
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February 29 | The Kolomyia ghetto is liquidated |
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April | Bergen-Belsen established |
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April 13 | Katyn Forest Massacre graves are discovered |
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April 19 | Revolt in the Warsaw ghetto (resisted for 27 days) |
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June 20 | The Ternopol ghetto is liquidated |
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June 25 | Revolt in Czestochowa, Poland ghetto |
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July 5 | The Sobibor extermination camp is made a concentration camp under Himmler's orders |
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August 2 | Revolt at Treblinka death camp |
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August 16 | Revolt of Bialystok ghetto |
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September 14 | The Minsk ghetto is liquidated |
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September 24 | The Vilna ghetto is liquidated |
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October 13 | Italy declares war on Germany |
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October 14 | Revolt in Sobibor |
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November 3 | Aktion Erntefest (Harvest Festival) begins - liquidates the Trawniki, the Poniatowa, and the Majdanek camps |
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Nov. 28 - Dec. 1 | Teheran Conference |
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March 19 | Germany invades Hungary |
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April 5 | Jews in Hungary must wear the yellow Star of David |
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April 7 | Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba escape from Auschwitz - their descriptions of Auschwitz reach the world and become known as the Auschwitz Protocols |
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June 6 | D-day |
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July 8 | The Kovno ghetto is liquidated |
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July 20 | Soviet troops liberate Majdanek concentration camp; assassination attempt on Hitler |
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July 28 | First major death march begins - Warsaw to Kutno |
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August 1 | Zigeunernacht - 40,000 Gypsies gassed in a single action at Auschwitz |
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August 1 - October 2 | Polish rebellion in Warsaw |
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October 6-7 | An uprising at Auschwitz by the Sonnderkommandos |
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November 2 | Gassings at Auschwitz terminated |
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December 16 | Battle of the Bulge |
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January 17 | Soviet troops liberate Warsaw;
"Death March" from Auschwitz begins;
Raoul Wallenberg is arrested by the Soviets |
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January 19 | Soviet troops liberate the Lodz ghetto (877 left out of 250,000 Jews) |
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January 27 | Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz |
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February 4-12 | Yalta Conference |
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April 5-6 | Buchenwald evacuated |
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April 9 | Mauthausen evacuated |
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April 11 | American troops liberate Buchenwald |
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April 12 | Franklin D. Roosevelt dies; Truman becomes President of the U.S. |
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April 15 | British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp |
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April 21 | Ravensbrück evacuated |
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April 28 | American troops liberate Dachau;
Mussolini shot by Italian partisans |
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April 29 | Ravensbrück is liberated |
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April 30 | Hitler commits suicide in the Berlin bunker |
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May 2 | Soviet troops take Berlin |
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May 3 | Nazis hand over Theresienstadt to the International Red Cross |
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May 5 | Liberation of Mauthausen |
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May 7 | The Germans surrender |
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May 8 | War in Europe ends (V-E Day) |
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May 23 | Himmler captured |
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July - August | Potsdam Conference |
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August 6 | Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
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August 8 | The Soviet Union declares war on Japan;
Allies establish the War Crimes Tribunal |
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August 9 | Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki |
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August 15 | Japan surrenders |
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November 22 | Nuremberg trials (ends October 1, 1946) |
