Children in the holocaust Timeline
January 30th,1933“Hitler” |
Hitler became the leader of Germany.
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(1933)“First Concentration Camp” |
Nazi’s opened up the first concentration camp called Dachau concentration camp near Munich, They also opened up other camps called Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrück for women.
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(1934)“Power”
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Hitler gains full powers because of the German President’s recent passing. 90 percent of the votes he got were a ‘Yes’, and then he gained full power.
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(1937)“Jobs” |
All Jews were banned from professional jobs. Some of them included: teaching Germans, accountants, dentists, and they were not allowed tax reductions. They were also not allowed to pay their children.
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(1938)“Schooling” |
All Jewish children were not allowed to go to any non-Jewish schools anymore. They were only able to go to Jewish schools which were in bad condition. They had poor schooling, and bad teachers.
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(1939)“Stay in” |
Jews were not able to be out after 8:00 p.m. in the winter and 9:00 p.m. in the summer. If they were seen out of their homes they would be shot on site or thrown in prison/concentration camps.
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(1940)“The Invasion” |
Hitler invaded France, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg. He collected the Jews from each place. In total of all four places there was a total of 558,500 Jews.
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(1941)“Killing of many” |
Chelmno extermination camp becomes operational. Jews were taken there and put in mobile gas vans and were drove to a burial place while carbon monoxide from the exhaust of the van was fed into a hole in the back of the van, killing them. The first gassing victims include 5,000 Gypsies who had been deported from the Reich to Lodz.
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(1942)“Auschwitz starts the killing” |
Mass killings of Jews using the gas chambers, begin at Auschwitz in Bunker (the red farmhouse.) In Birkenau (Auschwitz) the bodies were being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.
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(1942)“Many Jews” |
Auschwitz has to start making more gas chambers because the amount of Jews being brought in by the Nazis. That soon became the number one extermination camp around.
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(1943)“The workers” |
The camps started having Jews work instead of just being killed. The Nazis made them dig pits for burning all the bodies. This was to eliminate the trace of people that died there.
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(1943)“Gas Chambers” |
Newly built gas chambers were built at Auschwitz. With its completion, the four new crematoriums at Auschwitz have a daily capacity of 4,756 bodies.
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(1944)“Anne Frank” |
Anne Frank and her family are arrested by the Nazis in Amsterdam. They got sent to Auschwitz. Anne and her sister Margot later got sent to Bergen-Belsen. Anne later died of typhus on March 15, 1945.
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(1945)“Freeing” |
Russians free over 88,000 Jews from the camps they were in. Nazis evacuate over 66,000 Jews from Auschwitz. By then over 2,000,000 people including 1,500,000 Jews were murdered there.
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(1945)“Dead” |
Hitler commits suicide. He shot himself in the head so that he wouldn't get put in prison. Many other leaders that were with Hitler committed suicide after he did.
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Currently “Survivors” |
There are still Holocaust survivors living today that share their stories with others. They go to public speakings or have written books. Although they are starting to pass away their stories will be remembered forever. http://holocaust-children.tripod.com/survived.html
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Timeline information from:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
http://holocaust-children.tripod.com/survived.html
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
http://holocaust-children.tripod.com/survived.html