Today Bruns looked at our pictures and we got extra credit!
1939
jews required to wear armbands or yellow stars
hilter orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in germany and austria
1940
nazis begin deporting german jews to poland- poland is where a lot of the concentration camps were
jews are forced into ghettos
nazis begin the first mass murder of jews in poland
ghettos- lots of people thrown into one place- terrible conditions- some jews resisted but they would be killed if they didnt win out
1941
jews throughout easter europe are forced into ghettos
in two days, german units shot 33,771 ukrainian jews at babiyar- the largest single massacre of the holocaust
the death camp at chelmno in poland begins murdering jews
1942
nazis officals announce final solution- their plan to kill all european jews
five death camps begin operation in poland
ghettos of eastern europe are being emptied as throusands of jews are shipped to death camps
the united states, great britain, and the soviet union ackowledge that germans are exterminating the jews of europe.
1943
jews in the warsaw ghetto resist as the nazis begin new rounds of deportations. These jews hold out for nearly a month before the nazis put down the uprising
1944
hilter takes over hungary and begins deporting jews
1945
hitler is defeated and WWII ends in europe
the holocaust is over and the death camps are emptied
many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them
1947
the united nations establishes a jewish homeland in british- controled Palestine, which becomes the state of Israel in 1948.
auschwitz- most famous death camp
seperated people based on how well they could work
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