| Chronology of the
Holocaust - 1939 |
| January
24 |
Goering
creates the Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration |
| March
15 |
Germans
occupy Bohemia and Moravia |
| March
28 |
Civil
war in Spain ends |
| April
27 |
Conscription
in Great Britain |
| April
27-28 |
Germany
cancels Non-Aggression Pact with Poland and 1935 Naval Agreement with
Britain |
| August
23 |
Nazis
Soviets sign Non-Aggression Pact |
| September
1 |
Germany
invades Poland |
| September
3 |
Britain,
France, India, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany |
| September
3 |
Britain
blockades Germany |
| September
17 |
Soviets
invade Poland |
| September
21 |
Heydrich
issues the "Schnellbrief" |
| September
28 |
Poland
partitioned |
| September
22 |
Establishment
of the Reich Security Main Office |
| October
4 |
Warsaw
Judenrat Is established |
| October
7 |
Jewish
"Resettlement" in the Lublin District |
| October
8 |
First
Jewish ghetto established in Piotrkow Trybunalski |
| October
26 |
Civil
Administration (the Generalgouvernement) established in Poland |
| November
8 |
Failed
attempt to assassinate Hitler in Munich |
| November
9 |
Lodz
incorporated into Reich |
| November
23 |
Jews
in Poland must wear the Jewish Badge |
| November
30 |
Soviets
invade Finland |
| December
2 |
Nazis
initiate use of gas vans to eliminate mental patients |
| December
14 |
USSR
expelled from League of Nations following pact with Germany |
| Chronology of the
Holocaust - 1940 |
| January
24 |
Jewish
property in Generalgouvernement registered |
| January
25 |
Judenrat
established in Lublin |
| January
26 |
Warsaw
Judenrat fined after ethnic German beaten in street |
| March |
Katyn
massacre: Soviets execute
thousands of Polish officers |
| April
9 |
Germany
invades Denmark and Norway |
| April
30 |
Lodz
ghetto sealed |
| May
10 |
Germany
invades Belgium and the Netherlands |
| May
10 |
Chamberlain
resigns; Churchill Prime Minister of U.K. |
| May
26 |
Allies
evacuate forces at Dunkirk |
| June
14 |
Germany
occupies Paris |
| June
18 |
Hitler
presents Mussolini with Madagascar Plan |
| July
10 |
Vichy
government formed |
| July
19 |
U.K.
turns down German peace offer for recognition of domination in Western
Europe |
| August
8 |
"Battle
of Britain" begins |
| August
17 |
Germany
declares "total blockade of Britain" |
| September
7 |
German
"Blitz" on England reaches climax |
| September
27 |
Germany,
Italy, and Japan conclude Tripartite Pact |
| October
3 |
France
enacts "Jewish Statute" |
| October
22 |
Jewish
businesses in occupied Netherlands registered |
| October
28 |
Registration
of Jewish property in Belgium |
| October
28 |
Italy
invades Greece |
| November
15 |
Warsaw
ghetto sealed |
| December |
"Oneg
Shabbat" clandestine archives established |
| Chronology of the
Holocaust - 1941 |
| February
25 |
Anti-Nazi
strike in Amsterdam |
| March
1 |
Construction
of Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp begins |
| March
11 |
U.S.
Congress passes Lend-Lease Act |
| April
6 |
Germany
invades Yugoslavia and Greece |
| April
9 |
Germany
occupies Salonika |
| April
24 |
Lublin
ghetto sealed |
| May
10 |
Rudolf
Hess parachutes into Duke of Hamilton's estate |
| June
6 |
"Commissar
Order" |
| June
22 |
"Operation
Barbarossa" |
| June
23 |
Einsatzgruppen
begin killings in the USSR |
| June
30 |
Einsatzgruppe
4a and Local Ukrainians kill 300 Jews in Lutsk |
| June
28 |
Romanian
"Iron Guard" kills 1,500 Jews in Iasi |
| June
30 |
Germany
occupies Lvov; 4,000 Jews killed by July 3 |
| July
1 |
Einsatzgruppe
D begins operating in Bessarabia; 160,000 Jews shot by August 31 |
| July
4 |
Vilna
Judenrat established |
| July
20 |
Minsk
ghetto established |
| July
24 |
Kishinev
ghetto established; 10,000 Jews dead |
| July
25 |
Pogrom
in Lvov |
| July
31 |
Heydrich
to plan "Final Solution" of Jewish problem |
| July |
Killings
begin at Ponary south of Vilna |
| August
1 |
50,000
Jews confined in Bialystok ghetto |
| August
4 |
Kovno
ghetto sealed |
| August
5 |
Murders
in Pinsk; 10,000 Jews killed in three days |
| August
27-28 |
Massacre
at Kamenets-Podolsk |
| September
1 |
Nazi
"Euthanasia Program" officially ended |
| September
19 |
German
Jews to wear Jewish badge |
| September
3 |
First
experimental gassings at Auschwitz |
| September
5 |
Two
ghettos established and sealed in Vilna |
| September
8 |
Siege
of Leningrad |
| September
12 |
Hitler:
"Leningrad will be starved into submission" |
| September
15 |
150,000
Jews deported to Transnistria; 90,000 die |
| September
19 |
Zhitomir
ghetto liquidated; 10,000 killed |
| September
19 |
Germans
in Kiev |
| September
29-30 |
33,771
Kiev Jews killed at Babi Yar |
| October
28 |
Thousands
of Kovno Jews killed at "Ninth Fort" |
| October
8 |
Vitebsk
ghetto liquidated; more than 16,000 Jews killed |
| October
11 |
Jews
of Czernowitz, Romania ghettoized |
| October
12 |
Germans
reach outskirts of Moscow |
| October
15 |
Deportation
of German and Austrian Jews to ghettos in the East begins |
| October
16 |
Odessa
occupied and Jews massacred |
| October
24 |
20,000
Jews transported to Dalnik; all killed |
| October
25 |
Eichmann
approves plan for use of mobile gas vans |
| October
28 |
Massacre
in Kovno more than 9,000 Jews killed |
| October
30 |
Bratislava
Jews expelled to rural Slovakia |
| October |
First
transport reaches Majdanek extermination camp |
| November
1 |
Construction
of Belzec camp begins |
| November
24 |
"Model
camp" established in Theresienstadt |
| November
30 |
30,000
Riga Jews arrested subsequently shot at Rumbuli |
| December
6 |
Soviets
launch counteroffensive at Moscow |
| December
7 |
Japanese
attack Pearl Harbor; U.S. enters war |
| December
7 |
"Night
and Fog" suppresses resistance in Western Europe |
| December
8 |
Gas
vans introduced at Chelmno |
| December
11 |
Germany
and Italy declare war on the U.S. |
| December
21 |
More
than 40,000 Jews shot at Bogdanovka |
| December
22 |
33,500
of 57,000 Jews in Vilna already murdered |
| December
31 |
First
partisan manifesto in Vilna |
