Holocaust timeline

Pages used for human timeline - Holocaust and Anne Frank.

1. Otto Frank
immigrates to Holland
August, 1933

Edith and Margot follow
December, 1933

Anne arrives
February, 1934

2. Summer Olympic Games
Berlin
1936

3. Boycott of Jewish Shops
April 1, 1933

4. Germans hold a book burning
To burn books considered
“Un-German”

May 10, 1933

5. Kristallnacht
November 9, 1938

6. Germany Invades Poland
WWII has begun
September 1, 1939

7. Germany invades
The Netherlands, Belgium and
France
May, 1940

8. Otto Frank must register
as a Jew and can no longer
own his business

May, 1940

9. Operation Barbarossa
German Armed Forces
attack the
Soviet Union

June 22, 1941

10. All Jews required to
wear a Yellow Star
on their clothing

May 3, 1942

11. Anne receives her diary

June 12, 1942

12. Margot receives
a call up for “work duty” which
means deportation to a forced labor
camp.

The family
goes into hiding the next day.

July 5, 1942

13. First Jews deported to
extermination camps in Poland

July 1942

14. Battle for Stalingrad

October 27, 1942

15. SS General Rauter
Announces all Jews
will be “removed”
from the Netherlands


May 1, 1943

16. Raid in Amsterdam
3,000 Jews are deported to
extermination camps

May 26, 1943

17. Allies land in Sicily

July 10, 1943

18. Food situation dramatically
worsens in the Annex


1944

19. D-Day
Allied Invasion on
Beaches of Normandy

June 6, 1944

20. The Annex is discovered
The Franks, and all other residents,
are arrested.

August 4, 1944

21. All 8 residents of the Annex
taken by train to the
Westerbork Transit Camp


August 8, 1944

22. Margot and Anne
die of typhus in
Bergen Belsen
Concentration Camp


March, 1945

23. Hitler Appointed
Chancellor of Germany


January 30, 1933

24. After burning of the Reichstag
German Parliament passes
the Enabling Act
Giving dictatorial powers to Hitler


March 24, 1933

25. Hindenburg dies,
Hitler becomes Fuhrer


August 2, 1934

26. Hitler receives 90% Yes vote
to approve his new powers


August 19, 1934

27. Nuremberg Race Laws passed


September 15, 1935

28. 32 Countries convene A League of
Nations Conference in Evian, France
to discuss aiding Jews fleeing from
Hitler

No action is taken as no country
will accept them


July 1938

29. Nazis require Jews to add
“Sarah” or “Israel”
as their middle names,
in case their last name sounded to
Aryan.

Also required to stamp a red “J” on
all Jewish passports.

July-October 1938

30. Germany invades
Denmark and Norway


April 9, 1940

31. France signs an armistice
with Hitler

June 22, 1940

32. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
The next day, US and Great Britain
declare war on Japan.


December 7, 1941

33. Hitler declares war
on the United States.
Roosevelt asks Congress for a
declaration of war on Germany
saying,
"Never before has there been a
greater challenge to life, liberty and
civilization."

The US enters the war in Europe
and will concentrate nearly 90% of
military resources to defeat Hitler.


December 11, 1941

34. Beginning of deportation
of Dutch Jews to Aushwitz


July 14, 1942

35. Deportation of Jews from Norway
to Auschwitz begins


October 25, 1942

36. Russian troops liberate the first
concentration camp, at Majdanek
where over 360,000 had been
murdered.




July 24, 1944

37. The Van Pels join the Franks in
hiding.



July 13, 1942

38. Fritz Pfeffer (given the pseudonym
“Dussell” by Anne),
the eighth and final resident of the
Annex,
joins the families.


November 16, 1942

39. Bookcase built to hid the entrance
to the Secret Annex


August 21, 1942

40. Anne and her family receive news
of Jewish friends and family
in Holland.


October 9, 1942

41. Workman startles Anne and her
father by coming to do repairs
outside the Annex door.


October 20, 1942

42. The Annex exceeds their electricity
ration, cannot use electricity for
two weeks.


November 28, 1942

43. Anne and Mr. Pfeffer (Dussell)
argue over a new time schedule for
use of the desk in their shared room.


July 13, 1943

44. Break-in in the warehouse
below the Annex

July 16, 1943

45. North Amsterdam heavily bombed
by the Germans


July 19, 1943

46. The members of the Annex have to
give away their radio


August 3, 1943

47. Italy surrenders


September 10, 1943

48. Anne’s prize possession,
a fountain pen, is accidentally
destroyed


November 11, 1943

49. Anne’s friend Hanneli appears to
her in a dream, begging for help


November 27, 1943

50. Anne begins to develop feelings
for Peter



January 6, 1944

51. A second break-in
in the warehouse below the Annex.



March 1, 1944

52. Warehouse is broken
into a third time



April 11, 1944

53. Anne gets her first kiss


April 16, 1944