Holocaust Timeline

• English
• Primary Education
• Age 13

Holocaust Timeline

Exploring the context and history of the Holocaust

Learning Objectives

A3.2 Identity and Community: demonstrate an understanding of the historical contexts, contributions, lived experiences and perspectives of a diversity of individuals and communities, by exploring and analyzing the concepts of identity, self, and sense of belonging in a variety of culturally responsive and relevant texts

What was the Holocaust?

The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million European Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators in the years leading up to and during World War II. 

(Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Other targets

Nazi's also targeted other groups, including:

• Roma (what they called 'gypsies'- an ethnic group whose ancestry originated in India and Pakistan)
• People with disabilities
• Other 'slavic' people (Poles, Russians)
• Communists
• Socialists
• Jehova's witnesses
• Homosexuals 
• Germans of African descent

German police guard a group of Roma (Gypsies) who have been rounded up for deportation to Poland. Germany, 1940–45.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lydia Chagoll

Victim: Who were they?

How were they mistreated?

What happened to them?

Laws and Decrees: 1933
Add the name of the decree and one sentence summarizing it

Laws and Decrees: 1935
Add the name of the decree and one sentence summarizing it

Laws and Decrees: 1938/39
Add the name of the decree and one sentence summarizing it

Laws and Decrees: 1941/42
Add the name of the decree and one sentence summarizing it

1933

1934

1938

1939

1940

Dachau

The Dauchau concentration camp is opened

Hitler Appointed

Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

Burning of Books

Jewish businesses boycotted

Kristallnacht

Night of Broken Glass- Jewish businesses and synagogues are targeted

Poland invaded

Germany Invades Norway and Denmark

Nazi Soviet Pact

Czecholslovakia Invaded

Italy enters the War

Auschwitz opened

Germany Invades Western Europe, Norway, Denmark

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

Germany Invades Soviet Union

U.S. enters war

Allied Forces Invade N. Africa

Operation Reinhard

Germany Occupies Hungary

Auschwitz is liberated (Otto Frank goes back to Amsterdam)

KWL Chart

Return to the KWL chart and fill in any new content that you have learned and identify any remaining

questions you would like to know more about.

Journal Entry

In paragraph form, via Teams, write about what you learned about the Holocaust, including who was targeted, how it affected individuals, what specific laws and historical events you learned about and how this information connects to our novel study of The Diary of Anne Frank.