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1940
January
1/24/1940
Jewish property in "Generalgouvernement" registered
1/25/1940
Judenrat established in Lublin
1/26/1940
Warsaw Judenrat fined after ethnic German beaten in street
March
3/4/1940
Katyn massacre: Soviets execute tens of thousands of Polish officers
April
4/9/1940
Germany invades Denmark and Norway
4/30/1940
Lodz Ghetto sealed
May
5/10/1940
Germany invades Belgium and Netherlands
5/10/1940
Chamberlain resigns; Churchill Prime Minister of U.K.
5/26/1940
Allies Evacuate Forces at Dunkirk
June
6/14/1940
Germany occupies Paris
6/18/1940
Hitler presents Mussolini with Madagascar Plan
6/28/1940
USSR annexes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina from Romania
July
7/10/1940
Vichy government formed
7/19/1940
U.K. turns down German peace offer for recognition of domination in Western Europe
August
8/8/1940
"Battle of Britain" begins
8/8/1940
Antisemitic Racial Laws in Romania - "The Jewish Statute"
8/17/1940
Germany declares "total blockade of Britain"
September
9/7/1940
German "blitz" on England reaches climax
9/27/1940
Germany, Italy, and Japan conclude Tripartite Pact
October
10/3/1940
France enacts "Jewish Statute"
10/7/1940
Romania Consents to German Army Entry
10/22/1940
Jewish businesses in occupied Netherlands registered
10/28/1940
Registration of Jewish property in Belgium
10/28/1940
Italy invades Greece
November
11/16/1940
Warsaw Ghetto sealed
December
12/1/1940
"Oneg Shabbat" clandestine archives established
1941
January
1/21/1941
The Revolt of the Iron Guard; Anti-Jewish Riots in Romania
February
2/5/1941
Anti-Jewish Legislation in Romania, with German support
2/25/1941
Anti-Nazi strike in Amsterdam
March
3/1/1941
Construction of Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp begins
3/11/1941
U.S. Congress passes Lend-Lease Act
April
4/6/1941
Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
4/9/1941
Germany occupies Salonika
4/24/1941
Lublin Ghetto closed
May
5/10/1941
Rudolf Hess parachutes into Duke of Hamilton's estate
June
6/6/1941
"Commissar Order"
6/22/1941
"Operation Barbarossa"
6/23/1941
Einsatzgruppen begin killings in the USSR
6/24/1941
Germans occupy Vilna; in July, killings begin at Ponary, south of Vilna
6/28/1941
Romanian soldiers kill 14,000 Jews in Iasi
6/30/1941
Germany occupies Lvov; 4,000 Jews killed by July 3
6/30/1941
Einsatzkommando 4a and local Ukrainians kill 300 Jews in Lutsk
July
7/1/1941
Romanian units and Einsatzgruppe D shoot 160,000 Jews in Bessarabia between July 1 and August 31
7/4/1941
Vilna Judenrat established
7/8/1941
Murder of the Jews of Bukovina and Bessarabia begins
7/20/1941
Minsk Ghetto established
7/24/1941
Kishinev Ghetto established; 10,000 Jews already dead since the invasion
7/25/1941
Pogrom in Lvov
7/31/1941
Goering orders Heydrich to prepare a plan for the "Final Solution of Jewish Problem."
August
8/1/1941
50,000 Jews confined in Bialystok Ghetto
8/4/1941
Kovno Ghetto sealed
8/5/1941
Murders in Pinsk; 10,000 Jews killed in three days
8/27/1941
Massacre at Kamenets-Podolsk
September
9/1/1941
Nazi "Euthanasia Program" officially terminated
9/3/1941
First experimental gassings at Auschwitz
9/5/1941
Two ghettos established and sealed in Vilna
9/8/1941
Siege of Leningrad
9/12/1941
Hitler: "Leningrad will be starved into submission"
9/15/1941
150,000 Jews deported to Transnistria; 90,000 perish
9/19/1941
Germans in Kiev
9/19/1941
German Jews to wear Jewish badge in public
9/19/1941
Zhitomir Ghetto liquidated; 10,000 murdered
9/29/1941
33,771 Kiev Jews killed at Babi Yar
October
10/8/1941
Vitebsk Ghetto liquidated; more than 16,000 Jews murdered
10/11/1941
Jews of Czernowitz, Romania, ghettoized
10/12/1941
Germans reach outskirts of Moscow
10/15/1941
Deportation of German and Austrian Jews to ghettos in the East begins
10/16/1941
Odessa occupied and Jews massacred
10/24/1941
20,000 Jews transported to Dalnik; all murdered
10/25/1941
Eichmann approves plan for use of mobile gas vans
10/28/1941
Massacre in Kovno: more than 9,000 Jews killed
10/30/1941
Bratislava Jews expelled to rural Slovakia
November
11/1/1941
Construction of Belzec camp begins
11/1/1941
Romanians agree to the murder of Jewish citizens living outside Romania
11/15/1941
Jews murdered in Maly Trostinets, near Minsk
11/24/1941
"Model Camp" established in Theresienstadt
11/30/1941
30,000 Riga Jews arrested, subsequently shot at Rumbuli
December
12/6/1941
Soviets launch counteroffensive at Moscow
12/7/1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor; U.S. enters war
12/7/1941
"Night and Fog" suppresses resistance in Western Europe
12/8/1941
Gas vans introduced at Chelmno
12/11/1941
Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.
12/12/1941
First transport of Jews reaches Majdanek extermination camp
12/21/1941
More than 40,000 Jews shot at Bogdanovka
12/22/1941
33,500 of 57,000 Jews in Vilna already murdered
12/31/1941
First partisan manifesto in Vilna
1942
January
1/6/1942
Molotov hands over information on mass graves
1/14/1942
Concentration and expulsion of Dutch Jewry begin
1/16/1942
Deportation of some 55,000 people from Lodz to Chelmno begins
1/20/1942
Wannsee Conference
1/21/1942
United Partisan Organization established in Vilna
February
2/15/1942
Establishment of Jadu concentration camp in Libya
2/24/1942
Sinking of the "Struma"
March
3/13/1942
JDC: Germans have already killed 240,000 Jews in Ukraine alone
3/17/1942
Belzec Extermination Camp inaugurated
3/26/1942
58,000 Slovakian Jews deported
3/28/1942
First transport of French Jews to Auschwitz
April
4/1/1942
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee established in USSR
4/8/1942
Einsatzgruppen report: No Jews left in Crimea
4/30/1942
Pinsk Ghetto established
May
5/1/1942
First mass killing in Sobibor Extermination Camp
5/18/1942
The New York Times reports by May 18, more than 400,000 Jews shot by Germans
5/27/1942
Czech Underground assassinates Heydrich
June
6/2/1942
BBC: 700,000 Jews killed in Poland
6/2/1942
First Deportation of German Jews to Theresienstadt
6/7/1942
Deportation of Czernowitz Jews to Transnistria starts anew
6/10/1942
Germans obliterate Czech village
6/21/1942
Germans wrest Tobruk (Libya) from British
6/22/1942
First transports from Drancy Camp to Auschwitz
July
7/16/1942
13,000 Jews imprisoned in Paris
7/19/1942
Himmler: Elimination of all Jews in "Generalgouvernement" by end of 1942
7/21/1942
Mass protest rally at Madison Square Garden
7/22/1942
Construction of Treblinka completed
7/22/1942
Mass deportation from Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka begins
7/23/1942
Adam Czerniakow commits suicide
7/28/1942
Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) founded in Warsaw
August
8/8/1942
U.S. delays information on plan to annihilate Jews, in order to verify sources
8/10/1942
Deportations from Lvov to Belzec begin; 50,000 gassed
September
9/3/1942
Armed Jewish resistance in Lachva, Belarus
9/12/1942
The German Army reaches the suburbs of Stalingrad
9/24/1942
Uprising in Tuczyn Ghetto
October
10/23/1942
British begin counteroffensive at El Alamein
10/27/1942
Nazis inclined to nullify mixed marriages, sterilize "Mixed Breeds"
10/28/1942
First deportations from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz
10/29/1942
Most Pinsk Jews murdered
November
11/1/1942
First deportation from Bialystok district to Auschwitz
11/5/1942
"Europa" Rescue Plan
11/8/1942
U.K. and U.S. invade Northern Africa
11/9/1942
Germany occupies Tunisia
11/10/1942
British victories in Egypt
11/19/1942
Soviet counterattack near Stalingrad
December
12/4/1942
Council for Aid to Jews (Zegota) established in Poland
12/17/1942
Allies condemn German mass murder
12/23/1942
Jewish Fighting Organization attacks Germans in Cracow
1943
January
1/18/1943
Jewish Armed Resistance to Deportations from Warsaw Ghetto
February
2/2/1943
Germans Surrender at Stalingrad
2/5/1943
Deportation of 10,000 Jews from Bialystok to Treblinka Begins
2/25/1943
First Transports from Salonika to Auschwitz
2/26/1943
First Transport of Gypsies Reaches Auschwitz
March
3/4/1943
Jews of Thrace Deported to Treblinka
3/20/1943
First Deportations from Salonika arrive at Auschwitz
April
4/19/1943
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins
May
5/8/1943
Leaders of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Die
5/12/1943
Samuel Zygelbojm Commits Suicide
5/24/1943
Protest by Sofia Jews
June
6/1/1943
Lvov Ghetto Liquidated
6/21/1943
Himmler Orders Liquidation of All Ghettos in Occupied Soviet Territories
6/28/1943
Four Crematoria Completed at Auschwitz-Birkenau
July
7/5/1943
German Offensive at Kursk Fails
7/10/1943
Allies Invade Sicily
7/25/1943
Mussolini Deposed
August
8/2/1943
Uprising at Treblinka
8/8/1943
First of Five Organized Groups Leaves Vilna Ghetto to Join Partisans
8/15/1943
Bialystok Ghetto Liquidated
8/18/1943
Prisoners of Sonderkommando 1005 Made to Exhume Tens of Thousands of Bodies at Babi Yar
September
9/1/1943
Vilna Underground Uprising Fails
9/3/1943
Belgian Jews Arrested for Deportation to Auschwitz
9/15/1943
Deportation of Italian Jews to Auschwitz begins
9/23/1943
Vilna Ghetto Liquidated
October
10/1/1943
Danish Jews Rescued
10/14/1943
Uprising at Sobibor
10/18/1943
Jews of Rome Deported to Auschwitz
10/21/1943
Liquidation of Minsk Ghetto
10/25/1943
Dnepropetrovsk Liberated; 15 of 80,000 Jews Remain
November
11/3/1943
Germans Launch "Operation Harvest Festival" (Erntefest)
11/17/1943
Jewish Partisans Liberate Jews in Borshchev
11/28/1943
Teheran Conference
1944
January
1/26/1944
War Refugee Board Established
1/27/1944
Siege of Leningrad Ends
February
2/15/1944
Orphans return to Romania from Transnistria
March
3/18/1944
German Troops March into Hungary
3/24/1944
Roosevelt Warns Hungary to Refrain from Anti-Jewish Measures
3/30/1944
Soviets liberate Transnistria
April
4/7/1944
Two Jewish Prisoners Deliver "Auschwitz Protocols"
4/16/1944
Hungarian Government Registers Jews, Confiscates Their Property
4/25/1944
"Blood for Trucks" Negotiations Start
May
5/15/1944
Beginning of Mass Deportations of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau
June
6/4/1944
Americans Occupy Rome
6/6/1944
"D-Day"
6/9/1944
Hannah Szenes Arrested in Hungary
6/13/1944
Germany Launches First V-1 Rockets at England
6/23/1944
Red Cross Mission Visits Theresienstadt
July
7/3/1944
Minsk Liberated; Few of 80,000 Jews Survive
7/7/1944
Hungarian Government Halts Deportations
7/8/1944
Kovno Ghetto Liquidated
7/13/1944
Jewish Partisans Help Liberate Vilna; 2,500 of 57,000 Jews Survive
7/20/1944
Attempt to Assassinate Hitler Fails
7/22/1944
Lvov Liberated; 110,000 Jews Dead
7/24/1944
Jews from Rhodes and Kos deported to Auschwitz
7/25/1944
Red Army Liberates Majdanek
August
8/7/1944
Liquidation of Lodz Ghetto Begins; 74,000 Jews Deported to Auschwitz
8/23/1944
Romania surrenders to the Soviet Union
8/28/1944
Slovak National Uprising Begins
September
9/4/1944
Antwerp Liberated
9/28/1944
Churchill Announces Formation of Jewish Brigade
October
10/3/1944
Polish Uprising in Warsaw Crushed
10/7/1944
Sonderkommando Uprising at Auschwitz
November
11/8/1944
Deportations from Budapest Resume
11/25/1944
Germans Stop Gassings at Auschwitz
December
12/16/1944
"Battle of the Bulge"
1945
January
1/16/1945
Soviets Liberate Half of Budapest
1/17/1945
Soviets Liberate Warsaw; Few Jews Remain
1/18/1945
Auschwitz Abandoned; Death March of Prisoners Begins
1/19/1945
Soviets Liberate Lodz
1/27/1945
Soviets Liberate Auschwitz
February
2/1/1945
Forty Thousand Prisoners Marched Out of Gross-Rosen
2/13/1945
RAF and USAF Air Raids Devastate Dresden
April
4/11/1945
Americans Liberate Buchenwald
4/12/1945
FDR Dies, Succeeded by Truman
4/15/1945
British Forces Liberate Bergen-Belsen
4/25/1945
American and Soviet Troops Meet at the River Elbe
4/28/1945
Mussolini Shot
4/30/1945
Hitler Commits Suicide
May
5/2/1945
Soviets Occupy Berlin
5/5/1945
Mauthausen Liberated
5/7/1945
Germany Surrenders to Allies
5/8/1945
V-E Day - The War in Europe is Officially Over
July
7/16/1945
Potsdam Conference
August
8/6/1945
Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima; Nagasaki Bombed Three Days Later
October
10/18/1945
Nuremberg Trials Begin
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