2

April

2018

Sara Ginaite Rubinson Passes Away.

2

July

2016

Elie Wiesel Passes Away

19

February

2016

Samuel Willenberg Dies

20

September

2005

Simon Wiesenthal Passed Away

13

July

2000

Jan Karski Passed Away

16

February

1987

John Demjanjuk Goes on Trial in Jerusalem

9

October

1974

Oskar Schindler Passes Away

31

May

1962

Adolph Eichmann is Sentenced to Death.

20

December

1962

The Second of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials Begins

15

December

1961

Adolf Eichmann is Sentenced to Death

11

May

1960

Mossad Captures Adolf Eichmann in Argentina

8

September

1952

West Germany and Israel Agree to Reparations Deal

7

June

1951

Oswald Pohl is Hanged

5

July

1950

Knesset Passes Law of Return

14

May

1948

State of Israel is Founded

17

July

1947

Raoul Wallenberg "Passes Away"

11

July

1947

4,500 Jews Sail Aboard SS Exodus

5

March

1947

The Justice Trial Begins

5

November

1945

Anti-Jewish Riots Break Out in Tripoli, Libya

5

May

1945

Allied Troops Liberate Mauthausen Concentration Camp

29

April

1945

US Liberates Dachau

29

April

1945

American Troops Liberate Dachau

26

April

1945

The Death Marches from Dachau Begin

15

April

1945

British Army Liberates Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

11

April

1945

The United States Liberates Buchenwald Concentration Camp

13

February

1945

Soviets Liberate Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp

27

January

1945

Liberation of Auschwitz

19

January

1945

Łódź Ghetto is Liberated

26

January

1945

Abba Berdichev is Executed

18

January

1945

Liberation of Budapest Ghetto

18

January

1945

Start of the Death Marches from Auschwitz

7

November

1944

Hungarian Arrow Cross Regime Execute Poet Hannah Szenes

7

October

1944

Sonderkommando Revolt Takes Place at Auschwitz-Birkenau

11

August

1944

Joop Westerweel is Murdered by Nazis for helping Jews

15

May

1944

Mass Deportation of Hungarian Jews Begin

1

October

1943

Hitler Orders the Arrest of all Danish Jews

15

April

1944

First Jewish Transport of Jews from Athens Arrive at Auschwitz

14

October

1943

Prisoner Revolt at Sobibor Takes Place

3

November

1943

Nazis Murder 42,000 Jews in Operation Harvest Festival

16

August

1943

Bialystok Ghetto Uprising

Jewish Resistance

8

May

1943

Jewish Resistance Fighter, Mordechai Anielewicz, is Killed

2

August

1943

Treblinka Prisoner Revolt

16

May

1943

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Ends

19

April

1943

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins

24

April

1943

Rabbi Menachem Ziemba is Killed in the Warsaw Ghetto

19

April

1943

Jews Headed for Auschwitz are Freed by Members of the Belgian Resistance Movement

19

April

1943

British and American Delegations meet in Bermuda to Discuss World War II Refugee Problem

18

February

1943

The Shanghai Ghetto is Established

9

February

1943

Resistance Fighter Zofia Yamaika Dies

10

January

1943

Liquidation of the Minsk Mazowiecki Ghetto

16

November

1942

Joseph Schmidt Passes Away

Jews in Entertainment

22

July

1942

Nazis Implement the Grossaktion (Great Action)

13

July

1942

Nazis Execute 5,000 Jews in Rivne, Ukraine

3

June

1942

Jews in France are Forced to Sew Yellow Star onto their Coats

21

May

1942

Germans Conduct First Roundup of Jews from the Chelm Ghetto

16

March

1942

Nazis Begin Transports of Jews from Lublin Ghetto to Belzec

20

January

1942

Wannsee Conference

12

February

1942

Avraham (Yair) Stern is Killed

8

December

1941

Nazis Begin Operations at Chełmno

5

January

1942

Liquidation of Kharkiv Ghetto

11

December

1941

Adolf Hitler Declares War on the United States

8

December

1941

Nazis and Lithuanian Collaborators Carry out Second Day of Mass Murders Against Jews in Riga, Latvia

22

October

1941

Romanian Collaborators Bomb Their Own Military Headquarters as Excuse to Murder More Jews

15

October

1941

Nazis Begin Operation Reinhard

8

August

1941

Romanian Jews Forced to Wear Yellow Stars

29

September

1941

Nazis and Their Collaborators Murder Over 33,000 Jews at Babi Yar

27

August

1941

Kamianets-Podilskyi Massacre

6

September

1941

Nazis Establish Vilna Ghetto

20

August

1941

Drancy Internment Camp Established in France

8

August

1941

Romanian Jews were Forced to Wear the Yellow Stars

1

August

1941

Bialystok Ghetto Established

22

June

1941

Operation Barbarossa Begins

14

May

1941

3,600 Jews are arrested in the "Green Ticket Roundup"

28

July

1941

Nazis Establish Minsk Ghetto

21

January

1941

Bucharest Pogrom

6

April

1941

The Nazis Invade Yugoslavia and Greece

1

July

1940

Nazis Establish Będzin Ghetto

30

April

1940

Nazis Seal Łódź Ghetto

15

August

1940

Eichmann Proposes The Madagascar Plan

25

February

1940

Dutch Armed Forces Surrender to the Germans

6

July

1939

Evian Conference Begins

8

February

1940

Łodź Ghetto is Established

23

November

1939

Nazis Force Polish Jews to Wear Blue and White Armbands

8

October

1939

Nazis Establish First Polish Ghetto in Piotrków

1

September

1939

Germany invades Poland

23

May

1939

Hitler's Chancellery Receives First Child's Euthanasia Request

10

November

1938

Jews from Central and Eastern Europe Arrive in Shanghai, China

12

November

1938

Nazis Blame November Pogrom on German Jews

9

November

1938

Nazis Carry out The November Pogrom ("Kristallnacht'"

27

October

1938

Nazis Order Arrest of 17,000 Polish Jews living within Reich

26

August

1938

Adolf Eichmann Established the Office of Jewish Emigration in Vienna

9

August

1938

Mauthausen Concentration Camp is Established

29

May

1938

Hungary Passes Anti-Jewish Laws

4

February

1938

Adolf Hitler Proclaims Himself the Supreme Commander of the German Armed Forces

13

March

1938

Germany Annexes Austria

15

July

1937

Buchenwald Concentration Camp Begins Operations

12

July

1936

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Opens

10

May

1933

Nazi Party Orders Student Groups to Burn Jewish Books

19

August

1934

Hitler Declared Himself Führer of the German Reich and People

26

April

1933

The Nazis establish the Gestapo