Timeline of Jewish Persecution in the Holocaust. January. The United Nations establishes the United Nations War Crimes Commission to handle future prosecution of Nazi war criminals. Christian Wirth, Nazi executions expert, hooks an armored- car diesel engine to the gas chambers at Belzec. Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon B begin at Auschwitz- Birkenau. The bodies are buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow. The history of eugenics is the study of development and advocacy of ideas related to eugenics around the world. Early eugenic ideas were discussed in Ancient Greece.When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”. Nearly all of the remaining Jews in Odessa, Ukraine, are deported to concentration camps. A special medical commission visits the Gross- Rosen concentration camp to select human subjects for medical experimentation. In France, Joseph Darnand establishes the Milice Fran. The United Nations is formed in Washington, D.
C., by 2. 6 signatories who agree to work together to defeat the nations of the Tripartate Pact, and to work for a single, commonly shared resolution to the war. In the U. S., the Counter- Intelligence Corps (CIC) is established to investigate and arrest suspected Nazi war criminals. The Germans execute 2. Czechoslovakian workers for sabotage. January 5. The Jewish ghetto at Kharkov, Ukraine, is liquidated. January 6. Molotov hands over information on mass graves. January 7. Throughout the day at the Chelmno death camp, Jewish deportees from nearby villages are systematically gassed in vans; German and Ukrainian workers pull gold teeth and fillings from the corpses' mouths. Germans undertake van gassings of 5. Gypsies from L. The British Foreign Office approves the declaration but doesn't mention Jews. January 1. 4Concentration and expulsion of Dutch Jewry begins. The United States blacklists 1. European companies, making it illegal for any American to continue or begin business transactions with them. January 1. 6Red Army Major Senitsa Vershovsky is shot by an Einsatzkommando unit at Kremenchug, Ukraine, for protecting Jews. Start of the “resettlements” from Lodz to the extermination camp Chelmno. January 1. 7Walter von Reichenau, a Wehrmacht general who cooperated with Einsatzgruppen in Russia, dies of a heart attack. January 1. 9Soviet forces recapture Mozhaisk, the closest that German troops had come to Moscow. With this, the Soviet capital is saved from occupation. January 2. 0The Wannsee Conference of top Nazi leaders is held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee; attending are Heydrich, Meyer, Leibbrandt, Stuckart, Neumann, Freisler, B. Figures also are given for nations not yet under Nazi control, including England (3. Spain (6. 00. 0), Switzerland (1. Sweden (1. 8,0. 00), and Turkey (5. The total meeting time is less than 9. January 2. 1Jews in the Vilna Ghetto establish the Unified Partisan Organization to resist Nazi terror. January 2. 1- 2. 3Hungarian Fascists drive 5. Jews and 2. 92 Serbs to the Danube River at Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. They force them onto the ice, shoot the ice to break it up, and then shoot those who do not quickly drown. January 2. 4Four hundred Jewish intellectuals are arrested and subsequently murdered in Kolomyia, Ukraine. January 3. 0In a speech to the German public, Hitler commemorates the ninth anniversary of his taking power, declaring that the end result of the war will not be the destruction of the Aryans but will be the complete annihilation of the Jews. The speech is monitored in Washington, D. C., and London. January 3. Report from Einsatzgruppe A pertaining to the. Jews in the Baltic states. Late January 1. 94. Start of deportations to Theresienstadt. February. Thirty- three Jewish doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto begin a study of the effects of starvation as they themselves slowly starve to death. Jewish partisans in the Eastern Galicia region of Poland attack German troops in several locations. Bricks and cut stone made by concentration- camp inmates are diverted from future official monuments and buildings to construct badly needed German arms factories. February 1. The SSWirtschafts- Verwaltungshauptamt (Economic- Administrative Main Office; WVHA), led by Oswald Pohl, is established. February 1. 3At the Minsk Ghetto, Nazis execute Jewish leaders deported from Hamburg, Germany, three months earlier. February 1. 5The first mass gassings of Jews at the Auschwitz death camp begin. February 1. 9Jews at the Dvinsk concentration camp are forced to witness the execution of a Jewish woman who exchanged a piece of cloth with a non- Jewish inmate for a box of flour. February 2. 2Ten thousand Jews are deported from the L. More than 7. 00 Jewish passengers attempting to save their lives by reaching Palestine are drowned. Only one passenger survives. March. Mass murder of Jews in Charkow (Kharkov), Ukraine (1. This month, nearly 5. Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto die of starvation. Jews from the L. By October 1. Jews had been murdered there. March 1- 2. Thousands of Belorussian Jews are transported to Koidanav, Belorussia, where they are murdered. March 2. Six Jews at the Jan. Children from a Jewish nursery in the Minsk Ghetto are thrown into a sandpit, tossed sweets, and then smothered to death. More than 5. 00. 0 Jewish adults from Minsk are also killed. March 3. Belgian Jews are drafted for forced labor. March 5. In the wake of the February 2. Struma sinking, the British War Cabinet reaffirms its decision not to allow “illegal” Jewish refugees admission to Palestine. March 6. First conference on sterilization: Definitions. During a meeting at the Head Office for Reich Security, Adolf Eichmann emphasizes the need for strict security during deportation and annihilation of Jews presently living in Germany, Austria, Moravia, and Bohemia. March 1. 3Germans have already killed 2. Jews in Ukraine alone. March 1. 4At Ilja, Poland, Jews sent to labor on a farm join Soviet partisans in a nearby forest. In reprisal, the Germans shoot old and sick Jews in the streets, then herd more than 9. Jews into a building that is set ablaze. All inside die. March 1. Trumpeting his Wehrmacht,Hitler predicts that the Red Army will be “beaten in every direction in the summer.”March 1. More than 1. 80. 0 Jews from Pochep, Russia, are executed. March 1. 7Extermination camp Belzec established. Full- scale extermination begins; deportees are accepted from Poland and from as far away as the western provinces of Germany. By the end of 1. 94. Jews will be murdered there. From March 1. 7 until April 1. Jews from the Lublin Ghetto are deported to the Belzec death camp. March 1. 9Nazis arrest and deport to Auschwitz 5. Jews from Krak. March 2. Public notices pertaining to the identification of. Jewish homes in Germany. Between March and October 1. Slovakian Jews, some to Auschwitz, others to the extermination. Majdanek. The first transport of Jews sent by Adolf Eichmann's office goes to Auschwitz. March 2. 7The first deportations of Jews from France to Auschwitz begin. By the end of 1. 94. Germans had deported more than 7. Jews from France to camps in the East, above all, to the Auschwitz- Birkenau killing center in Occupied Poland, where most of them perished. March 2. 8Fritz Sauckel is named chief of manpower to expedite recruitment of slave labor. March 3. 1German troops raid the Minsk Ghetto, searching for and arresting Jewish Resistance leaders. Arrival of initial transports of Jews at the. Auschwitz (Auschwitz I &. Auschwitz II). Fifteen thousand Jews are deported from Lvov, Ukraine, to Belzec. April. German SS and police united deport Jews from Lublin, in the General Government, to Belzec, where they are killed. The Lublin deportations are the first major deportations carried out under Operation Reinhard, the code name for the German plan to kill more than 2 million Jews living in the General Government of Occupied Poland. Prohibition of the use of public transportation by Jews. Taking a seat in the. Additional restrictions during the course of World War. II: Jews were forbidden to use public telephones and automatic ticket. All electrical or optical equipment had. Jews could not obtain any seafood items or ration cards. They were not allowed any white. Jewish Anti- Facist Committee established in USSR. Sobib. They are deported to the Belzec death camp. April 5. The Lutheran Church of Norway issues “Kirken grunn” (“Foundations of the Church”), a letter condemning Nazism and racism and protesting efforts of Vidkun Quisling, Norway’s German puppet, to “nazify” Norway’s churches. April 8. Einsatzgruppen. Report: No Jews left in Crimea. April 1. 1A German proclamation issued in Lvov, Ukraine, excoriates Polish civilians who assist Jews. Three thousand Jews from Zamosc, Poland, are deported to the Belzec death camp. April 1. 6SS officials in the Ukraine inform authorities in Berlin that the Crimea is judenrein (purged of Jews). April 1. 7The Nazi government decrees that apartments occupied by Jews in Greater Germany must be identified as such. April 1. 8In the Warsaw Ghetto, 5. This will become known as “The Night of Blood.”One thousand Jews who leave the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto by train for a ghetto at Rejowiec, Poland, are diverted to the death camp at Sobib. Other Theresienstadt deportees are sent to their deaths at the Sobib. Twenty thousand Jews will move into it. Twelve hundred Jews are killed in Diatlovo, Belorussia. The Jews offer armed resistance, but it is futile. May. More than 3. Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto die of starvation. Nazis force their way into Jewish apartments in Warsaw, shoot and club the residents, and throw the bodies from windows. A slave- labor camp opens near Minsk, Belorussia. Small groups of Jewish youths manage to escape into the woods outside Lida and Stolpce, towns in Belorussia. After trial gassings in April, an SS special detachment begin gassing operations at the Sobibor killing center. By November 1. 94. Jews at Sobibor. Slovakian Jews and resident Jews at Chelm are deported to the nearby Sobib. In addition, more than 3. Polish Jews from communities located between the Vistula and Bug rivers are gassed at Sobib. Other victims of this Aktion include orphans, residents of old- age homes, and women in the streets.
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