10 Most Important Events of the Holocaust

By katiesteele13

  • Hitler Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler Chancellor of Germany
    Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany

  • First Concentration Camp was opened

    First Concentration Camp was opened
    The first concentration camp was opened at Dachau in Germany

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    "The Night Of Broken Glass" German Jews forced to pay a 1 billiion mark fine for the damage inflicted on them by the Nazi mobs. Approximately 100 Jews were murdered. 20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps, Hundreds of synagogues burned.

  • Germany conquers Poland

    The Nazi Reichskommisar for Jewish affairs, Reinhard Heydrich, orders that Polish Jews be gathered into ghettos near railways for future "final goal"

  • Yellow Star Introduced

    Yellow Star Introduced
    Jews in Poland were forced to sew a yellow star onto their clothes so that they could be easily identified.

  • Zuklon-B Gas

    Zuklon-B Gas
    first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz.

  • 'Death Marches'

    'Death Marches'
    Many remaining camps were closed and evidence of their existence destroyed. Those who had survived the camps so far were taken on forced 'Death Marches'.

  • Surrender of Germany

  • Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg Trials
    The Nuremburg Trials were held in Nuremburg, Germany. The trail was needed to punish people who commited crimes during the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler was most to blame for the Holocaust but was missing at the trials because he had committed suicide. (Ended October 1, 1946)