The Holocaust

was a unique event in world history, the systematic and industrial attempt to destroy a group of people based on their religious nationality. Hitler's obsession with killing the Jews of Europe drove many of his policies and while he was ultimately not successful in killing all the Jews of Europe, Six Million Jews were killed in the lands that he conquered. The following are the major events from the time of the invasion of Poland until the final end of the Third Reich. They are only the major events and the full story of the holocaust deserves a more in depth examination. The video below is an eight minute summary of the major events in the history of the holocaust.

September-1939 February 1940 First Actions Against the Jews of Poland January 23, 1942 Treblinka Begins Gassing Operations November 15, 1940 Warsaw Ghetto Sealed April - May 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising July 1941 Einsatzgruppen October 1943 Revolt in Sobibor September 29th-30th 1941 Babi Yar May 15, 1944 Hungarian Jews Deported to Auschwitz Janaury 20th,1942 Wansee Conference January 27, 1945 Auschwitz Liberated March 1, 1942 Auschwitz Birkenau Opened APRIL 11, 1945 US Forces Liberate the Buchenwald Camp