Table of Data Points
1942-05-27 | Operation Anthropoid | The assassination of top German SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, a chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi German programme for the genocide of the Jews of Europe. | Read about 'Operation Anthropoid' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Anthropoid' | ||
1942-05-09 | Zinkiv Massacre | SS troops murder five hundred and eighty eight Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv. | Read about 'Zinkiv Massacre' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Zinkiv Massacre' | ||
1942-04-18 | Laval becomes Vichy PM | Pierre Laval becomes the prime minister of Vichy France. While in office Laval signed orders permitting the deportation of Jews to extermination camps. After the war he was convicted of high treason and executed. | Read about 'Laval becomes Vichy PM' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Laval becomes Vichy PM' | ||
1942-03-31 | Stanislawow Ghetto | The Gestapo arrange the deportation of 5000 Jewish residents of the Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. This was one of the largest deportations in the early stages of the camp. | Read about 'Stanislawow Ghetto' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Stanislawow Ghetto' | ||
1942-03-26 | Women arrive at Auschwitz | For the first time the Auschwitz concentration camp begins taking female prisoners. | Read about 'Women arrive at Auschwitz' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Women arrive at Auschwitz' | ||
1941-12-15 | Drobytsky Yar | In a -15 degrees Celsius temperatures, German troops execute over 15,000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine. | Read about 'Drobytsky Yar' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Drobytsky Yar' | ||
1941-12-12 | Hitler condemns Jews | A meeting between Adolf Hitler and the highest ranking officials of the Nazi party, where he declares the imminent destruction of the Jewish race. | Read about 'Hitler condemns Jews' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Hitler condemns Jews' | ||
1941-12-08 | Chelmno Gas Vans | Gas vans are first used as a means of execution, at the Chelmno extermination camp near Lodz in Poland. | Read about 'Chelmno Gas Vans' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Chelmno Gas Vans' | ||
1941-10-30 | Belzec | 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp. | Read about 'Belzec' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Belzec' | ||
1941-10-29 | Kaunas Ghetto Massacre | In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action". | Read about 'Kaunas Ghetto Massacre' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Kaunas Ghetto Massacre' |
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