Hitler named Chancellor of Germany Germany passes the

Hitler named Chancellor of Germany

Germany passes the Nuremberg Laws

Kristallnacht

Germany invades Poland

Germans establish Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland

Einsatzgruppen actions result in murder of 1. 5 million Jews

Heydrich receives authorization via Herman Goering to implement a Final Solution to the Jewish Problem

Wannsee Conference convened by Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann to alert other agencies to the plans for the “Final Solution”

Krematoria II at Auschwitz-Birkenau Jews being deported to Treblinka Death camps operational and deportations occurring regularly

Deportation of Hungarian Jews

Death marches to German concentration camps

Liberation of German concentration camps

Generals Eisenhower and Patton tour the DP camp at Feldafing after Eisenhower received a strongly worded cable from President Truman directing him to institute reforms to improve the living conditions of displaced Jews in the American zone of occupation. General Eisenhower moves to establish Jewish Displaced Persons Camps following recommendation in Harrison Report

President Truman issues an executive order, the "Truman Directive, " requiring that existing immigration quotas be designated for displaced persons. Many Jewish Holocaust survivors emigrate under this provision.

Kielce Pogrom – Polish citizens murder 42 Jews

Israel established as an independent Jewish state

Final displaced persons camp, Foehrenwald, closes