Holocaust Chronicle

Never Forget. זכור #HolocaustRemembranceDay

May 4, 1943-May 25, 1943: Four deportations of #Jews from #Holland to the death camps at #Auschwitz & Sobibór total 8000 people. #OnThisDay

May 3, 1943: German troops in the "Aryan" section of Warsaw arrest & kill 21 women who are #Jewish or suspected of being Jewish. #OnThisDay

May 2, 1943: Four thousand #Jews from Miedzyrzec Podlaski, #Poland, are murdered at the Treblinka death camp. #OnThisDay #Holocaust #History

May 1, 1943: Many members of the Brody, #Ukraine, #Jewish community are killed at the Majdanek death camp. #OnThisDay #Holocaust

March 17, 1936: A mass demonstration of Polish Jews, left-wingers, and liberals protests antisemitism in Poland. #OnThisDay #Holocaust

March 9, 1936: Jews are killed and injured during an antisemitic pogrom at Przytyk, Poland. #OnThisDay #Holocaust #Jewish #History

March 8-13, 1943: Jews are part of a Red Army force that mounts a massive offensive against the Germans at Sokolov, Russia. #OnThisDay

March 7, 1944: Polish historian & Warsaw Ghetto archivist Emanuel Ringelblum is among 38 Jews captured by the Gestapo in the "Aryan" section

March 6, 1942: Eichmann emphasizes the need for strict security during deportation of Jews living in Germany, Austria, Moravia, & Bohemia.

March 5, 1944: Max Jacob, a baptized Catholic forced to wear the Yellow Star, dies at Drancy, France. #OnThisDay #Holocaust #Jewish

March 4, 1944: 4 Jewish women discovered in the "Aryan" section of Warsaw are murdered by Germans. #OnThisDay #Holocaust #Jewish #History

March 3, 1936: Henceforth, Jewish doctors are denied the right to practice medicine at German government hospitals. #OnThisDay #Holocaust

March 1-2, 1942: Thousands of Belorussian Jews are transported to Koidanav, Belorussia, where they are murdered. #OnThisDay #Holocaust

March 1943: Thousands of Jews are shot at Minsk, Belorussia; 50 escape and join the "Revenge" partisan group. #OnThisDay #Holocaust #History

February 21, 1940: Nazis in Warsaw, Poland, throw a Jewish woman from a moving streetcar. #OnThisDay

February 20, 1943: Crematorium II is completed at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It can burn 1440 bodies per day. #OnThisDay

Feb 19,1942:Jews at Dvinsk con. camp are forced to witness the execution of a Jewish woman who exchanged cloth with a non-Jewish inmate

Feb 18, 1945: 500 Jews married to Christians are seized throughout Germany and deported to the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto.

February 17, 1945: Seven Jews, including a small orphan girl, are murdered by a Pole in Sokoly, Poland. #OnThisDay

February 16, 1943: Theodor Eicke, inspector of concentration camps, dies in a plane crash. #OnThisDay

Feb 15, 1941: Germans begin deportations of 1000 Viennese Jewish men per week to a ghetto at Kielce as well as a camp at Lublin #OnThisDay

Feb 10, 1944: 800, including all of the children, are immediately gassed after arriving in Auschwitz.

February 9, 1939: Anti-Jewish legislation is passed in Italy. #OnThisDay

February 8, 1940: A Jewish ghetto is established at Lódz, Poland. #OnThisDay

February 7, 1940: Jews in Warsaw, Poland, are prohibited from visiting the city's public libraries. #OnThisDay

Feb 6, 1943: Himmler receives a report about the # of items taken from Jews at Auschwitz and other camps in the Lublin area. #OnThisDay

February 2, 1933: Political demonstrations are banned within Germany. #OnThisDay

January 31, 1941: 3000 Jewish deportees, mostly from the Polish town of Pruszków, arrive at the Warsaw Ghetto. #OnThisDay

January 30, 1934: Hitler publicly insists that Germany will not be deterred from its program of rearmament. #OnThisDay

January 29, 1944: A Nazi court in Kraków, Poland sentences 5 Poles to death for aiding Jews. #OnThisDay

January 28, 1933: German Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher resigns. #OnThisDay

January 27, 1945: Memel, Lithuania, is liberated by Soviet troops. #OnThisDay

January 26, 1934: Germany and Poland sign a ten-year nonaggression pact. #OnThisDay

January 18-25, 1940: 255 Polish Jews arrested at random in Warsaw are taken to the Palmiry Forest outside the city and shot. #OnThisDay

January 5, 1939: Germany declares Karaite Jews exempt from enforcement of the Nuremberg Laws. #OnThisDay #Germany #Jewish #History

Jan 4, 1943: The SS adm. office instructs all concentration-camp commandants to send human hair taken from Jews to Alex Zink's firm.

Jan 3, 1943: Polish President Raczkiewicz requests that Pope Pius XII denounce German atrocities against the Jews. Pius remains silent.

January 2, 1940: The Generalgouvernement in Poland decrees that Jews may not post obituaries. #OnThisDay #Holocaust #Jewish #History

Jan 1, 1939: Jews are eliminated from the German economy; their capital is seized, though some continue to work under Germans. #OnThisDay

Dec 31, 1942: By this date, the German Reich has deported more than 2 million Jews to death camps. #OnThisDay #Holocaust #Jewish #History

Dec 31, 1941: Abba Kovner calls for armed Jewish resistance to the Nazis, proclaiming, "We must not go like sheep to the slaughter!"

Dec 30, 1942: Pope Pius XII tells an American rep that he regards the stories about Jews as exaggerations "for the purposes of propaganda."

Dec 29, 1941: A Jewish physician from Prague, Dr. Karol Boetim, dies of typhus while treating patients at a Gypsy camp near the Lódz Ghetto.

December 28, 1942: 2 Jews are shot for mutiny at the Stalowa Wola, Poland, slave-labor camp. #OnThisDay #Holocaust #Jewish #History #Poland

December 1941: Mass executions of Jews from Odessa took place at Acmecetca and Dumanovca as well as at Bogdanovca, Romania. #OnThisDay

Dec 26, 1942: French royalist Fernand Bonnier de la Chapelle is executed by Vichy firing squad after fatally wounding Francois Jean Darlan.

Dec 25, 1943: Trucks carrying naked Jewish women make regular trips to the gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau. #OnThisDay #Holocaust #Jewish

Dec 24, 1943: At Borki, Poland, 60 Jews working on an exhumation squad attempt to escape through a tunnel, but few of them are successful.