Duffy-Final Project 1941-1945

Events

6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest, Romania

Jan 9, 1941

Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe

Feb 9, 1941

Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews

Jan 20, 1942

Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France

April 29, 1942

The first Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Jan 18, 1943

Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed

Aug 2,1943

Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established

Jan 11, 1944

Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz

Jun 20, 1944

Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp

Jan 15, 1945

Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation

Jan 17, 1945