Chronology of Events

1933
January 30	Hitler appointed Chancellor of the German Reich
March 20	Dachau Concentration Camp opened
1935
September 15	Nuremberg Laws defined “a Jew”; German Jews lost citizenship
1938
October 28	17,000 Polish Jews expelled from German Reich
November 9	Crystal Night pogrom began against Jews in German Reich
1939
September 1	German troops invaded Poland
September 23	Judenrat (Jewish Council) appointed in Warsaw
mid-October	Hitler ordered T-4 Euthanasia program (backdated to September 1)
October 28	First closed ghetto established in Poland in Piotrokow Trybunalski
1940
April 30	Lodz ghetto sealed
June 14	German troops entered Paris
November 26	Warsaw ghetto sealed
1941
June 22	Germany invaded Soviet Union
December 7	Chelmno death camp in western Poland began operation
1942
January 20	Wannsee Conference in Berlin outlined Final Solution
July 17	Foreigners in Warsaw ghetto interned in Pawiak prison
July 22	Deportation of Warsaw Ghetto population to Treblinka began
July 23	Czerniakow, head of Warsaw ghetto Judenrat, committed suicide
September 21	Major deportations from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka ended
1943
January 18	Warsaw foreigners sent to Vittel; first armed resistance in the Warsaw ghetto occurred
April 19	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began
1944
February 25	SS Gripsholm exchanges from Lisbon recommenced
April-May	300 Polish Jews deported from Vittel to Drancy and to Auschwitz
August 1	Polish Uprising in Warsaw began
September 12	Vittel Internment Camp liberated
1945
January 26	Auschwitz death camp liberated
February 19	English-language edition of Berg’s diary published
April 30	Adolf Hitler committed suicide in bunker in Berlin
May 8	Victory in Europe declared by Allied Forces