HOLOCAUST TIMELINE

01/09/1939	Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.
02/09/1939	The Germans start construction of Stutthof concentration camp in which 65,000 Polish Christians will ultimately perish.
08/09/1939	At Bedzin, 200 Jews are burned alive in a synagogue by the Germans who charge Poles with the crime, and then execute 30 of them in a public square.
21/09/1939	Heydrich issues instructions to SS Einsatzgruppen (special action squads) in Poland regarding treatment of Jews, stating they are to be gathered into ghettos near railroads for the future "final goal." He also orders a census and the establishment of Jewish administrative councils within the ghettos to implement Nazi policies and decrees.
23/09/1939	German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets.
29/09/1939	Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. Over two million Jews reside in Nazi controlled areas, leaving 1.3 million in the Soviet area.
30/09/1939	Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).
06/10/1939	Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews.
12/10/1939	Evacuation of Jews from Vienna.
18/10/1939	The first Jewish ghetto is established in Lublin.
26/10/1939	Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60.
02/11/1939	The first transport of Polish women arrives at Ravensbruck concentration camp.
23/11/1939	Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.

25/01/1940Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as site of new concentration camp. 12/02/1940
First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.
27/04/1940Himmler signs the order that initiates construction of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.30/04/1940The Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 Jews locked inside. 01/05/1940Rudolf Höss is chosen to be kommandant of Auschwitz. 15/06/1940The Germans open Auschwitz concentration camp, officially to provide 100,000 labour force for I.G Farben factory. 17/07/1940The first anti-Jewish measures are taken in Vichy France. 08/08/1940Romania introduces anti-Jewish measures restricting education and employment, then later begins "Romanianization" of Jewish businesses.28/08/1940Vichy French radio announces that laws protecting Jews in France have been dropped. 03/10/1940Vichy France passes its own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws.09/10/1940Dutch decree, bans Jews and ‘half-Jews’ from public employment.22/10/1940Deportation of 29,000 German Jews from Baden, the Saar, and Alsace-Lorraine into Vichy France. 15/11/1940The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.