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GLOSSARY
EDUCATOR RESOURCE: TIMELINE
TIMELINE


1941
September 19

German Jews are ordered to wear the Jewish Badge


September 29 -- September 30

33,771 Jews are murdered at Babi Yar near Kiev (Ukraine) by members of Einsatzgruppe C


October 1

The first transport (of prisoners of war) reaches Majdanek (Poland) extermination camp


October 15

Deportation of German and Austrian Jews to ghettos in the East begins


October 28

Germans murder thousands of Kovno (Lithuania) Jews


November 5 -- November 9

Roma deported from Germany and Austria


November 24

A ghetto is established in Theresienstadt, near Prague (former Czechoslovakia)


November 30

30,000 Riga (Latvia) Jews are arrested and subsequently shot in the Rumbula Forest


December 7

The Japanese surprise attack the American Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, then a US territory


December 7

The German army issues “Night and Fog” order


December 8

The United States enters World War II


December 8

Killing operations begin at Chelmno (Poland) extermination camp


December 31

The Jewish underground in Vilna issues a partisan manifesto calling for resistance