When did they Holocaust happen?

Answer 1

Basic when and where of the HolocaustTimespan of genocide (mass murder): 1941-1945.Locations: in Nazi occupied Europe. The extermination camps were nearly all in Nazi occupied Poland.

• Mass open air shootings of Jews began in June and July 1941 behind German lines in Lithuania, eastern Poland, Belarus, Latvia and the Ukraine (in the then Soviet Union). Obviously, persecution, oppression and enforced ghettoization had started earlier and had already taken their toll.
• Routine (as opposed to experimental) gassings of Jews began on 8 December 1941 at Chelmno.
• The extermination camps - Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka - were all situated in Nazi-occupied Poland.
• The Holocaust affected Jews throughout Nazi controlled territory between 1941 and 1945.
• The Holocaust took place in Germany and German-occupied Europe. It was not confined to any particular town or city.
• Two of Germany's allies - Romania and Croatia - carried out their own holocausts.
• The Holocaust ended in May 1945, but some camps and some areas were liberated earlier.

Start of the HolocaustThe Holocaust refers to genocide. Persecution and pogroms by the Nazis prior to the mass killings that started in 1941 do not have the obvious uniqueness of the Holocaust in the more precise sense. Even the events of the Night of the Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) - a massive pogrom - seem to have been designed to bully Jews in Germany into leaving the country. (One might regard the events of 1938-41 as a 'prelude' to the Holocaust).

Mass killings of Jews began in June 1941 as the death squads (SD-Einsatzgruppen) that followed the German armies into the Soviet Union began to operate behind the German lines.

The deportation of Jews from Berlin to Theresienstadt, to Riga (Latvia) and Maly Trostenets (Minsk, Belarus) started on 15 October 1941. Riga in Latvia and Maly Trostenets soon became a vast killing field for deported Berlin Jews.

The first large scale gassings took place at Chelmno on 8 December 1941. Further administrative details of Holocaust were worked out at the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942. (The actual 'conference' lasted only 90 minutes and was mainly concerned with co-ordinating the activities of the various agencies involved. Apart from a brief discussion of what to do about half-Jews and quarter-Jews, the meeting was not concerned with matters of policy).

AnswerThere's timeline at this link: ushmm.org Location of the HolocaustThe Holocaust did not happen in any one place. Everywhere the Germans conquered they exterminated the Jewish population and any other 'undersireables'. In the Soviet Union and parts of eastern Poland there were large scale mass executions throughout Nazi held territory. The extermination camps were nearly all in Poland.

The killings took place in:

1. Mass open air shootings (especially in the Soviet Union)

2. Exceptionally harsh concentration camps, where the prisoners were literally worked to death: they had to do heavy manual labour (such as quarrying and mining) on insufficient food.

3. Extermination camps, mainly located in Poland:

• Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Belzec
• Chelmno
• Majdanek (used mainly as a back-up)
• Sobibor
• Treblinka

The above camps were all in Poland. In addition, Maly Trostenets in Belarus is generally regarded as an extermination camp.

In Poland, Jews were herded into ghettos (such as the Warsaw Ghetto and the Lodz Ghetto) and given grossly insufficient food and not allowed medication. Many died of stavation and disease.

Two of Germany's allies, Romania and Croatia, carried out their own national holocausts.

Here is more input:

• In my opinion, the Holocaust happened in every town, every house, every heart that knew what was happening and did nothing. Most of the killing was done in Eastern Europe, as the previous post mentioned, especially Poland and Russia. But other countries all over Europe participated, shipping out their Jewish populations, out of fear or to get rid of undesirable peoples. Some of Germany's allies, such as Croatia and Romania conducted their own holocausts. As countries began closing their borders to Jewish refugees, including the US, they contributed indirectly to the death toll in the camps.

End of the HolocaustThe short answer: the Holocaust ended in 1945. Here are some longer answers:

• The holocaust ended in 1945 when World War 2 was about to end.
• The holocaust ended in specific places when the Allies liberated the camps in 1944-1945. The holocaust did not end completely till the end of WWII in Europe and the surrender of all German troops.
• The Holocaust ended a few days after Hitler committed suicide in 1945. However, even when camps were liberated the Death Rate from disease remained high for several weeks.

Answer 2

The Holocaust refers specifically to the Nazi genocide of the Jews. This is generally dated as 1941 to 1945 and took place in World War 2.

Of course, before the start of the Holocaust, the Jews in Nazi Germany and later also in other areas under German control were persecuted and killed, but is not the same thing as routine killings, which are the hallmark of genocide.

Routine mass gassings began at Chelmno on December 8, 1941, but the mobile killing units (SD-Einsatzgruppen) went on their first routine killing spree in Kaunas, Lithuania on June 25,1941.

Further administrative details of Holocaust were worked out at the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942. (The actual 'conference' lasted only 90 minutes and was mainly concerned with co-ordinating the activities of the various agencies involved. Apart from a brief discussion of what to do about half-Jews and quarter-Jews, the meeting was not concerned with matters of policy).

The Holocaust was over by May 9, 1945, when Stutthof was liberated. Most camps were liberated somewhat earlier.

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The Holocaust can be said to have begun at many different points, as it refers to a chain of events involving persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, and culminating in their systematic extermination in Europe.

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There's timeline at this link: ushmm.org

The Holocaust began with repressive measures to strip the wealth from and restrict the liberties of Jews in Germany immediately after the Nazis came to power in 1933. Systematic murder of Jews began in September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. However, the mechanical murder of Jews only truly began with the invasion of Russia in 1941. Some modification of the murder policy was implemented in 1943 when the tide of war went against Germany and more emphasis was placed on working Jews to death rather than by gassing and mass shooting. Tragically, the murder continued right up to the final days of war in 1945 when Jews were forced onto death marches from the camps back into Germany.

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If you are going to take the start of the Holocaust back to 1933, the term is redundant and you might as well just talk about persecution. What made Nazi persecution of the Jews and 'gypsies' different from most persecutions was genocide. That began in 1941, not 1933.

Answer 3

1941 until 1945

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No it began long before 1941! The first concentration camps and ghettos were set up in the 1930's. Dachau was established in 1933.

They were closed in 1945.

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Pushing the start of the Holocaust back to 1933 makes the term meaningless and redundant. Many, many dictators, such as Pinochet, have operated harsh prison camps. The Holocaust was estermination, not simply persecution.

Answer 4

Some people say that it began as soon as Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933, but I would say the real initiation of the Holocaust was when the Nazis became violent towards the Jews in an event called Kristallnacht - or The Night of Broken Glass.

Nazis looted and destroyed Jewish shops and holy places (synagogues). A few Jews died, and about 30 were arrested. After this, the violence and hostility towards the Jews only increased, until they were declared enemies of the Reich and were hunted and killed.

Answer 5

The Holocaust started in 1933 and ended in 1945. The Holocaust would of started 79 Years ago and ended 67 Years ago.

Answer 6

The Holocaust started in 1933(when the Germans took power), and ended in 1945.