APRIL

1933

April 01     Boycott of Jewish businesses
April 07     Civil service "reform"
April 21     Jewish ritual slaughter banned
April 25     School quota system

1939

April 27     Conscription in Great Britain
April 27-28     Germany cancels Non-Aggression Pact with Poland and 1935 Naval Agreement with Britain

1940

April 09     Germany invades Denmark and Norway
April 30     Lodz ghetto sealed

1941

April 06     Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
April 09     Germany occupies Salonika
April 24     Lublin ghetto sealed

1942

April          Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee established in USSR
April 08     Einsatzgruppen report: no Jews left in Crimea
April 30     Pinsk ghetto established

1943

April 19     Warsaw ghetto uprising begins

1944

April 07     Two Jewish prisoners deliver "Auschwitz Protocols"
April 16     Hungarian Government registers Jews and confiscates their property
April 25     Blood for trucks negotiations start

1945

April 11     Americans liberate Buchenwald
April 12     FDR dies succeeded by Truman
April 15     British forces liberate Bergen-Belsen
April 25     American and Soviet Troops meet at the River Elbe
April 28     Mussolini shot
April 30     Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide