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A Timeline of the Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv

1941

22 June- Operation Barbarossa begins

29 June- Wehrmacht troops enter Lviv

July- A series of antisemitic pogroms takes place throughout Lviv carried out by local non-Jews

3 July- Professor Aktion; victims shot in the Lyczakow Forest

31 July- Heydrich tasked with preparing for the Final Solution

August- Mohwinkel and Gebauer arrive in Lviv to set up DAW

1 August- Distrikt Galizien created under governor Karl Lasch

8 August- Friedrich Katzmann appointed SS and Police Leader for Distrikt Galizien

31 October- DAW-Lemberg sealed

November- Gustav Willhaus becomes deputy commandant of the DAW-L to Fritz Gebauer

1 November- Construction begins on the Bełżec extermination center, the destination for the majority of Lviv Jews

8 November- Lviv Jews ordered to move into a ghetto north of the city.

1942

January- Adolf Kolonko arrives in the camp with a group of Trawniki guards

6 January- Otto Wächter becomes governor of Distrikt Galizien

February- Heinrich Himmler orders construction of the Durchgangstrasse IV highway which would be built largely with Jewish slave labor from Galicia

17 March- March Aktion begins; First transport of Lviv Jews murdered in Bełżec; Bełżec camp opens.

May- Zwangsarbeitslager-Lemberg (ZAL-L) under Willhaus operational

5 June- Kurt May visit to Lviv and DAW-L

18 June- Bełżec temporarily closed for upgrades to the gas chambers

Late June- Blitz Aktion in the ghetto targeting elderly and those incapable of work

7 July- Bełżec reopens for operation

10 August- Great Aktion begins in Lviv ghetto which would result in the murder of ca. 50,000 Lviv Jews.

17 August- Heinrich Himmler arrives in Lviv and tours Janowska camp.

18 November- W & R Aktion in the Lviv ghetto targets Jews without proper work permits deported to Bełżec via Janowska

Mid-December- Killing operations cease at Bełżec.

1943

5-7 January- Ghetto Aktion sends ca. 15,000 Lviv Jews to be killed in Sobibor and/or Janowska

February- Jürgen Stroop becomes SS and Police Leader for Lviv

February- Women's section established in ZAL-L

March- Schwarz Aktion murders ca. 3,000 Jews in Janowska

Late May- Final liquidation of the Lviv ghetto; ca. 12,000 murdered in the Janowska Camp

30 June- Katzmann delivers his Katzmann Report noting the murder of 434,329 Jews and declaring Distrikt Galizien “Judenfrei” (free of Jews)

25 October- Partial liquidation of the Janowska camp

7 November- Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of remaining camps and ghettos in the General Government.

19 November- Revolt by prisoners in the camp and in the Sonderkommando 1005

1944

13 January- the ZAL-L officially becomes a subcamp of the Majdanek camp

19 July- Janowska camp evacuated

27 July- Lviv liberated by the Soviet Red Army

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