January 20, 1942:
The Wannsee Conference in Berlin. Heydrich outlined The Final Solution: the plan to murder Europe's Jews, all 11 million of them.

March 17, 1942:
Extermination began in the deathcamp Belzec in occupied Poland. By the end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered.

March 30, 1942:
First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In May, 1942:
Extermination began in the deathcamp Sobibor in occupied Poland. Within a year 250,000 Jews murdered.

May 27, 1942:

June 30, 1942:
New York Times reported that over 1,000,000 Jews had already been killed by the Nazis.

July 10, 1942:
The first medical experiments began at Auschwitz.

July 14, 1942:
Deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau began.

July 22, 1942:
Treblinka extermination camp opened in occupied Poland, east of Warsaw.

September 26, 1942:
SS began cashing in valuables of Jews from Auschwitz.

October 5, 1942:
All Jews in concentration camps in Germany to be sent to Auschwitz.

October 25, 1942:
Jews from Norway to be deported to Auschwitz.

In November, 1942:
The mass killing of 170,000 Jews in the area of Bialystok.

December 28, 1942:
Sterilization experiments on women at Birkenau began.