Timeline: Daniel's Experiences During the Holocaust

Mar 30, 1927

Daniel born Frankfurt, Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Mar 30, 1933

Uncle Peter tells Daniel about Hitler

Germany's mistreatment of the Jews is getting worse and Daniel's family discusses leaving Germany.

Apr 2, 1933

Jewish shops boycotted

Daniel learns that all shops owned by Jews in Germany were being boycotted.

Sep 1, 1936

Daniel stops going to public school because Jewish children are being mistreated

Mr. Schneider, Daniel's teacher blamaed him for fights and said he was a natural troublemaker because he was a Jew. Daniel begins to attend a school for all Jewish student where Uncle Peter is his teacher.

Jun 15, 1938

Uncle Peter arrested

Uncle Peter is arrested and sent to Dacheau concentration camp because of a parking ticket he received two years earlier.
Daniel and his younger sister Erika see a newsreel that portrayed Jews in an unfavorable way. This caused them both to have nightmares.

Jul 23, 1938

Daniel receives his identification card

The identification card is stamped with a J to show he was Jewish. It had to be carried at all times and if it wasn't you would be arrested.

Nov 10, 1938

Kristallnacht "Night of Broken Glass"

The windows in the family hardware store were smashed and the store was looted. All night long Daniel heard the sound of broken glass of synogogues, Jewish stores, homes,and prayer halls. Daniel's father told him the events of the night started in Paris when a young Polish Jew shot a German official and now the Jews needed to be taught a lesson.

Sep 1, 1939

Daniel has to wear a yellow star on the outside of his clothing

The yellow star showed that Daniel was Jewish and if he did not wear it he would be killed.

Sep 15, 1939

Oma Mariam gives Daniel a Hitler Youth uniform

The uniform was given to him to keep him safe and make him feel free. He could now go places that he would not have been allowed to go.

Apr 20, 1940

Oma Mariam commits suicide

Oma Mariam left a note saying that she feard for what was ahead and she did not want to suffer or see her family suffer.

Jun 16, 1940

The family receives Uncle Peter's ashes who was killed after being in the concentration camp

Oct 18, 1941

Daniel and his family are deported

Daniel and his family are sent to Lodz, a ghetto in Poland. The Nazi's took over their home and all their belongings. The ghetto had over 230,000 Jews living in the poorest, dirtiest area of the city. People starved and froze to death, including Georg, Daniel's cousin and Aunt Anna.

Feb 9, 1942

Daniel's family buys a radio

Radios were illegal but Daniel's father traded a box of noodles for the radio. The radio allowed them to listen to the news in secret. If they were caught with the radiothe family would be shot.

Sep 13, 1942

Auntie Leah, Gertrude and Bridget were shot

Young children and old people who could not work were to be sent away. Erika and Fredrich were hidden in a cupboard but when the Nazi's tried to take Gertrude and Bridget, Auntie Leah wouldn't let them go so they were all shot.

Jun 10, 1944

Daniel and his family are transported from Lodz to the Aushwitz concentration camp

Oct 16, 1944

Daniel and his father were sent to Buchenwald, a camp within Auschwitz

Daniel and his father are separated from his mother and Erika. They believe they both were killed in the gas chambers. Daniel and his father were in a barracks with 800 men. At 4:30 am they were made to stand out in the freezing cold to be counted and were given only watery soup to eat.