Lanham Night By kelseylanham Nov 11, 1918 End of WW1 Jul 11, 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel born Oct 24, 1929 US Stock Market crashes Jan 30, 1933 Hitler become chancellor of Germany Mar 1, 1933 1st concentration opened near Berlin Aug 1, 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany Aug 18, 1938 Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled Sep 11, 1938 Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht (the night of the broken glass) Sep 1, 1939 Beginning of WW2 Sep 3, 1939 Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany May 10, 1940 Nazis invade the Netherlands (Holland) Aug 1, 1941 Gas chambers used for first time at Auschwits Nov 27, 1941 Nazis invade northern Africa Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Jan 1, 1944 Elie & his family are deported Jun 6, 1944 Allied Forces D-Day invasion Aug 12, 1944 Elie & father transferred to Buchenwald Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Jan 28, 1945 Elie’s father dies in Buchenwald Apr 11, 1945 Elie liberated from Buchenwald Apr 21, 1945 Allies bomb Berlin Aug 9, 1945 USA drops nuclear bomb on Nagasaki Aug 9, 1945 USA drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima Sep 2, 1945 World War 2 Ended May 14, 1948 State of Israel created
