Holocaust Timeline

Elie Wiesel is born

Sep 30, 1928

Elie Wiesel is the author of Night, and was born in Poland
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The first concentration camp Dachau is established

Jan 1, 1933

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Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

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Nazi's take control of German Government

Feb 3, 1933

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The Nuremberg Race Laws deprive Jews of German citizenship

Jan 1, 1935

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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by initiating a draft

Mar 1, 1935

A draft is when the Government puts names of every man between a certain age, and selects them at randomn to join the military

German Gestapo are granted more power than Government

Feb 1, 1936

A Gestapo is a type of German police

Japan invades China, starting what would become a significant part of WWII

Jan 1, 1937

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Kristallnacht occurs: widespread destruction of Jewish homes and stores

Jan 1, 1938

Sources- http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/kristallnacht/images/photos/photo01.jpg

Germany makes alliance with Austria republic

Mar 1, 1938

Germany makes alliance with Austria republic

Mar 1, 1938

Germany invades Poland, beginning war in Europe

Sep 1, 1939

The first Ghetto is established in Piotrkow Poland, under German control, Polish Jews are forced to wear yellow stars of David for Identification

Nov 1, 1939

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Elie Wiesel and his family become citizens of Hungary

Jan 1, 1940

Auschwitz death camp is developed

May 1, 1940

Auschwitz is where Elie Wiesel was imprisoned during the Holocaust
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Hungary, Slovakia and Romania join the Axis powers

Oct 1, 1940

Elie Wiesel meets Moishe the Beetle

Jan 1, 1941

Elie begins studying the Kabbalah

Jan 1, 1941

The Axis powers agree on final solution; to destroy all Jews.

Jan 1, 1942

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The Wannsee Conference held in Berlin, Germany assured the full cooperationof S.S., state, and Nazi parties to kill all Jews in Europe (The Final Solution)

Jan 15, 1942

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Moishe escapes the Gestapo to warn Jews in Sighet of the Death Camps

Nov 21, 1942

Warsaw Ghetto prisoners rise up to opressors

Jan 1, 1943

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Elie and his family are deported from their home

Mar 1, 1944

Germany occupies Hungary and 440,000 Hungarian Jews are sent to Auschwitz

Mar 1, 1944

Elie's convoy reaches Burkenau and is tattood A-7713

May 31, 1944

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Elie and his father arrive in Buchenwald

Jan 1, 1945

Sources- http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/BuchenwaldPhotos/BuchenwaldBlock56.jpg

Elie and his father are evacuated from Auschwitz.

Jan 1, 1945

Elie under goes surgery for his foot.

Jan 1, 1945

Elie's father dies

Jan 28, 1945

He dies of Dysentary
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Elie gets liberated by American troops at Buchenwald

Apr 11, 1945

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Elie publishes the english version of Night

Apr 12, 1960

Sources- http://media.theonion.com/images/articles/article/2204/Elie-Wiesel-Book_jpg_250x1000_q85.jpg