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In March 1933, Adolf Hitler addressed the first session of the German Parliament (Reichstag) following his appointment as chancellor
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The laws prohibited marriage and sexual relation-ship between Jews and non-Jews
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On the night of of November 9-10, the Nazi regime unleashed orchestrated anti-Jewish violence across greater Germany
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Sections of Warsaw lay in ruins following the invasion and conquest of Poland by the German military begun in September 1939 that propelled Europe into World War II
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In November 1940, German authorities sealed the Warsaw ghetto, severally restricting supplies for the more than 300,000 Jews living there.
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About a quarter of all Jews who perished who perished in the Holocaust were by SS mobile killing squads and police battalions following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941
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Between 1942 and 1944, trains carrying Jews from German-controlled Europe rolled into one of the six killing centers located along rail lines in occupied Poland.
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In 1939, Jewish activists in Warsaw established a secret archive to document Jewish life and death in the ghetto and the extreme conditions of German occupation. But in 1942-943, they buried the archive in metal containers such as milk cans, to preserve a record of Nazi crimes for future generations
