Night Timeline By cgrig2019 Nov 11, 1918 End of WW1 Jul 29, 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel is born Oct 29, 1929 US stock market crashes Jan 30, 1933 Hitler Became Chancellor in Germany Mar 1, 1933 1st concentration camp opened near Berlin Aug 1, 1936 Olympics Held in Berlin Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht Jul 24, 1939 Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled Sep 3, 1939 Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany May 10, 1940 Nazis invade the Netherlands (Holland) Jun 10, 1940 Nazis invade northern Africa Aug 29, 1941 Gas chambers used for first time at Auschwitz Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor May 29, 1942 Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars May 1, 1944 Elie & his family are deported Jun 6, 1944 Allied Forces D-Day invasion Jan 26, 1945 Eli and his father were transferred to Buchenwald Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Jan 28, 1945 Eli’s father dies in Buchenwald Apr 11, 1945 Eli liberated from Buchenwald Jun 3, 1945 Nazis bomb Berlin Aug 6, 1945 USA drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 USA drops nuclear bomb in Nagasaki
