Biggs----Holocaust By kbiggs20 Nov 11, 1918 End of WWI https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-i-ends Feb 27, 1925 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel born Oct 1, 1929 US stock market crashes Jan 30, 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-is-named-chancellor-of-germany Mar 12, 1933 1st Concentration near Berlin Period: Aug 1, 1936 to Aug 16, 1936 Olympics in Berlin Period: Nov 9, 1938 to Nov 10, 1938 Kristallnacht https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005201 Aug 18, 1939 Nazis begin euthanasia https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005200 Sep 3, 1939 War declared on Germany May 10, 1940 Nazis invade the Netherlands Period: Aug 25, 1940 to Aug 28, 1940 Britain bomb Berlin Feb 19, 1941 Nazis invade northern Africa Sep 1, 1941 Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars https://newspapers.ushmm.org/events/german-government-forces-jews-to-wear-yellow-stars Sep 3, 1941 Gas chambers used for first time at uschwitz Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/attack-pearl-harbor-1941 1944 Elie & family are deported Jun 6, 1944 Allied Forces D-Day invasion Jan 1, 1945 Elie & father transferred to Buchenwald Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Jan 28, 1945 Elie's father dies Apr 11, 1945 Elie liberated from Buchenwald Aug 6, 1945 US drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 US drops nuclear bomb on Nagasaki https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-nagasaki May 14, 1948 State of Israel created
