Biggs----Holocaust

End of WWI

Nov 11, 1918

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-i-ends

Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party

Feb 27, 1925

Elie Wiesel born

Sep 30, 1928

US stock market crashes

Oct 1, 1929

Hitler became chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-is-named-chancellor-of-germany

1st Concentration near Berlin

Mar 12, 1933

Olympics in Berlin

Period: Aug 1, 1936 to Aug 16, 1936

Kristallnacht

Period: Nov 9, 1938 to Nov 10, 1938

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005201

Nazis begin euthanasia

Aug 18, 1939

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005200

War declared on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

Nazis invade the Netherlands

May 10, 1940

Britain bomb Berlin

Period: Aug 25, 1940 to Aug 28, 1940

Nazis invade northern Africa

Feb 19, 1941

Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars

Sep 1, 1941

https://newspapers.ushmm.org/events/german-government-forces-jews-to-wear-yellow-stars

Gas chambers used for first time at uschwitz

Sep 3, 1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/attack-pearl-harbor-1941

Elie & family are deported

1944

Allied Forces D-Day invasion

Jun 6, 1944

Elie & father transferred to Buchenwald

Jan 1, 1945

Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz

Jan 27, 1945

Elie's father dies

Jan 28, 1945

Elie liberated from Buchenwald

Apr 11, 1945

US drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima

US drops nuclear bomb on Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-nagasaki

State of Israel created

May 14, 1948