Night- Layni Branson By lbranson Nov 11, 1918 End of WWI 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel born Oct 20, 1929 US stock market crashes Jan 30, 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany Mar 12, 1933 1st concentration opened near Berlin Aug 1, 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht Sep 3, 1939 Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany Oct 1, 1939 Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled May 10, 1940 Nazis invade the Netherlands Sep 1, 1941 Nazis order Jews to wear yellow Sep 3, 1941 Gas chambers used for the first time at Auschwitz Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pear Harbor Nov 8, 1942 Nazis invade northern Africs May 1, 1944 Elie and his family are deported Jun 6, 1944 Allies forces D-Day invasion Jan 1, 1945 Eli and father transferred to Buchenwald Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Jan 28, 1945 Eli's father dies in Buchenwald Apr 11, 1945 Elie liberated from Buchenwald Aug 6, 1945 USA drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki May 14, 1948 State of Israel created
