Night By knobby17 Nov 11, 1918 End of WWI Jul 1, 1921 Adolf becomes leader of Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Elie Wesiel is born Oct 1, 1929 US Stock Market crashes Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Mar 22, 1933 1st concentration camp opened near Berlin Period: Aug 1, 1936 to Aug 16, 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany Period: Nov 9, 1938 to Nov 10, 1938 kristallnacht Sep 3, 1939 Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declared war on Germany Oct 1, 1939 Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled May 10, 1940 Nazis invade Netherlands Jun 7, 1940 Nazis bomb Berlin Period: Jun 10, 1940 to May 13, 1943 Nazis invade northern Africa Sep 3, 1941 gas chambers used for the first time in Auschwitz Sep 9, 1941 Nazis ordered Jews to wear yellow stars Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs pearl harbor May 1, 1944 Elie and his family are deported Jun 6, 1944 Allied forces d-day invasion Jan 1, 1945 Eli and his father are 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 Aug 6, 1945 US drops a bomb on Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 US drops a bomb on Nagasaki May 14, 1948 Israel becomes a state
