Sheltann Night By swaller20 Nov 11, 1918 End of WWI Feb 27, 1925 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Elie Weisel born Oct 1, 1929 US stock market crashes Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Mar 12, 1933 First concentration camp opened near Berlin Aug 1, 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht Aug 18, 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 Aug 25, 1940 Nazis bomb Berlin Feb 19, 1941 Nazis invade northern Africa May 14, 1941 State of Israel created Sep 1, 1941 Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars Sep 3, 1941 Gas Chambers used for first time at Aushwitz 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 transferred to Buchenwald Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Aushwitz Jan 28, 1945 Eli's father dies in Buchenwald Apr 11, 1945 Elie liberated from Bunchenwald Aug 6, 1945 USA drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 USA drops nuclear bomb on Nagasaki
