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Night, During the Holocaust

  • Adolf Appointed

    Adolf Appointed

    Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi party took control of Germany's government. First concentration camp, Dachau, was made.
  • Nuremberg Race Laws

    Nuremberg Race Laws

    This law deprived Jews of German citizenship
  • Japan Invades

    Japan Invades

    Japan invades China proper, initiating the Pacific War. That became part of World War II.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    Night of the broken glass. They pogrom against Jews in Germany. The widespread destruction caused 91 lives.
  • Germany Invades

    Germany Invades

    Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II in Europe.
  • Star of David

    Star of David

    First ghetto made in Piotrokow, Poland. Jews in Poland were forced to wear armbands with the Star of David, which told if they were Jews.
  • Elie Wiesel

    Elie Wiesel

    Elie Wiesel and his family became residents of HUngary.
  • Auschwitz

    Auschwitz

    Auschwitz II began.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    The US enters World War II after Germay's Axis powers, Japan, attacks Pearl Harbor. The first killing centers in Nazi-occupied Poland begins operations. Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel begin studying the Kabbalah.
  • Final Solution

    Final Solution

    Nazi Party and SS agencies made " the Final Solution"- a plan to murder the European Jews.
  • Warsaw Ghetto Rises Uo

    Warsaw Ghetto Rises Uo

    Jews rise up against oppressors. By end of year, Germans and the Axis Powers killed more than 4 million European Jews.
  • Elie Wiesel Deported to Auschwitz

    Elie Wiesel Deported to Auschwitz

    !5 when deported by the Hungarian gendarmarie and the German SS police. His mother and sister perished; his two older sisters survived.
  • Anne Frank

    Anne Frank

    Anne Frank's family is arrested by German occupations.
  • Liberation

    Liberation

    Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.
  • Surrenders

    Surrenders

    Us troops liberate Buchenwald.
  • Surrenders

    Surrenders

    Germany surrenders World War II in Europe ends on May 8
  • Pacific War Ends

    Pacific War Ends

    Japan surrenders afetr Us drops atomic bombs on HIroshina and Nagasaki.