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Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi party took control of Germany's government. First concentration camp, Dachau, was made.
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This law deprived Jews of German citizenship
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Japan invades China proper, initiating the Pacific War. That became part of World War II.
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Night of the broken glass. They pogrom against Jews in Germany. The widespread destruction caused 91 lives.
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Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II in Europe.
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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.
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Elie Wiesel and his family became residents of HUngary.
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Auschwitz II began.
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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.
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Nazi Party and SS agencies made " the Final Solution"- a plan to murder the European Jews.
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Jews rise up against oppressors. By end of year, Germans and the Axis Powers killed more than 4 million European Jews.
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!5 when deported by the Hungarian gendarmarie and the German SS police. His mother and sister perished; his two older sisters survived.
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Anne Frank's family is arrested by German occupations.
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.
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Us troops liberate Buchenwald.
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Germany surrenders World War II in Europe ends on May 8
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Japan surrenders afetr Us drops atomic bombs on HIroshina and Nagasaki.