Night, During the Holocaust

Adolf Appointed

Jan 1, 1933

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

Jan 1, 1935

This law deprived Jews of German citizenship

Japan Invades

Jan 1, 1937

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

Kristallnacht

Nov 1, 1938

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

Germany Invades

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II in Europe.

Star of David

Nov 1, 1939

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

Jan 1, 1940

Elie Wiesel and his family became residents of HUngary.

Auschwitz

Jun 1, 1941

Auschwitz II began.

Pearl Harbor

Dec 8, 1941

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

Jan 1, 1942

Nazi Party and SS agencies made " the Final Solution"- a plan to murder the European Jews.

Warsaw Ghetto Rises Uo

Jan 1, 1943

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

May 1, 1944

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

Anne Frank

Jun 22, 1944

Anne Frank's family is arrested by German occupations.

Liberation

Jan 27, 1945

Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.

Surrenders

Apr 11, 1945

Us troops liberate Buchenwald.

Surrenders

May 7, 1945

Germany surrenders World War II in Europe ends on May 8

Pacific War Ends

Sep 2, 1945

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