Night Timeline By grace_correll Nov 11, 1918 End of WW1 Jul 18, 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Eli Wiesel is born Oct 24, 1929 US stock market crashes Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Mar 12, 1933 First Concentration opened near Berlin Aug 1, 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany Nov 10, 1938 Kristallnacht Sep 3, 1939 Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany Sep 15, 1939 Nazis invade Netherlands (Holland) Oct 13, 1939 Nazis began euthanasia in sick and disable Jun 7, 1940 Allies bomb Berlin Feb 1, 1941 Nazis invade Northern Africa Aug 28, 1941 Gas chambers used for the first time at Auschwitz Sep 17, 1941 Nazis ordered Jews to wear yellow stars Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor May 16, 1944 Eli and his family are deported Jun 6, 1944 Allied forces D-Day invasion Jan 14, 1945 Eli and his father transferred to Buchenwald Jan 18, 1945 Eli is liberated from Buchenwald Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Jan 28, 1945 Elie's Father Dies Buchenwald Aug 6, 1945 USA drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 USA drops nuclear bomb on Nagasaki May 14, 1948 State of Israel created
