The Holocaust at Night By BrittandMack Nov 11, 1918 End of WW1 Jul 11, 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel born Oct 24, 1929 US Stock Market crashes Jan 30, 1933 Hitler become chancellor of Germany Aug 1, 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht Mar 22, 1939 1st concentration opened near Berlin Sep 1, 1939 Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany Oct 1, 1939 Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled May 10, 1940 Nazis invade the Netherlands (Holland) Jun 7, 1940 Allies bomb Berlin Jun 10, 1940 Nazis invade northern Africa Aug 1, 1941 Gas chambers used for first time at Auschwitz Sep 1, 1941 Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor May 17, 1944 Elie & his family are deported Jun 6, 1944 Allied Forces D-Day invasion Jan 1, 1945 Eli & father transferred to Buchenwald Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Jan 28, 1945 Elie’s father dies in Buchenwald Apr 11, 1945 Eli liberated from 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