WWII

By luciamegias

  • Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

  • Reichstag Fire Decree: declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties

  • Dachau Concentration Camp opened

  • Enabling Act

  • first boycotts of Jewish businesses

  • Approval of Civil Service Law

    it removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from civil service positions and government jobs.

  • Approval of the Education Law

    it stated that Jewish students could not be more than 5% of the student population of any public school or university, being forced to leave public schools.

  • Approval of the Sterilization Law

    it allowed the Government to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental disabilities not to have children.

  • Approval of the Press Censorship Law.

  • Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”

  • Approval of the mandatory military service

  • Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization

  • Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”

    were excluded of being accounted as German population.

  • approval of the Laws of Nuremberg

  • Annexation of Austria

  • Jewish Name Law

    it forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names “Israel” for men and “Sara” for women.

  • Kristallnacht

    9-10th November

  • Sudetenland, ceded to Germany

  • Polish Jews deported from Germany

  • Alessandra Bucci was born

    She was half-Jewish because her mum was Jewish

  • Germany annexed Czechoslovakia

  • German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression

  • Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”

    It would cause 250,000 deaths.

  • Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II

  • Germany invaded Norway and Denmark

  • Germany invaded Western Europe

  • Italy declared war on Britain and France

  • First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz

  • Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definteliy formed.

  • Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Germany invaded the Soviet Union

  • Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population

  • Pearl Harbor attack by Japan

    USA ented into the World War II.

  • Mass murder began at Chelmno

    the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder

  • Wannsee Conference

    approval of mass murder of Jews (“Final Solution”)

  • Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”

    name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.

  • Allied forces invaded North Africa

  • Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder

  • Nazi Germany invaded northern Italy and began to arrest and deport Jews

  • Mussolini was overthrown and arrested

  • German defeat at Stalingrad

  • first transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz

  • Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise

  • Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces

    9-10th July

  • Surrender of Italy

  • Germany occupied Hungary

  • Period: to

    Alessandra and her family were imprisioned first at Risiera di San Sabba camp in Trieste and then to Auschwitz

    Nonna was sent to the gas chambers.
    She and her sister looked like twins and Dr. Josef Mengele (who performed experiments with twins) sent them to a children´s barracks and even allowed to bring Sergio

  • Alessandra and her family were arrested

    Alessandra, Mira (her mum), Tatiana (her two years older sister), her grandmother Nonna Rosa, aunt Gisela and her cousin Sergio.

  • Beginning of the Normandy landings

  • The sisters were liberated from Auschwitz

  • Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops

  • Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops

  • Surrender of Germany

    End of the World War II in Europe

  • Alessandra´s parents discovered their daughters had survived Auschwitz

  • Alessandra´s family reunited