WWII Timeline By tconn Aug 24, 1939 Vladek is called in to the polish army Sep 1, 1939 Start of the war Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 WWII Sep 9, 1939 Battle of the Atlantic begins Sep 27, 1939 Vladek is taken prisoner by Nazis Jun 10, 1940 Norway surrenders Jul 1, 1940 German U-boats attack merchant ships Apr 6, 1941 Germany invades Greece and Yugoslavia Aug 20, 1941 German siege of Leningrad begins Nov 13, 1941 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibralter by a U-boat Dec 7, 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor Dec 15, 1941 Jews of Sosnoweic Relocate to the Ghetto Sep 13, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad begins Mar 1, 1943 Auschwitz and Dachau start using their crematoria May 13, 1943 German and Italian troops surrender North Africa Jul 10, 1943 Operation Husky begins Allied landings in Sicily Oct 13, 1943 Italy declares war on Germany Mar 19, 1944 Hungary occupied by Germany May 1, 1944 Wiesel family arrives at Birkenall, Poland Jul 1, 1944 Elie and his father were sent to Auschwitz Jul 30, 1944 Vladek Arrives in Birkenau Nov 4, 1944 Surrender of Axis forces in Greece Dec 4, 1944 Valdeck and the others march from Auchwitz Jan 18, 1945 Elie and his father were sent to Auschwitz Jan 18, 1945 Russian forces liberated Auschwitz Jan 26, 1945 Japanese retreat to Chinese coast and Soviets liberate Auschwitz Feb 19, 1945 U.S. starts landing on Iwo Jima May 8, 1945 V.E. day Aug 6, 1945 The A bomb Little Boy is dropped on Hiroshima Aug 15, 1945 V.J. day Sep 2, 1945 War ends
