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Night Timeline

By cgrig2019

  • End of WW1

    End of WW1

  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party

    Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party

  • Elie Wiesel is born

    Elie Wiesel is born

  • US stock market crashes

    US stock market crashes

  • Hitler Became Chancellor in Germany

    Hitler Became Chancellor in Germany

  • 1st concentration camp opened near Berlin

    1st concentration camp opened near Berlin

  • Olympics Held in Berlin

    Olympics Held in Berlin

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

  • Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled

    Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled

  • Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany

    Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany

  • Nazis invade the Netherlands (Holland)

    Nazis invade the Netherlands (Holland)

  • Nazis invade northern Africa

    Nazis invade northern Africa

  • Gas chambers used for first time at Auschwitz

    Gas chambers used for first time at Auschwitz

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

  • Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars

    Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars

  • Elie & his family are deported

    Elie & his family are deported

  • Allied Forces D-Day invasion

    Allied Forces D-Day invasion

  • Eli and his father were transferred to Buchenwald

  • Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz

    Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz

  • Eli’s father dies in Buchenwald

    Eli’s father dies in Buchenwald

  • Eli liberated from Buchenwald

    Eli liberated from Buchenwald

  • Nazis bomb Berlin

    Nazis bomb Berlin

  • USA drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima

    USA drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima

  • USA drops nuclear bomb in Nagasaki

    USA drops nuclear bomb in Nagasaki