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End of WW1
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party
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Eli Wiesel is born
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US stock market crashes
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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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First Concentration opened near Berlin
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Olympics held in Berlin, Germany
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Kristallnacht
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Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany
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Nazis invade Netherlands (Holland)
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Nazis began euthanasia in sick and disable
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Allies bomb Berlin
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Nazis invade Northern Africa
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Gas chambers used for the first time at Auschwitz
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Nazis ordered Jews to wear yellow stars
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Eli and his family are deported
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Allied forces D-Day invasion
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Eli and his father transferred to Buchenwald
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Eli is liberated from Buchenwald
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
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Elie's Father Dies Buchenwald
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USA drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima
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USA drops nuclear bomb on Nagasaki
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State of Israel created
