Historical timeline 1933-1945

  • Birth of Fanny Orenbach Aizenberg

  • 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”

  • Approval of the Laws of Nuremberg

  • Annexation of Austria

  • Fanny married Jacques Aizenberg

  • 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.
  • Sudetenland, ceded to Germany

  • Polish Jews deported from Germany

  • Kristallnacht

  • Germany annexed Czechoslovakia

  • German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression

  • Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II

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

  • Germany invaded Norway and Denmark

  • Germany invaded Western Europe

  • Jaques (Funny´s husband) join the military

  • First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz

  • Italy declared war on Britain and France

  • 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.
  • Fanny, Josiane and Rivke went into hiding

    Josiane was Fanny´s daugther and Rivke was Fanny´s mother.
  • Allied forces invaded North Africa

  • Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder

  • Fanny and her mother were discovered by the Gestapo

  • They were taken to Malines

    A transit camp where they pass 10 days
  • Fanny and her mother were reported to Auschwitz

    They were placed in separated lines and Fanny never saw her mother again.
  • German defeat at Stalingrad

  • First transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz

  • Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise

  • Surrender of Germany

    End of the World War II in Europe.
  • Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces

  • Surrender of Italy

  • Germany occupied Hungary

  • Beginning of the Normandy landings

  • Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops

  • Fanny and more prisioners were sended on a forced march in frozen temperatures

  • Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops

  • Fanny and the survivors were liberated by the Soviet Red Army

  • She returned to Belgium where she reunited with Jacques and Josaine