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Reich stag Speech
Adolf Hitler took a speech on how the out break of war would would end European and Jewry. -
St. Louis Sets Sail
On May 13 1939 the German transatlantic liner St. Louis sets sail from Hamburg Germany for Havana Cuba. on bored the ship over 900 passengers most were Jews running from Nazi Germany. they planned to stay in Cuba but the U.S. sent them back. -
German Invasion of Poland
Nazi invades Poland and starts WWII. the German army broke throw the def fences of Poland.They expelled hundreds of thousands of Poles from their homes and settled more than 500,000 ethnic Germans in their place. -
Auschwitz Camp
The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps, all of which deployed incarcerated prisoners at forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. -
Samuel Soltz’s Visa
The back of Samuel Schultz's visa bears witness to the vast array of bureaucratic stamps and visas needed to emigrate from Europe in 1940–41. The stamp in the top left, dated August 21, 1940, represents a visa from the Japanese consul to Lithuania, Chiune Surcharge. Surcharge issued thousands of visas to enable Jews to escape. -
Warsaw Ghetto Sealed
German authorities order the Warsaw ghetto in the to be sealed. It is the largest ghetto in both area and population. Confirming more than 350,000 Jews. In an area of about 1.3 square miles, or 2.4 percent of the city's total area. -
Explosion of the SS Patria
Twenty-year-old Egon Weiss escaped to Palestine in November 1940 and survived the explosion of the refugee ship Patria. He was interned at the Athlit detainee camp. While in Palestine, Weiss kept a diary describing his voyage on the Milos. -
Krakow Ghetto Established
From March 3–20, 1941, German authorities announce, establish, and seal a ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Between 15,000 and 20,000 Jews are forced to live within the ghetto boundaries. Which are enclosed by barbed-wire fences and, in places, by a stone wall. -
Auschwitz Report
Between June 18 and 22, 1944, the Auschwitz Report, written by two Slovak Jewish prisoners who escaped from Auschwitz on April 7, 1944. Composed a report in Slovak by the end of April, goes public worldwide through media channels in Switzerland. In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz and wrote a report providing some of the first reliable eyewitness accounts of the camp. -
Liberation of Dachau
The 42nd and 45th Infantry Divisions and the 20th Armored Division of the US Army liberate approximately 32,000 prisoners at Dachau.On April 26, 1945, as American forces approached, there were 67,665 registered prisoners in Dachau and its sub-camps; more than half of this number were in the main camp. these, 43,350 were categorized as political prisoners, while 22,100 were Jews.
