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Anne Frank's BIrth
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Adam Czeriakow "the Chairman" is born
ACTUAL BIRTHDAY- NOVEMBER 30, 1880He had a good education and became industrial engineer. Polish resistance crumbled, and on September 28, 1939, German troops marched into Warsaw. As soon as the occupational authorities set up an office, Adam went to them and volunteered to become chairman of the Jewish community. -
Hitler comes to power
On 30 January 1933 Hindenburg made Hitler Chancellor. He thought he could control Hitler – how wrong he was. In the end, Hitler did not TAKE power at all – he was given it. -
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Jews lose their German citizenship
By the time Nazi forces invaded Poland, German Jews had already suffered terribly under Hitler's rule. They had lost their jobs, their homes, and their business. In November 1935, they lost their German citizenship. -
Kristallnacht
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. -
Germany invades Poland
The action by Germany that began World War II in 1939. Germany invaded Poland only days after signing the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, under which the Soviet Union agreed not to defend Poland from the east if Germany attacked it from the west. -
German troops march into Warsaw
As soon as the occupationnal authorities set up an office, Adam Czerniakow went to them and volunteered to become chairman of the Jewish community. -
Judenrat is established
Less thana week after the fall of Warsaw, the German military government established a "Judenrat", or Jewish council to carry out their orders in the Jewish community. -
SS soldiers "Schutzstaffel" attack Judenrat members
On November 4, 1940, the SS stromed into the Judenrat building and attacked several members of the Judenrat, including Adam Czerniakow. -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Nazi execute 51 Jews
When the Germans learned that underground literature was circuling through the ghetto, they took immediate action.
The Nazis executed fifty-one jews for pamphleteering and other underground activities. -
The Franks go into hiding
The hiding place is located in an empty section of the building owned by Otto Frank's company. While business continues, as usual, in the front part of the building, there are people hiding in the annex out back. -
Jewish police loaded thousands of people into boxcars
One by one, the trains disappeared and their human "cargo" was never seen again. -
The second concentration camp Treblinka
The Nazis opened a second camp, which they called Treblinka 2.
It served one purpose: killing human beings as quickly and efficiently as possible. -
Jewish Fighing Oprganization is established (ZOB)
In the midst of the first wave of deportations from Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp, the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB, Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa) is established. -
Nazis send Jewa into their deaths
Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the Nazis sent 265.000 Jews to theirs deaths. -
Germans begin another round of deportations
Thousand of Jews were sent to the gas chambers of Treblinka. -
Liquidation of Warsaw Ghetto begins
For almost a month the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for their lives. Many of them perished in the fires and smoke of the uprising. Others were murdered in the ghetto streets. The remainder were sent to Treblinka, Majdanek, and other camps in the Lublin area. -
Jewish partisans prepare for a batle
In the city of Warsaw, Poland, in April 1943, about two hundred Jewish partisansprepared for a battle they could never hope to win. -
Enemy troops marched into the ghetto
Two thousand enemy troops marched into the ghetto in tight, military formation. They planned to "liquidate", or destroy, the ghetto in short order, as a birthday present for Hitler -
Ghetto destroyed, uprising ends
After a month of fighting, the Germans blow up the Great Synagogue in Warsaw, signaling the end of the uprising and the destruction of the ghetto. -
D-Day
The battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. -
The Franks are found
On 4 August 1944, everyone in the Secret Annex is arrested. Someone has betrayed them. They are deported first to the Westerbork transit camp, and then on to Auschwitz. Otto Frank is the only person from the Secret Annex to survive the camps. The others all die. The identity of their betrayer has never been established. -
Anne Frank dies
Anne and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
On this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich. -
The War in Europe ends (VE Day)
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine.
