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  • Birth of Dora Gerson

    She was born in Berlin.

  • Dora the actress

    Her first role came in 1920 with the silent film adaptation of the novel Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses.

  • Dora as a wife

    She got married with the director Veit Harlan.

  • End of Dora´s career.

    From 1933, with the rise to power of the Nazis, Gerson stopped appearing publicly due to her Jewish condition. At that time he began recording Yiddish cabaret songs that became very popular among European Jewish communities, such as Der Rebe Hot Geheysn Freylekh Zayn or Vorbei.

  • 30th JANUARY 1933

    Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany (30th JANUARY 1933).

  • 28th FEBRUARY 1933

    Reichstag Fire Decree: declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties.

  • 23th MARCH 1933

    Enabling Act.

  • 1st APRIL 1933

    1st APRIL 1933
    First boycotts of Jewish businesses.

  • 7th APRIL 1933

    Approval of Civil Service Law: it removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from civil service positions and government jobs.

  • 25th APRIL 1933

    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.

  • 14th JULY 1933

    Approval of the Sterilization Law: it allowed the Government to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental disabilities not to have children.

  • 4th OCTOBER 1933

    Approval of the Press Censorship Law.

  • 2nd AUGUST 1934

    2nd AUGUST 1934
    Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”.

  • 16th MARCH 1935

    Approval of the mandatory military service.

  • 1st APRIL 1935

    Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization.

  • 28th JUNE 1935

    Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”, being excluded of being accounted as German population.

  • 15th SEPTEMBER 1935

    approval of the Laws of Nuremberg.

  • Scape to Netherland

    In 1936 he had to flee to the Netherlands. He lived there until after the Wehrmacht invasion.

  • 12th MARCH 1938

    Annexation of Austria.

  • 17th AUGUST 1938

    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.

  • 29th SEPTEMBER 1938

    Sudetenland, ceded to Germany.

  • 28th OCTOBER 1938

    Polish Jews deported from Germany.

  • 9-10th NOVEMBER 1938

    Kristallnacht.

  • 15th MARCH 1939

    Germany annexed Czechoslovakia.

  • 23th AUGUST 1939

    German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression

  • 1st SEPTEMBER 1939

    Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”. It would cause 250,000 deaths.

  • 1st SEPTEMBER 1939

    Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II.

  • 9th APRIL 1940

    Germany invaded Norway and Denmark

  • 10th MAY 1940

    Germany invaded Western Europe

  • 10th JUNE 1940

    Italy declared war on Britain and France.

  • 14th JUNE 1940

    14th JUNE 1940
    First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.

  • 27th SEPTEMBER 1940

    Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definteliy formed.

  • 6th APRIL 1941

    Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece.

  • 22nd JUNE 1941

    Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

  • 1st SEPTEMBER 1941

    Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population.

  • 7th DECEMBER 1941

    Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. USA ented into the World War II.

  • 8th DECEMBER 1941

    Mass murder began at Chelmno, the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.

  • 20th JANUARY 1942

    Wannsee Conference: approval of mass murder of Jews (“Final Solution”).

  • 17th MARCH 1942

    : Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”, name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.

  • 8th NOVEMBER 1942

    Allied forces invaded North Africa.

  • 17th DECEMBER 1942

    Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder.

  • 2nd FEBRUARY 1943

    German defeat at Stalingrad.

  • Dead and deported Dora

    In February 1943 she was deported to Auschwitz along with her second husband, Max Sluizer, and their two children. The four were murdered on February 14, 1943.1​2​

  • 26th FEBRYARY 1943

    first transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz.

  • 19th APRIL 1943

    Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise.

  • 8th SEPTEMBER 1943

    Surrender of Italy.

  • 19th MARCH 1944

    Germany occupied Hungary.

  • 6th JUNE 1944

    Beginning of the Normandy landings.

  • 9-10th JULY 1943

    Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces.

  • 7th MAY 1945

    7th MAY 1945
    Surrender of Germany. End of the World War II in Europe.

  • 27th JANUARY 1945

    Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops.

  • 11th APRIL 1945

    Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops.