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Margaret starts her diary
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Soviet-German Non-aggression Pact signed.
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Hitler invades Poland
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Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.
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the Fryms are taken in by the Sojkas
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bedzin is invaded by German troops
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the germans invade opoczno
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the fryms are found with the sojkas
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the Sojkas And Fryms are found and taken to jail
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Soviet troops invade Poland from the east
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Heydrich issues instructions to SS Einsatzgruppen (special action squads) in Poland regarding treatment of Jews, stating they are to be gathered into ghettos near railroads for the future "final goal." He also orders a census and the establishment of Jew
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jews are forced to hand in all electronics and have restricted rations
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jews get smaller clothes rations than germans
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German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets.
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Poland surrenders to Germany
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Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. Over two million Jews reside in Nazi controlled areas, leaving 1.3 million in the Soviet area.
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Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. Over two million Jews reside in Nazi controlled areas, leaving 1.3 million in the Soviet area.
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Jews living in Austria and Czechoslovakia were sent to Poland
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Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60.
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the Fryms are taken out of jail, and are put to work making clothes for nazi soldiers
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Feiga and Louis are put in a childrens home
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Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.
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the first polish ghetto is established
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The first Polish ghetto is established.
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the Sojkas are let out of jail
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Fryms are let out of jail
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the fryms are taken to Labor camps to make clothes for german soldiers
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Louis is taken to a childrens home and is never heard from again
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Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.
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First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.
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February 12, 1940 - First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.
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The Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 Jews locked inside.
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Rudolf Höss is chosen to be kommandant of Auschwitz.
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164,000 polish jews are concealed into the Lodz ghetto.
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the Fryms are put into the Bedzin ghetto
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Vichy France passes its own version of the Nuremberg Laws.
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.
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Gypsy and African-German children are expelled from public schools.
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Soviet prisoners of war and Polish prisoners are killed in Nazi test of gas chambers at Auschwitz in occupied Poland.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
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The first 'Death Camp' was opened at Chelmno.
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The Chelmno death camp opens near Lódz, Poland and the first gassing of victims in mobile gas vans occurs.
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Germany declares war on the United States.
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Nazi "extermination" camps located in occupied Poland at Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek-Lublin begins mass murder of Jews in gas chambers.
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The German government closes all Jewish schools.
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Treblinka death camp opens.
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Miriam dies of starvation
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All Jews in concentration camps in Germany are sent to death camp at Auschwitz.
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A special internment camp for non-Jewish Polish youth is opened in Lódz.
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The Nazis order all of the ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union destroyed.
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Abram dies of Tyhphoid Fever
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the Bedzin Ghetto is liquidated and the Fryms are sent to Auschwitz
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Margaret loses her diary on the transportation bus
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The Nazis begin deportation of Hungarian Jews. Over 430,000 Jews are sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau where most are gassed.
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German officers fail and are caught in an attempt to assassinate Hitler.
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The prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau rebel and blow up one crematorium.
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Nazis empty Auschwitz and start prisoners on "death marches" to Germany.
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The Soviet army liberates Auschwitz.
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Faced with impending defeat, Hitler committed suicide
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Germany surrendered and the war in Europe was over
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Germany surrenders and war in Europe is ended.
