Nathan White Night By Nwhite10 Nov 11, 1918 End of WW1 Jul 1, 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel born September 30, 1928 Oct 29, 1929 US stock market crash Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Mar 12, 1933 1st concentration opened near Berlin Aug 1, 1936 Olympics held in Berlin Nov 9, 1938 Kritallnacht Sep 3, 1939 Britan, France, Autstrailia and New Zealand declare war on Germany Oct 1, 1939 Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled May 10, 1940 Nazis invade the Netherlands (holland) Sep 1, 1941 Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars Sep 3, 1941 gas chamber used for first time at Auschwitz Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Nov 8, 1942 Nazis invade northern Africa May 1, 1944 Elie & his family are deproted Jun 6, 1944 Allied forces D-Day invasion Jan 1, 1945 Elie wiesel and father transferred to Buchenwald Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Jan 28, 1945 Elis father dies in buchenwald Feb 3, 1945 Allies bomb Berlin Apr 11, 1945 Elie liberated from buchenwald Aug 6, 1945 USA drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 USA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki May 14, 1948 State of Israel created