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End of WWI
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Adolf becomes leader of Nazi party
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Elie Wesiel is born
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US Stock Market crashes
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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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1st concentration camp opened near Berlin
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Olympics held in Berlin, Germany
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kristallnacht
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Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declared war on Germany
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Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled
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Nazis invade Netherlands
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Nazis bomb Berlin
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Nazis invade northern Africa
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gas chambers used for the first time in Auschwitz
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Nazis ordered Jews to wear yellow stars
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Japan bombs pearl harbor
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Elie and his family are deported
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Allied forces d-day invasion
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Eli and his father are transferred to Buchenwald
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
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Eli's father dies in Buchenwald
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Eli liberated from Buchenwald
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US drops a bomb on Hiroshima
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US drops a bomb on Nagasaki
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Israel becomes a state