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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Nazis burn Jewish shops
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The Gestapo were started.
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Jewish immigrants from Poland have their German citizenship taken.
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Jews are not allowed to participate in many professions.
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Soviet troops invade Poland.
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Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between the two of them, where over two million Jews lived in Nazi-controlled areas.
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Nazis create a new concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.
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A mass killing of Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau occurs
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Hannah from 'The Devil's Arithmetic' is taken to Poland and then taken a concentration camp.
(Dates are loosely guessed within the year of 1942)