Holocaust

The Holocaust

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    Past-Present

  • Adolf Hitler's birth date

    Adolf Hitler's birth date
    Adolf Hiter is born in Braunau am Inn, Austria. Son of Klara Hitler and Alois Hitler
  • Dr. Friedrich Pfeffer's birth date

    Dr. Friedrich Pfeffer's birth date
    Friedrich"Fritz" Pfeffer is born in Gissen, Germany. Son of Jeannette Hirsch-Pfeffer and Ignatz Pfeffer.
  • Otto Frank's birth date

    Otto Frank's birth date
    Otto Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany. Son of Alice Betty Stern and Michael frank
  • Hermann van Pels' birth date

    Hermann van Pels' birth date
    Hermann van Pels is born in Gehrde, Germany.
  • Edith Hollander-Frank's birth date

    Edith Hollander-Frank's birth date
    Edith Hollander is born, Daughter of Rosa Stern and Abraham Hollander. Later marries Otto Frank and becomes edith Frank.
  • Victor Kugler's birth date

    Victor Kugler's birth date
    Victor Kugler is born in Vrchlabi, Czech Republic.
  • Auguste van Pels' birth date

    Auguste van Pels' birth date
    Auguste van Pels is born in Buer, Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
  • Miep Gies' birth date

    Miep Gies' birth date
    Miep Gies is born in Vienna, Austria.
  • Jan Karski's birth date

    Jan Karski's birth date
    Jan Karski was born in Lodz, Poland. Later in life he became a "Holocaust Hero" by delivering eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the West and then he traveled to London and the U.S. to discuss the issue of the Holocaust.
  • Otto Frank marries Edith Hollander

    Otto Frank marries Edith Hollander
    Otto Frank marries Edith Hollander. Edith Hollander canges her last name to Edith Frank
  • Hermann van Pels marries Auguste Rottgen

    Hermann van Pels marries Auguste (Gusti) Rottgen. She changes her last name to van Pels
  • Margot Frank's birth date

    Margot Frank's birth date
    Margot Frank is born in frankfurt, Germany. Daughter of Edith and Otto Frank.
  • Peter van Pels' birth date

    Peter van Pels' birth date
    Peter van Pels is born inOsnabruck, Germany. Son of Hermann van Pels and Auguste van Pels.
  • Anne Frank's birth date

    Anne Frank's birth date
    Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany. Youngest of two daughters to edith and Otto Frank.
  • Shulamit Perlmutter's (Charlene Schiff) birth date

    Shulamit Perlmutter was born in Horochow, Poland. In 1942,Shulamit and her mother fled their home and hid in the water for days. One day when Shulamit woke up from sleeping, her mother was gone. She was the only survivor of the Holocaust in her family.
  • Hitler rose to power

    Hitler rose to power
    Hitler was democratically elected to become dictator for life.
  • Nazi's

    Nazi's
    Nazi legislature began to pass laws restricting Jewish lives
  • Reich Citizenship Law was passed

    stripped Jews of their German citizenship
  • The Platt family discuss plans

    The Platt family talk about leaving Germany to go to America. Arthur Platt (Papa) leaves with his brother Benjamin and almost a year after, the rest of the family joins him in America (Margo, Ruth, Lisa, and Annie).
  • 32 countries send delegates

    32 countries send dleegates to Evian, France to discuss the Jewish immigration from Germany. The U.S. and most countries refuse to ease immigration restrictions.
  • New York Times article

    The New York Times published an article that said, "Nazi's smash, loot, and burn Jewish..."
  • The Platt family together in America

    The Platt family are united once again in America.
  • The St. Louis

    From May 13-June 17, 1939, Cuba and The U.S. refuse to accept 900 refugees aboard the ocean liiner. The St.Louis refugees return to Europe and England takes 113 as well as Holland. Only the refugees in England survive.
  • Hitler conquers

    Hitler had conquered most of Noway and Europe.
  • Wannsee Conference

    15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
  • Anne's 13th birthday present

    Anne recieves her first diary for her 13th birthday.
  • The Frank Family goes into hiding

    The Frank family fled their home leaving a note behind saying they had lef for Switzerland. They hid behind a bookcase in Amsterdam at Otto's company: Opekta.
  • Anne makes a secret correspondance

    Anne Frank makes a secret correspondance with her best friend Jacqueline.
  • Anne's diary

    Anne tells her diary of the chaos the Nazi's an dHitler are cuasing to all the Jews in Germany.
  • Caught

    The Frank family, along with the Van Daan's and others in hiding with them, are caught and arrested by the Nazi's where all were taken to camps.
  • Hermann van Pels dies

    Hermann van Pels dies
    Hermann van Pels dies at the age of 46 at Mauthausen, Austria
  • Edith Frank dies

    Edith Frank dies
    Edith Frank died at the age of 44 at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland
  • Auschwitz concentration camp

    Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army (Russia/Soviet Union). Edith Frank died about 11 days before her camp was liberated.
  • Auguste van Pels diess

    Auguste van Pels diess
    Auguste van Pels dies. Her offical death date and place is unkown.
  • Anne and Margot Frank die

    Anne and Margot Frank die
    Anee Frank and her sister, Margot Frank, die at the Bergen-Belson concentration camp in Germany. Anne was 15, almost 16, years old and Margot was 19 years old.
  • Bergen-Belson concentration camp

    Bergen-Belson was liberated by Britain. Anne and MArgot Frank were killed three weeks before this date.
  • Adolf Hitler dies

    Adolf Hitler dies
    Adolf Hitler dies at the age of 56 in Berlin Germany.
  • Peter van Pels dies

    Peter van Pels dies
    Peter van Pels dies at the age of 18 at Mauthausen concentration camp. His offical death date is unkown but they say he died sometime between April 11-May 5 of 1945. Peter died only days before his camp was liberated.
  • Mauthausen concentration camp

    Mauthausen concentration camp was fully-liberated by American soldiers.
  • Anne Frank's diary was published

    Anne Frank's diary was published
    Anne Frank's diary was published by Otto Frank (her father) in the Netherlands.
  • Otto Frank dies

    Otto Frank dies
    Otto Frank died at the age of 91, in Birsfelden, Switzerland of lung cancer
  • Victor Kugler dies

    Victor Kugler dies
    Victor Kugler dies at the age of 81 in Toronto, Canada.
  • Jan Karski dies

    Jan Karski dies in Washington, D.C at the age of 86.
  • Brooklyn, New York

    a group of teens play a game called "Knock Out the Jew" and beat up a teenage Jewish boy
  • March in Paris against Jews

    Thousands of right-wingers march in Paris yelling, "Jews get out of France!" In German they would yell, "Juden Raus!" which is translated to "Jews get out!"
  • War criminal dies

    War criminal wanted by Russia dies in Quebec. He was the second most wanted on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's ist of Nazi war criminals. He had been charged for genocide and died at the age of 93.