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Holocaust History Archive
Back to This Month in Holocaust History
January 20, 1942: Wansee Conference
December 1911: Szpilman's Birthday
November 1937: The Eternal Jew
October 1945 & 1946: International Military Tribunal
September 27, 1938: Jewish Lawyers Disbarred
August 2, 1934: Hitler Becomes Führer
July 13, 1938: Evian Conference on Refugees
June 12, 1929: The Birth of Anne Frank
May 10, 1933: “Un-German” Book Burning
April 1942: First Transports to Majdanek
March 1933: Dachau Concentration Camp
February 1940: Lodz Ghetto
 
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