Genocide of European Roma (Gypsies), 1939-1945
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Other Vicitms included:
• Jehovah’s Witnesses (picture on left)• Homosexuals• Persons with Disabilities• Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and
others)
• Political dissidents-primarily Communists, Socialists, Social
Democrats, and trade unionists
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LiberatorsAmerican Soldiers Enter German Town
American infantrymen inspect propaganda pamphlets and other Nazi items
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe
“I have never felt able to describe my emotional reaction when I first came face to face with indisputable evidence of Nazi brutality and ruthless disregard of every shred of decency...I visited every nook and cranny of the camp because I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify at first hand about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.”
--General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied Forces, Europe, Letter to Chief of Staff George Marshall, April 12, 1945
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Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, January 27, 1945.
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May 12, 1889Anne's father, Otto Frank, is born in Frankfurt, Germany.
1900 Anne's mother, Edith Hollander, born in Aachen, Germany.
1908-1909 Otto Frank in America working at Macy's Department Store in New York.
1914-1918Otto Frank serves in the German Army during World War I and attains the rank of lieutenant.
1925 Anne's parents marry and settle in Frankfurt, Germany.
June 12, 1929 Anne (Annelies Marie) Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany.
1933 Frank family moves to Amsterdam, Holland, when Hitler comes to power in Germany.
June 12, 1942 Anne receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
July, 1942 Margot Frank gets a call to report to a transit camp.
July 6, 1942The Frank family moves into the 'secret annex' joined by the van Daan family one week later.
Aug 4, 1944The Franks are arrested, taken to a police station, the to Westerbork, a transit camp in Holland.
Sept 2, 1944 And and the others in the annex are sent to Auschwitz.
Oct 30, 1944 Anne and her sister, Margot, are sent to Bergen-Belsen.
Jan 6, 1945 Edith Frank dies of starvation in Auschwitz.
Jan 7, 1945 Auschwitz is liberated. Otto Frank is the only survivor from the annex.
March 1945 Margot dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen.
April 1945 Anne dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen.
Timeline of Anne Frank’s life
The Aftermath
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