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World War I Begins
World War I Begins
July 28, 1914

World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918.

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Felix Goldberg Is Born In Kalisz, Poland
Felix Goldberg Is Born In Kalisz, Poland
January 2, 1917

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World War I Ends
November 11, 1918
Bluma Tishgarten Is Born In Pinczow, Poland
June 10, 1926

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Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor Of Germany
Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor Of Germany
January 30, 1933

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Adolf Hitler Named Chancellor in 1933
Adolf Hitler Named Chancellor in 1933
January 31, 1933

Source: The Greenville News

SS Opens Dachau Concentration Camp
SS Opens Dachau Concentration Camp
March 20, 1933

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Boycott Of Jewish Owned Businesses In Germany Begins
Boycott Of Jewish Owned Businesses In Germany Begins
April 1, 1933

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Buchenwald Concentration Camp Is Built In Germany
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Is Built In Germany
July 5, 1937

Buchenwald was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany’s 1937 borders.

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Hermann Göring Warns All Jews To Leave Austria
Hermann Göring Warns All Jews To Leave Austria
March 26, 1938

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Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
November 9, 1938

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World War II Begins
World War II Begins
September 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939.

Germany Invades Pinczow, Poland
September 4, 1939

Germans invade Bluma’s town of Pinczow. Bluma (age 13) and sister escape into nearby woods.

Felix Is Taken POW On Rosh Hashana
September 13, 1939
Felix Is An Inmate At Stalag III-A, Brandenburg
Felix Is An Inmate At Stalag III-A, Brandenburg
October 2, 1939

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Auschwitz Death Camp Opens
Auschwitz Death Camp Opens
May 6, 1940

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Felix Is Transferred To Lublin Ghetto
Felix Is Transferred To Lublin Ghetto
October 6, 1941

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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
December 7, 1941
“A Date Which Will Live In Infamy”
“A Date Which Will Live In Infamy”
December 8, 1941
US Declares War On Germany, Italy & Japan
US Declares War On Germany, Italy & Japan
December 11, 1941
Felix Is An Inmate At Jutrosin Camp
January 19, 1942
Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference
January 20, 1942

High ranking Nazi officials meet at a villa in Berlin Germany. The Wannsee Conference is where Hitler’s Final Solution is first planned and set in motion.

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Extermination Feared by Jews In Poland
Extermination Feared by Jews In Poland
March 1, 1942

SOURCE: New York Times (p.28)

Riegner Telegram Alerts World Of Nazi Holocaust
Riegner Telegram Alerts World Of Nazi Holocaust
August 8, 1942

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Bluma Is Taken To A HASAG Slave Labor Camp In Kielce
Bluma Is Taken To A HASAG Slave Labor Camp In Kielce
September 7, 1942

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Felix Is Transferred To Rawitsch
October 19, 1942
New York Times Article References Holocaust
New York Times Article References Holocaust
November 25, 1942

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NYT: 11 Allies Condemn Nazi War On Jews
NYT: 11 Allies Condemn Nazi War On Jews
December 18, 1942

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins
April 19, 1943

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Felix Is Transferred To Auschwitz
October 4, 1943

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Bluma Is Transferred To Czestochowa Ghetto
Bluma Is Transferred To Czestochowa Ghetto
February 7, 1944

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D-Day: Allied Forces Invade Normandy, France
D-Day: Allied Forces Invade Normandy, France
June 6, 1944

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Discovery Of Concentration Camps And The Holocaust
July 24, 1944

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Battle Of The Bulge Begins
Battle Of The Bulge Begins
December 16, 1944

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Bluma Is Transferred To Bergen-Belsen
Bluma Is Transferred To Bergen-Belsen
January 8, 1945

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Felix Is A Participant In Death March From Auschwitz
January 18, 1945

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Auschwitz Liberated By Russian Troops
January 27, 1945
Felix Arrives At Buchenwald From Gross Rosen
Felix Arrives At Buchenwald From Gross Rosen
February 10, 1945

PHOTO: Felix Goldberg At Buchenwald

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Bluma Is Transferred To Burgau (Subcamp to Dauchau Concentration Camp)
March 5, 1945
Bluma Is Transferred To Kaufering
Bluma Is Transferred To Kaufering
April 2, 1945

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Buchenwald Liberated By US Troops
Buchenwald Liberated By US Troops
April 11, 1945

Felix Goldberg among Jews in Buchenwald liberated by US Troops.

PHOTO: Felix Goldberg Buchenwald ID Card

Edward R. Murrow Radio Broadcast On The Liberation Of Buchenwald
April 15, 1945

CBS Newsman Edward R Murrow’s radio broadcast on the occasion of the liberation of Buchenwald.

Congressmen See Horrors of Nazi Camp
Congressmen See Horrors of Nazi Camp
April 23, 1945

Associated Press published in The State (Columbia SC).

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US Congressmen And Reporters Visit Buchenwald
April 24, 1945

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Bluma Is Liberated From Kaufering VI In Turkhein Camp
April 29, 1945

Bluma (along with her sister) is liberated from Kaufering VI in Turkhein (subcamp to Dachau) camp by 12th Armored Division of US Army; transported to Holzhausen Hospital near Landsberg Germany.

Germany Surrenders
Germany Surrenders
May 7, 1945

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TIME’s 1945 Report On The Horrors Of Dachau
TIME’s 1945 Report On The Horrors Of Dachau
May 7, 1945

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Life Magazine’s 1945 Report On The German People
Life Magazine’s 1945 Report On The German People
May 7, 1945

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Bluma Arrives At Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp
Bluma Arrives At Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp
May 8, 1945

PHOTO: Displaced Persons Camp at Landsberg, Germany

Felix Goldberg’s Name On “List Of Jewish Survivors From Camp Buchenwald”
June 10, 1945

This list was prepared by the World Jewish Congress.

US Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan
August 6, 1945

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World War II Ends
World War II Ends
September 2, 1945

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Nuremberg Trials Begin
Nuremberg Trials Begin
November 20, 1945

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Lists of all persons of United Nations and other foreigners, German Jews and stateless persons
November 10, 1947

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President Harry Truman becomes the first world leader to officially recognize Israel
May 14, 1948

On May 14 1948, President Harry Truman becomes the first world leader to officially recognize Israel as a legitimate Jewish state , only eleven minutes after its creation.

A Primer In Resettlement For Small Communities
A Primer In Resettlement For Small Communities
May 2, 1949

In May 1949, New Neighbors, a USNA newsletter, featured an article, “A Primer in Resettlement for Small Communities,” which described Columbia SC efforts to welcome displaced persons.

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Newspaper Reports Capture of Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann
Newspaper Reports Capture of Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann
April 11, 1961
Auschwitz Trials (1963-1965)
December 20, 1963

The Frankfurt-Auschwitz Trials were the trials of twenty-two Nazi personnel who served at the Auschwitz Camp Complex between 1940 and 1945. The trials primarily took place in Frankfurt am Main between 20 December 1963 and 20 August 1965.

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