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
January 2, 1917
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Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor Of Germany
January 30, 1933
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SS Opens Dachau Concentration Camp
March 20, 1933
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Boycott Of Jewish Owned Businesses In Germany Begins
April 1, 1933
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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
March 26, 1938
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Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
November 9, 1938
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World War II Begins
September 1, 1939
Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939.
Felix Is An Inmate At Stalag III-A, Brandenburg
October 2, 1939
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Auschwitz Death Camp Opens
May 6, 1940
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Felix Is Transferred To Lublin Ghetto
October 6, 1941
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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
December 7, 1941
“A Date Which Will Live In Infamy”
December 8, 1941
US Declares War On Germany, Italy & Japan
December 11, 1941
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.
Extermination Feared by Jews In Poland
March 1, 1942
SOURCE: New York Times (p.28)
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
September 7, 1942
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New York Times Article References Holocaust
November 25, 1942
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NYT: 11 Allies Condemn Nazi War On Jews
December 18, 1942
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins
April 19, 1943
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Bluma Is Transferred To Czestochowa Ghetto
February 7, 1944
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D-Day: Allied Forces Invade Normandy, France
June 6, 1944
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Battle Of The Bulge Begins
December 16, 1944
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Bluma Is Transferred To Bergen-Belsen
January 8, 1945
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Felix Arrives At Buchenwald From Gross Rosen
Bluma Is Transferred To Kaufering
April 2, 1945
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Buchenwald Liberated By US Troops
April 11, 1945
Felix Goldberg among Jews in Buchenwald liberated by US Troops.
Congressmen See Horrors of Nazi Camp
April 23, 1945
Associated Press published in The State (Columbia SC).
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Germany Surrenders
May 7, 1945
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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
Bluma Arrives At Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp
May 8, 1945
World War II Ends
September 2, 1945
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Nuremberg Trials Begin
November 20, 1945
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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.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: A Primer In Resettlement For Small Communities
