Download daniel`s story timeline of historical events for middle school students

DANIEL’S STORY
TIMELINE OF HISTORICAL EVENTS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
Daniel is a composite character whose story is based upon the experiences of Jewish children
who were born in Germany, sent to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, and then deported to the
concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland.
March 30, 1927
Daniel is born.
January 30, 1933
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany, and
the Nazi Party comes to Power.
April 1-3, 1933
Germans boycott shops and businesses that are owned by Jews,
including Daniel’s father’s hardware store.
September 15, 1935
The Nuremberg Laws are passed to protect the “purity“ of the
Aryan race. Daniel’s family is deprived of civil rights.
November 9 -10, 1938
Kristallnacht,the Night of Broken Glass. Daniel’s synagogue is
burned, Jewish homes and businesses are vandalized, Jewish
men are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps.
September 1, 1939
World War II begins when Germany invades Poland. Curfew laws
require Daniel and his family to stay in the house after nine
o’clock at night.
October 18, 1941
Daniel’s family is deported to the Lodz ghetto in Poland. The
ghetto was first established in December 1939.
December 7, 1941
The United States enters World War II.
June 6, 1944
Allied forces land in Normandy, France, in the D-Day invasion.
June 1944
Soon after D-Day, the Germans, afraid of defeat, order the liquidation of the
Lodz ghetto. Daniel and his family are deported from Lodz to AuschwitzBirkenau in August.
November 1944
Daniel and his father are sent from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, a concentration
camp in Germany.
April 11-12, 1945
Buchenwald is liberated by American troops.
May 8, 1945
Germany surrenders to the Allies. The Second World War is over.
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