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11 December ·
Germany declares war on United States; United States responds with declaration of war on Germany
 
1942
 
20
January. Decision for total extermination of Europe's Jews made at Wannsee Conference in Germany
27
March. First deportation leaves Drancy for Auschwitz, dozens follow through July 1944
7 June ·
Yellow star regulation goes into effect in Paris
6 July
. Anne Frank and her family go into hiding at 263 Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, the Secret Annex
16-17 July.
Vélodrome d‘Hiver roundup of more than 12,000 foreign Jews in Paris
 
11 November.
German troops occupy all of France in response to Allied invasion of North Africa
 
1943
 
31
January. French fascist militias, including the Permilleux Service, created
February.
STO goes into effect, drafting French men to work in Germany
2 July ·
Alois Brunner assumes administration of Drancy detention camp
 
1944
 
6 June.
D-Day, Allies invade Europe at Normandy, France
10 June.
Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, 642 people murdered by Nazi SS
12 June.
Anne Frank turns fifteen years old
31 July ·
Final official transport from Drancy
4
August. Anne Frank and family arrested in the Secret Annex
9
August. German army begins to withdraw from Paris
17
August. Brunner deports fifty-one prisoners from Drancy to Buchenwald in one final railway car attached to a German troop train, including Armand Kohn, chief administrator of the Rothschild Hospital, and his family. Escapees from this transport include Philippe and Rose-Marie Kohn
 
1
8 August. 1,500 prisoners at Drancy liberated by Allied troops
23
August. Paris liberated by American, British, Canadian, and Free French troops
 
September. Armand Kohn's youngest son, Georges-André Kohn, twelve, transferred to Auschwitz
 
3
September. Anne Frank and family deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau
5 September.
Anne and family arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau
2
8 October.
Anne and her sister, Margot, are transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany
12
November. Georges-André Kohn transferred to Neuengamme camp, near Hamburg, Germany, to be used in horrific medical experiments, including being injected with tuberculosis
 
1945
 
6 January.
Edith Frank, Anne's mother, dies of starvation at Auschwitz
27
January.
Auschwitz is liberated by Russian troops. Otto Frank survives
March.
Margot and Anne Frank both die of typhus in Bergen-Belsen. (Peter Van Pels died at Mauthausen concentration camp.)
20 April ·
With British troops no more than three miles away, Georges-André Kohn and the twenty other children at Neuengamme are murdered by injection of fatal doses of morphine
8 May.
V-E Day, Nazi Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies
 
1947 ·
First edition of Anne Frank's diary published by Otto Frank in Holland
 
1985 ·
Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation completes extensive scientific study authenticating Anne Frank's diary
 
1988 ·
Alois Brunner, commandant of Drancy camp, confirmed alive in Syria
 
 
1995-Present ·
Holocaust denial web sites proliferate on Internet
 
 
The total number of Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators is estimated at no less than 5.2 million and as many as 6 million, representing two-thirds of all Jews alive in Europe at the beginning of the war. Of the approximately 300,000 Jews on French soil at the outbreak of the war, 76,000 were murdered.
FURTHER TIME LINE SOURCES;
britannica.com
uen.org
thehistoryplace.com
The Simon Wiesenthal Center
 
 
Bryce-Jones, Robert. Paris Under the Occupation. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1981.
 
Dank, Milton.
The French Against the French.
New York: Lippencott, 1974.
Josephs, Jeremy.
Swastika Over Paris.
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1989.
Klarsfeld, Serge.
French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial.
New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Klarsfeld, Serge.
Le Memorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France.
Paris: Klarsfeld, 1978.
Muller, Melissa.
Anne Frank: The Biography.
New York: Henry Holt, 998.
Rozett, Robert.
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust,
vol. 2. Edited by Israel Gutman. New York: Macmillan, 1989.
 
Weisberg, Richard H., and Michael R. Marrus.
Vichy France and the Jews.
New York: New York University Press, 1996
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