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Holocaust - This Day In History

The Holocaust, during which some 6 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other people were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany during World War II, was one of the most horrific war crimes ever committed.

1944

Anne Frank writes her last diary entry

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1939

Ship carrying 937 Jewish refugees, fleeing Nazi Germany, is turned away in Cuba

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This Day In History: 11/09/1938 – Nazis Launch Kristallnacht

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This Day in History: 08/04/1944 – Anne Frank captured

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2010

Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank, dies at 100

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1960

High-ranking Nazi official Adolf Eichmann captured

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1987

Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s last living henchman, dies

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1942

Anne Frank’s family takes refuge

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1945

U.S. Army liberates Dachau concentration camp

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1941

Babi Yar massacre begins

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1961

Architect of the Holocaust sentenced to die

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1962

Architect of the Holocaust hanged in Israel

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