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1933
August
20 American
Jewish Congress declares boycott against Nazi Germany
August 25
Ha'avara
agreement
1934
August
02 Hindenburg
dies
1936
August
01 Olympic
Games begin in Berlin
1938
August
17 Compulsory
middle names for Jews
August 26
Jewish
Emigration Office opens in Vienna
1939
August
23 Nazis
Soviets sign Non-Aggression Pact
1940
August
08 "Battle
of Britain" begins
August 17
Germany
declares "total blockade of Britain"
1941
August
01 50,000
Jews confined in Bialystok ghetto
August 04
Kovno
ghetto sealed
August 05
Murders
in Pinsk; 10,000 Jews killed in three days
August 27-28
Massacre
at Kamenets-Podolsk
1942
August
08 U.S.
delays information on plan to annihilate Jews to verify sources
August 10
Deportations
from Lvov to Belzec begin; 50,000 gassed
1943
August
02 Uprising
at Treblinka
August 08
First
of five organized groups leaves Vilna ghetto to join partisans
August 15
Bialystok
ghetto liquidated
August 18
Prisoners
of Sonderkommando 1005 forced to exhume tens of thousands of bodies
at Babi Yar
1944
August
07 Liquidation
of Lodz ghetto begins; 74,000 Jews deported to Auschwitz
August 28
Slovak
National Uprising begins
1945
August 06 9:15
a.m. Atomic
bomb on Hiroshima; Nagasaki bombed three days later
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