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								80% of Herero Tribe in present-day Namibia killed by German Government										National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded												1915-22: Armenian Genocide carried out by Ottoman Empire						1918-21: 100,000-250,000 Ukranian Jews killed in Government-sponsored pogroms				US grants women right to vote		Nazi Party Platform adopted						Hitler writes Mein Kampf in prison		Snyder Act extends citizenship to all Native Americans born in US																1932-33: 38 million Ukrainians die in famine created by former Soviet Union		Hitler appointed Reich Chancellor; Reichstag fire; Gestapo formed; Sterilization Laws enacted; Dachau concentration camp established		SA purged in Night of the Long Knives; SS made independent organization; Hindenburg dies; Hitler becomes Führer		Nuremberg Race Laws passed; Jewish performers and artists forced to join Jewish Cultural Unions		1936-39: 400,000-500,00 political dissidents killed by former Soviet Union		Rhineland occupied; Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis; Himmler appointed head of German Police; Nazis set up Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortions (by healthy women); Olympic Games begin in Berlin		Buchenwald opens		Mauthausen concentration camp established; Anschluss; Evian Conference; Munich Agreement; Sudentenland occupied; Grynszpan kills Rath; Kristallnacht; 26,000 Jews sent to concentration camps		SS St Louis, carrying 930 Jewish refugees, turned away from Cuba, US, elsewhere, returns to Europe; Occupaton of Czechoslovakia; Soviet-German Non-Agression Pact; German invasion of Poland; Polish Jews required to wear yellow star; Eichmann put in charge of Jewish affairs; Word War II begins		Germany invades Denmark, Norway, France, Holland and Belgium; Auschwitz established, Höss made camp commandant; ghettos in Lodz, Krakow and Warsaw sealed off; gas vans first used to kill mental patients		The ship "Struma", carrying 769 Jews, leaves Romania for Palestine, is turned back; Germany attacks the Soviet Union; 34,000 Jews massacred in Odessa, 34,000 in Kiev, 15,000 in Rovno, 27,000 in Riga and 32,000 in Vilna; Chelmno and Majdanek open; German Jews forced to wear yellow stars; Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; US enters World War II		Wannsee Conference; Belzec, Sorbibor and Treblinka death camps opened; 300,000 Jews deported from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka; Zyklon B first used at Auschwitz; "Struma" sunk in Black Sea by Soviet submarine		Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; revolts at Sorbibor and Treblinka		476,000 Jews deported from Hungary to Auschwitz; D-Day; Majdanek death camp liberated; revolt at Auschwitz		Yalta Conference; Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen liberated; Germany surrenders; US drops atom bomb on Hiroshima, Nagasaki; Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal begins						UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights		Geneva Conventions provide standards for more humane treatment for prisoners of war				UN adopts Convention on the Status of Refugees		Immigration and Naturalization Act ends racial and ethnic barriers to naturalization of aliens in US		UN adopts Convention on Political rights of Women		Racial segregation declared unconstitutional in US										Uprising in Tibet in response to 1949-50 Chinese invasion; 1/5 of Tibetans die between 1959-79		1960-96: Guatemalan Government targets Mayans during 30 years of civil war		Eichmann tried in Israel for crimes against humanity, convicted and executed				Over 20,000 Tutsis killed by Hutus in Rwanda; 150,000 Tutsis refugees flee to Burundi & Uganda				600,000 political dissidents killed by Indonesian Government				500,000-2 million Ibos die of starvation in Nigeria during Biafran Civil War										At least 150,000 Hutus killed by the Tutsi-led army in Burundi		At least 5,000 Tutsis killed by Hutus in Rwanda; school children are targeted						1975-79: Khmer Rouge kill 3 million Cambodians		1975-Present: Over 200,000 Timorese die under Indonesian occupation				US Department of State creates human rights bureau						1980-Present: Over 200 Bahá'ís killed by Islamic Republic of Iran		UN adopts Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance Based on Religion or Belief						UN adopts Convention Against Torture								1988-Present: 180,000 Kurds disappeared, 4,000 villages razed, by Iraqi Government		US ratifies Genocide Convention		China massacres students in Tiananmen Square						1992-1995: Mass murder of Muslims by Serbs during Bosnian Civil War: "ethnic cleansing"		Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia established at The Hague; first international crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg Trials		The first UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is installed								Yukoslav Government commits atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo
																												Mauricio Lasansky born in Buenos Aires, Argentina																				Larry Rivers born in the Bronx, New York		Gerda Meyer-Bernstein born in Germany						Netty Vanderpol born in Holland						Edith Altman born in Germany								Samuel Bak born								Gabrielle Rossmer born in Bamberg, Germany																				Mindy Weisel born in Germany		Art Spiegelman born in Stockholm, Sweden																																																				Group with Blue Angel								Kaddish #2, Kaddish #7, Kaddish #8		Landscapes of Jewish History: Ponar		Triptych				Barbed Souls								#15 from Wrappings		Jew, Transports		Terezin, Death Is..., Memorial, Erasing the Past, Erasing the Past II		...And All the King's Horses..., Our Most Important Product		The Apotheosis of Krupp, Primo Levi: Witness Drawing				Maus, Just, Shadows of Auschwitz, Eastern Tours, Beating Station		Kvitl Shoah, Holocaust #2, Holocaust #5, Holocaust #6, Memorial to the Jews of Lodz #2		Shrine, Holocaust #15, The Jews of Lodz and Krakow #13, Last Journey, Journey II, Crawlspace, Attic in Sastin, Conversations with Rzeszow, In Search of the Lost Object, Prayer by the Wall		Reclaiming the Symbol, Peace in Our Time, Memorial to the Jews of Lodz #3, The Jews of Prague #13		Maria Spitzer, Rena Grynbalt, Henryk Werdinger, Jadzia Strykowska, Josef Neumann, Heinz Katz, The Building of the Temple		Vilno Ghetto, Crematory Schlafwagen, Drowned and Saved		Abraham and Sarah in Auschwitz