** Holocaust Memorial Day ( United Kingdom )

** International Holocaust Remembrance Day ( International )

** The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah ( Hebrew:, Latinized ha ' shoah ; Yiddish:, Latinized churben or hurban ) is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators.

** In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.

** The so-called " Big Three " banks in Switzerland announced the creation of a $ 71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

** The Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.

** The Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving 3 days later.

** The Holocaust: The evacuation of Auschwitz concentration camp begins.

** Holocaust: By order of the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13, 000 – 20, 000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.

** Holocaust: In Warsaw, 2 women, Zofia Kossak and Wanda Filipowicz, risk their lives by setting up the Council for the Assistance of the Jews.

** Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.

** Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Konzentrationslager Lublin ( commonly known as " Majdanek ") opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin.

** Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Chelmno opens in occupied Poland near a small village called Chełmno nad Nerem.

** Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor ( d. 1996 )

** Holocaust: The Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the German concentration camps, opens in occupied Poland near the town of Oświęcim.

** The Holocaust: Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan.

** Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character / narrator of Maus ( a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust ) ( b. 1906 )

** Martin Niemöller, prisoner in the Nazi Holocaust ( d. 1984 )

** Holocaust – NBC

** Resolution 61 / 255: Condemned without any reservation any denial of the Holocaust

** operating the International School for Holocaust Studies ;

** developing age-appropriate study programs, curricula and educational materials for both Israeli and foreign schools, in order to teach students of all ages about the Holocaust

** holding exhibitions about the Holocaust ; and

** teaching about the Holocaust to the general public.

** Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (" old mountain " in French ), the former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet

** This German publication is both one of the most comprehensive general introductions to the life and works of the philosopher and physician Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 ) and an extensive and careful survey of his contribution to the history of science.

** Langer Eugen, since 2006 the centre of the United Nations Campus, formerly housing the offices of the members of the German parliament

** The Bunsen – Kirchhoff Award, a German award for spectroscopy

** Between Basel SBB and Basel Badischer Bahnhof – Basel Badischer Bahnhof, and all other railway property and stations on the right bank of the Rhine belong to DB and are classed as German customs territory.

** Commodore ( Germany ) or Kommodore, in German naval forces

** State Diet ( In German: Landtag ), state parliament of most of the German federated states

** The Diet of the Empire ( In German: Reichstag ), legislative assembly of the German Empire 1871 – 1917

** The Federal Diet ( In German: Deutscher Bundestag ), federal parliament of Germany

** Ruodlieb ( Latin ), by a German author

** Nibelungenlied ( Middle High German )

** Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach-( Middle High German )

** Old High German literature ( 750-1050 )

** Middle High German literature ( 1050 – 1300 )

** Late medieval German literature / Renaissance ( 1300 – 1500 )

** Eighteenth-and 19th-century German literature

** 20th century German literature

** Contemporary German literature ( 1989 -)

** The Kingdom of Prussia became part of the German Empire.

** The Pferdestärke PS ( German translation of horsepower ) is a name for a group of similar power measurements used in Germany around the end of the 19th century, all of about one metric horsepower in size.

** German gold mark, coinage of the German Empire from 1873 to 1914

** German Papiermark, German coinage from 1914 to 1929