** 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: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

** 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 )

** 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.

** Malbork, Poland, site of the Ordensburg Marienburg, formerly Marienburg in Westpreußen and during World War II, Nazi Stalag XX-B ( prisoner-of-war camp ) for enlisted men

** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.

** Nazi Germany invades Poland, Denmark, Norway, Benelux, and the French Third Republic from 1939 to 1941.

** George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader ( d. 1967 )

** Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to Germany.

** Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 1979 )

** Following the invasion of Poland, Danzig ( now Gdańsk, Poland ) is annexed to Nazi Germany.

** Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, in English, and Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe, in French, give an international radio address, stating its intentions to declare war against Nazi Germany.

** Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion.

** Karl Hass, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 2004 )

** American forces successfully defeat Nazi forces at Chambois, closing the Falaise Gap.

** The Nazi authorities kill 117 Dutch men in reprisal for the attempted murder Hanns Albin Rauter.

** The Allied Forces liberate the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald.

** Canadian soldiers liberate the city of Amsterdam from Nazi occupation.

** V-E Day ( Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders ) commemorates the end of WWII in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.

** The Norwegian Nazi leader Vidkun Quisling is shot to death by a firing squad for treason against Norway.

** Hermann Fegelein, German Nazi general ( b. 1906 )

** Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator ( suicide ) ( b. 1889 )

** Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi propagandist ( suicide ) ( b. 1897 )

** Bernhard Rust, Education Minister of Nazi Germany ( suicide ) ( b. 1883 )

** Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi Reich Main Security Office and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia ( assassinated ) ( b. 1904 )

** Nazi War criminals convicted in the Nuremberg Trials are executed by hanging in a gymnasium in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice premises.

** Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader ( b. 1892 )

** Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor General of Poland ( b. 1900 )