** 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.

** 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 )

** 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.

** A massive eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat leads to evacuation and eventual abandonment of the capital, Plymouth.

** WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force starts.

** WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British and Dutch forces complete evacuating 300, 000 troops from Dunkirk in France to England.

** Mount Rainier Volcano Lahar Warning System, an emergency system designed to assist evacuation in case of an eruption

** Programme Management Principles ( professional and business ethics, work site and incident investigation methods, exposure guidelines, Occupational exposure limits, jurisdictional based regulations, hazard identification, risk assessment and risk communication, data management, fire evacuation and other emergency responses );

** British Government takes control of railways as a wartime measure ; start of a 4-day evacuation of children by rail from major cities ( over 600, 000 from London ).

** triage and stabilising the casualties for the evacuation ;

** the evacuation of the casualties to adapted care structures ( hospitals ).

** 26 May 1940-The Dunkirk evacuation begins ; over 330, 000 British and French soldiers are evacuated by 4 June.

** The steamer Danae () carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretans on the first leg of their way to Auschwitz was sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.

** Eduard Wirths, German doctor, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp ( suicide ) ( b. 1909 )

** WWII: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

** The Catholic Church calls for removal of the Carmelite convent located near the former Auschwitz concentration camp, whose presence had offended some Jewish leaders.

** Auschwitz by Franciszek Piper

** Auschwitz A History by Sybille Steinbacher, Penguin Book

** The Bombing of Auschwitz by Various, University Press of Kansas

** uprisings such as in Warsaw in 1943 and 1944, and in extermination camps such as in Sobibor in 1943 and Auschwitz in 1944