January 3, 1941: Martin Bormann promulgated a Nazi decree banning gothic typefaces in all printing and proclaiming roman type as the new standard. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

January 2, 1942: Henriette Gottlieb, 57, German soprano dies in the #Łódź Ghetto. Following the Nazi ban on Jewish performers, she lived in Berlin until she was deported to the Łódź Ghetto (in the General Government region of occupied Poland) in 1941. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

January 1, 1945: The Chenogne massacre was committed by members of the 11th Armored Division, an American combat unit, near Chenogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge. An estimated 80 German prisoners of war were massacred by their American captors. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 31, 1943: Leo Bohemen is shot dead in the doorway of his home by Dutch SS member H.W. Atesin. The murder was a reprisal for the attack by the resistance on the “collaborationist” police officer Anne Jannes Elsinga. Five other civilians were also liquidated. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 30, 1940: Sophia Pront-Wagenaar dies at home in Amsterdam. Her husband and 7 children are put on the 7th transport to #Sobibor where, after 3 days in cattle-trains, they are murdered together with 1196 other men, women and children. #RememberHistory #USAtoday @sobibor.org

December 29, 1942: Joseph Rozendaal, at the age of 39, was executed by an SS firing squad at Camp Amersfoort. He carried out resistence activities for the Communist Party of the Netherlands and was affiliated with the "Nederlandse Volksmilitie". #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 28, 1944: Jozef Erbrink dies from exhaustion and illness in "Camp Sangerhausen" at the age of 25. #RememberHistory #USAtoday “It happened, therefore it can happen again. It can happen and it can happen anywhere” (Primo Levi, Survivor of #Auschwitz).

December 27, 1944: Catholic Sister Sára Salkaházi was summarily executed by the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party members on bank of the Danube River. Her body was thrown in the river and never recovered. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 26, 1939: 107 Polish civilians were executed by the German occupiers of Wawer, Poland, in retaliation for the killing of two German soldiers in a shootout by two petty criminals.. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 25, 1943: 64 prisoners tunneled their way out of the Ninth Fort, a prison in German-occupied Lithuania near Šilainiai, used primarily for the housing of Lithuanian Jews until they could be murdered. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 24, 1944: The Bande massacre. A total of 34 men between the ages of 17 and 32 were executed by the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst near Bande, Belgium in retaliation for the killing of three German soldiers. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 23, 1925: Italy's parliament, dominated by the Fascist Party, passed a Law, declaring that the decisions of Benito Mussolini and his government were not subject to legislative review, and that Mussolini could only be overruled by order of the King. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 22, 1942: 11 members of the "Rote Kapelle” were executed at #Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Nazi Germany. 5 were hanged (from meat hooks by piano wire, a method designed to prolong their suffering) and 6 were beheaded by guillotine. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 21, 1941: Romanian and German units began murdering the inmates of the Bogdanovka concentration camp. By the end of the year over 40,000 Jews would be killed. #RememberHistory #USAtoday “It happened, therefore it can happen again. it can happen anywhere” (Primo Levi).

December 20, 1924: Adolf Hitler was released from Landsberg Prison as part of a general amnesty for political prisoners, after having served 13 months of a five-year prison sentence. He returned to his small Munich apartment where his friends threw him a party. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 19, 1938: Herschel Grynszpan appeared before a magistrate in Paris and explained why he shot Ernst vom Rath. Grynszpan said he did not intend to kill vom Rath but only wanted to shoot him as a protest against the Nazi treatment of Jews. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 18, 1943: German SS soldiers from the "4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division" carried out the Drakeia massacre in Greece, executing 118 men as part of so-called anti-partisan reprisals. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 17, 1933: Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller, the leader of the Reich Church, ordered that the 700,000 youth, who had been part of the church's Evangelical Youth Movement, be placed under the control of the Hitler Youth and its leader, Baldur von Schirach. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 16, 1943: Elfriede Scholz, sister of Erich Remarque (the German-born author of All Quiet on the Western Front’'), was beheaded after being convicted in the German "People's Court" of "undermining the war effort" and by failing to denounce her famous brother. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 15, 1943: The first war crimes trial of World War II began at Kharkov in the Soviet Union, 3 German officers and a Russian collaborator were tried for "crimes and atrocities”. Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov, Hans Ritz, Reinhard Retzlaff, and Wilhelm Langheld. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 14, 1942: Sarita Carry (Rita) Mullem dies in a hospital in Amsterdam. Rita was born in Hamburg and in March 1942 she was forced to leave her home and business and move to Amsterdam. On December 12 she attempted to take her life. She passed away on the 14th. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 13, 1945: 11 former SS camp personnel (8 men and 3 women) that were sentenced to death in the first Belsen trial were executed by hanging at Hamelin Prison. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 12, 1942: The 42th transport left #Westerbork for #Auschwitz. After this there was a pause in the deportations due to the allocation of German trains for soldiers returning home from the frontlines to celebrate Christmas. No one from this transport would survive. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 11, 1941: Germany declared war on the United States. Hitler gave a speech to the Reichstag announcing the declaration of war. Italy also declared war on the United States. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 10, 1939: The 1939 Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm. The Peace Prize was not awarded. Erik Brandt, a Swedish Social Democratic politician, had mockingly nominated Adolf Hitler for the Peace prize, he withdrew his nomination after a short time. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 9, 1946: The Nuremberg Doctors' Trial opened with 23 defendants, only 16 of them would be convicted. 9 were convicted to prison sentences but all were released by 1955. 7 were sentenced to death. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 8, 1942: The 41th transport left #Westerbork for #Auschwitz. The train carried 927 deportees of which 131 were children. Most of the deportees were send to the gas chambers on arrival and within 6 months all but a few men were murdered. Only two people survived. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 7, 1941: Hitler issued the Nacht und Nebel ("Night and Fog") decree, targeting political dissidents for disappearances. #RememberHistory #USAtoday “It happened, therefore it can happen again. It can happen and it can happen anywhere” (Primo Levi, Survivor of #Auschwitz).

December 6, 1938: Von Ribbentrop and Georges Bonnet signed a treaty by which Germany and France guaranteed the inviolability of one another's borders and agreed to engage in mutual consultation to resolve all disputes peacefully. Germany invaded France 10 May 1940. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 5, 1924: Benito Mussolini introduced a bill enforcing widespread press censorship. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 4, 1942: On this Friday, the first day of Hanukah, the Jewish feast of lights, the 40th mass transport from #Westerbork left for #Auschwitz. Nobody from this transport would survive. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 3, 1938: Nazi Germany had a nationwide "day of solidarity" collecting street donations for the Winterhilfswerk fund. Jews were ordered to stay off the streets. According to the order by Heinrich Himmler, they had "no share in the solidarity of the German nation." #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 2, 1938: The first 200 Jewish children of the Kindertransport program arrived in England. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

December 1, 1936: Nazi Germany passed several new laws. Membership in the Hitler Youth was made mandatory and the death penalty was introduced for those who hoarded their wealth abroad. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 30, 1942: The 39th mass transport from the Netherlands left #Westerbork for #Auschwitz. Mostly former employees of the Hollandia-Kattenburg company and their families. There were 104 children on this transport. Only 9 men survived. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 29, 1941: The second mass shooting of the Ninth Fort massacres occurred. A total of 4,934 German Jews, that had been deported without due process, were killed by the Nazis in the two days of shootings in the Ninth Fort near Kaunas, Lithuania. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 28, 1938: A police decree in Nazi Germany authorized presidents of administrative districts to order restrictions on freedom of movement for Jews. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 27, 1941: On this Thursday in 1941, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln held a meeting at the Riga office of the Protective Police (Schutzpolizei) to coordinate the actions in the forthcoming Rumbula massacre. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 26, 1942: The train that had left #Westerbork on Tuesday arrived at #Auschwitz. 42 women from this transport were admitted into the camp and were tattooed with the serial numbers 25927-25968. All the others, 667, were immediately murdered in the gas chambers. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 25, 1944: The German SS began dismantling the technical equipment of crematorium II at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. An air-pump engine from the gas chamber was planned for #Mauthausen and pipes for #Gross-Rosen camps. Photo: Ruins of crematorium II in 1946. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 24, 1942: A transport left #Westerbork for #Auschwitz with 709 prisoners, nobody survived. Moritz Frank and his wife Johanna were on that transport. She was send to the gas chamber on arrival. Moritz died in #Buchenwald a few weeks before it was liberated. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 23, 1931: Carl von Ossietzky is sentenced to 18 months in prison for "betraying military secrets". He had exposed details of Germany's construction of a secret air force in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Ossietzky died of tuberculosis in 1938. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 22, 1946: Otto Thierack, 57, Reich Minister of Justice in Nazi Germany from 1942-1945, committed suicide before he could be brought before a United States military court in the Nuremberg Judges' Trial. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 21, 1937: Lord Halifax ended his visit to Nazi Germany. He returned to London believing that Hitler could be bargained with, and this development marked the beginning of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy toward Germany. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 20, 1942: The 37th transport departed from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz. With this transport, 726 Jews were deported; On arrival after selection 654 people were send to the gas chambers. No one on this transport survived. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 19, 1943: Susanna Ledermann is 15 years old when she and her parents, Franz and Ilse, arrive at Auschwitz II-Birkenau from #Westerbork. Her sister, Barbara, is not with them. After selection Susanna and her parents are murdered in the gas chambers. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 18, 1943: The Ebensee (a subcamp of #Mauthausen) concentration camp opened, receiving its first 1,000 prisoners. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 17, 1939: Germans stormed the Prague University, attacking and arresting thousands of students. The Nazis executed nine students and professors by firing squad without trial that day for leading the previous demonstrations against the German occupation. #RememberHistory #USAtoday

November 16, 1940: The Warsaw Ghetto was officially sealed, cutting off 380,000 Jews from the rest of the world. #RememberHistory #USAtoday “It happened, therefore it can happen again. It can happen and it can happen anywhere” (Primo Levi, Survivor of #Auschwitz).

November 15, 1943: Himmler issued an order reclassifying the Gypsies in German-occupied territories. He declared "nomadic Gypsies and part-Gypsies are to be placed on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." #RememberHistory #USAtoday