January 27, 1945, Soviet-allied troops liberate the Auchwitz concentration camp.

April 11, 1945, American Allied troops liberate Buchenwald concentration camp.

April 15, 1945, British Allied troops liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

April 29, 1945, American Allied troops liberate Dachau concentration camp.

April 30, 1945, Adolf Hilter commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin.

May 1, 1945,  Joseph Goebbels commits suicide.

May 5, 1945, American Allied troops liberate Mauthausen concentration camp.

May 7, 1945, Germany surrenders to the Allied forces.

November 20, 1945, The Nuremberg Nazi war trials begin. 

October 1946, The first war criminals from the Nuremberg Trials are executed.

1947, Arnold Schoenberg composes A Survivor From Warsaw in memory of those in the Resistance that died.

1947, Nelly Sachs' first poetic anthology dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust is published.

May 14, 1948, The establishment of the Jewish State of Israel is announced. Survivors begin to emigrate there.

1948 Survivors begin new lives in  New Zealand, Britain, Canada, Australia, and the United States of America.

May 1960 Israel's Mossad captures Adolf Eichmann, who was hiding in Buenos Aries, Argentina.

April 1961, Adolf Eichmann's trial begins. Eichmann is found guilty and condemned to death.

May 1962, Adolf Eichmann is executed. 

1968, Charles Davidson composes, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, based on the children's poems in Terezin.

1970 to the Present, Holocaust Memorials, Museums, and Ceremonies are held to honor those who survived and remember those who perished.