On the 12th June 1942, Anne Frank received a diary as a thirteenth birthday present from her father.
6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence
6th February 2020
The future Roman Emperor Titus began the Siege of Jerusalem, during which the Second Temple was burned and destroyed.
Anti-Semitic attacks spread across England and reached York in March 1190.
On the 20th January 1942, a number of senior Nazis met at the Wannsee Conference where they discussed what was referred to as the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
The Jewish population of Basel were massacred amidst accusations that they were responsible for causing the Black Death.
Relations between Catholicism and Judaism cover a long, complex and violent history in which Christians revered the Jewish scriptures yet held Jews collectively responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus.
The origin for the scandal lay in the discovery of a ripped-up letter in a waste basket at the German Embassy in Paris.
Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.
On the 15th July 1834 the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, otherwise known as the Spanish Inquisition, was disbanded.
On the 27th January 1945, Soviet soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near the Polish city of Oświęcim.
15th August 1941: Last execution takes place at the Tower of London
15th August 2020
14th August 1980: Lech Wałęsa leads strike in Gdańsk shipyard
14th August 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018