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| 1942 |
| | | A Jewish girl in Amsterdam, Anne Frank, is given a diary for her thirteenth birthday | |
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| 1942 from March |
| | | German industrial enterprises are moved from the vulnerable Ruhr valley to the slave labour facilities of Auschwitz | |
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| 1943 April 19 |
| | | Jews in Warsaw resist a fierce German onslaught for a month before their ghetto is finally destroyed | |
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| 1944 September |
| | | Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, saves thousands of Jews from extermination | |
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| 1945 |
| | | [1939-1945] - by the end of the war the total number of Jews killed by the Nazis is around 6 million | |
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| 1947 |
| | | In granting independence to India, Britain partitions the subcontinent along sectarian lines into Pakistan and the republic of India | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Muslims proclaim an independent state in west Kashmir, defying the wishes of the maharaja | |
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| c. 1947 |
| | | An Arab boy, herding goats in the Qumran desert, finds the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The World Council of Churches is established in Amsterdam – a significant step in the ecumenical movement | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The Muslim Brotherhood carries out acts of terrorism against the Egyptian authorities and British troops | |
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