1997 Event 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund 1996 Event Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City 1996 Event Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day 1992 Event Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington D.C. 1990 Event 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss 1986 Event Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize 1985 Event West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust 1951 Event Israeli Knesset officially designated April 13 as Holocaust Day 1944 Event Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz 1932 Birthday Aharon Appelfeld, born near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, Israeli novelist, Holocaust survivor, Hebrew-language author with modernistic, metaphorical writing style 1930 Birthday Rosemary Harris, Ashby Suffolk England, actress, Holocaust 1929 Birthday T[homas] P[atrick] McKenna, Ireland, actor, Rivals, Holocaust 1928 Birthday Tom Lantos, born in Hungary, Holocaust survivor, Member, U.S. House of Representatives from California 1920 Birthday George Rose, Bicester England, actor, Beacon Hill, Holocaust 1919 Birthday Sam Wanamaker, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal 1900 Birthday Leo Smit, born in Amsterdam, Holland, composer, killed in Poland during the Holocaust
