24 April 1915: Deportation of Armenian Intellectuals
24 April 1915 is a symbolic date for commemorating the victims of the Ottoman Empire’s near total destruction of its Armenian population.
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22 April 1945: Liberation of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
On 22 April 1945 Soviet troops liberated the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, 20 miles north of Berlin. They found 3,000 unguarded, weak and ill prisoners. These were the people who were too unwell to join the forced death march, which set off from Sachsenhausen the day before liberation.
19 April 1943: The start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
19 April 1943 marks the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which Jewish inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto fought against the Nazi regime.
17 April 1975: Khmer Rouge Forces enter the capital of Cambodia
On 17 April 1975, Khmer Rouge forces entered Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia and defeated the ruling Lon Nol Army.
15 April 1945: Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
On 15 April 1945, British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp.
11 April 1945: Liberation of Buchenwald
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp was liberated on 11 April 1945 by American troops.
8 April: International Roma Day
International Roma Day is an opportunity for us all to celebrate Romani culture and raise awareness of the issues facing Roma people.
6 April 1994: The Rwandan President's plane is shot down
On 6 April 1994, a plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi, was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.
1 April 1935: Criminalisation of Jehovah's Witnesses
On 1 April 1935, the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior issued an order to local authorities to close down the Watchtower Society – criminalising the Jehovah’s Witnesses who lived in Germany at that time.
22 March 1933: Dachau Concentration Camp Established
On 22 March 1933, less than three months after Adolf Hitler was appointed German Chancellor, the first concentration camp of the Nazi regime was established in the town of Dachau, about 10 miles northwest of Munich, in Southern Germany.