April 6, 1944:
The Nazis raided the Children's Home of Izieu,
France.
May 15, 1944:
The Nazis started deporting over 400,000 Hungarian Jews to
Auschwitz. Gassing and cremation of 12,000 Jews a day.
June 6, 1944:
D-Day - Allied invasion at Normandy.
July 20, 1944:
Group of German officers attempted to assassinate Hitler. The
attempt failed.
August 4, 1944:
Anne
Frank and her family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam and
sent to the deathcamps.
August 6, 1944:
The Lodz Ghetto, the last in Poland, is liquidated with 60,000 Jews
sent to Auschwitz.
September, 1944:
Oscar Schindler's factory was closed. Schindler
made his famous list of Jews to take them to Brunnlitz,
Czechoslovakia.
October 30, 1944:
Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
November 1944:
Oscar Schindler rescued 300 Jewish women
from Auschwitz-Birkenau.
November 25, 1944:
Himmler ordered the crematories at Auschwitz dismantled, demolished
and buried to destroy the evidence. Pits filled with human ash were
covered and planted with grass.