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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.

 

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