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1944
May 1944—In North Africa, the United States War Refugee Board
opens the first refugee camp. Deportation of Hungarian Jews to
Auschwitz begins.
June 1944—United States War Department refuses to bomb
railroad tracks between Hungary and Auschwitz, where twelve
thousand Jews are being sent each day to the gas chamber. The
allies are victorious on D-Day, marking the beginning of the end
for the Third Reich.
July 1944—Russians liberate the Majdanek extermination camp.
August 1944—United States War Department issues a statement
that bombing Auschwitz would divert air power from “decisive
operations elsewhere.” One hundred twenty-seven bombers drop
high-explosives on the factory areas at Auschwitz, less than five
miles from the gas chambers.
October 1944—Inmates in Auschwitz rebel; one crematorium is
blown up.
November 1944—Nazis try to hide evidence of death camps;
prisoners are deported to Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen to
meet the growing slave labor demand.
1945–1946
January 1945—Death marches to the interior of Germany begin,
costing two hundred fifty thousand Jewish lives. Swedish
diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands
of Hungarian Jews, is last seen alive with Soviet troops.
Approximately eight hundred prisoners remaining in the Lodz
ghetto (after seventy-four thousand six hundred had been
deported to Auschwitz) are liberated by Soviet troops. Soviet
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