1944

June 6, “D-Day”: Allies land in Normandy, France
July: Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg saves nearly 33,000 Hungarian Jews
August: Anne Frank and family are arrested in Amsterdam, and sent to Auschwitz
October: Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommandos (Jewish slave laborers) revolt, destroying Crematory IV
November: Nazis force 25,000 Jews to walk over 100 miles in rain and snow from Budapest to the Austrian border, followed by a second forced-march of 50,000 persons, ending at Mauthausen
Oskar Schindler saves 1200 Jews.