April 30: Hitler commits suicide in Berlin bunker
May 8: War ends with Germany’s unconditional surrender
August: Ben joins young Zionists in Feldafing, Germany.
November: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials begin
December: Reunites with sister Lola and her husband Mechel
February-March: Ben and Isaac were forced to walk the infamous 3-week Death March to Buchenwald. Upon arrival, Isaac and Ben showered, ate a little soup and after one-night rest, they hopped into a cable car train.
March, Dachau – Ben and Isaac were on the notorious ill-fated death train from Buchenwald to Dachau. Of 3,000 inmates that walked onto the train, only 18 walked off at arrival to Dachau. Ben and Isaac were one of them. Arrival – April 1945. Two
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.
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