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The End of the War 1944-1945 June 6, 1944 - On D-Day, Allied forces land in France. July 23, 1944 - Soviet troops liberate Majdanek, the first death camp freed. Though journalists visit its gas chambers, the camp receives little world attention. November 18, 1944 - Hungarian Nazis start death marches to Germany and plan a ghetto in Budapest. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and others work to save remnants of Hungarian Jewry. January 1945 - Abba Kovner and others establish Bricha (Flight), a secret organization that smuggles Jewish survivors to Palestine. January 18, 1945 - Germans begin evacuating Auschwitz, forcing 66,000 on a death march. At least 15,000 die. Some 7,000 sick and starving prisoners left behind are liberated by the Soviets. April 11, 1945 - American troops liberate Buchenwald. British enter Bergen-Belsen three days later. In both overcrowded camps, many of the weakest die even after liberation.  |
