[Photo is of children before they are executed.]October 1944 - Some 15,000 Jews are deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. The Nazis begin death marches from Auschwitz [in Poland] to camps in Germany.
* October 4 - All of the women and children sent from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz are gassed upon arrival.
* October 6 - The Soviet Army moves into Hungary.
* October 6-7 - Jews who are forced to transport gassed corpses to crematoria at Auschwitz turn on SS guards using stones, picks, crowbars, hammers, and axes. They blow up four of the crematoria with explosives smuggled into the camp. A SS man is thrown alive into a furnace by Russian POWs. The SS fight back with machine guns and hand grenades. All the Jews are killed.
* October 13 - Soviet forces free Riga, Latvia.
* October 20 - The Nazis at Auschwitz burn documents that contain information about prisoners and their treatment.
* October 21 - U.S. troops take Aachen, Germany.
* October 30 - Anne Frank is transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen.
* November 1944 - Jewish paratroopers from Palestine are dropped behind German lines. In Hungary, the government agrees to set up an "international Jewish ghetto" consisting of 72 buildings where Jews will be protected under the authority of the Swiss.
* November 4 - Soviet troops take Szolnok, Hungary.
* November 8 - The Stern Gang resistance fighters assassinate Lord Walter Moyne, the British minister of state in the Middle East.
(Throughout the month of November various Jewish paratroopers are caught and executed by the Nazis).
* November 21 - Allied troops take Saarburg, Germany.
December 1944 - France conducts a "Week of the Absent" to honor innocent people still held by the Nazis. Pollster Elmo Roper says that anti-Semitism is very strong in U.S. urban areas.
* December 11 - At Auschwitz III, Jewish slave-laborers celebrate Chanukah quietly.
* December 6 - The Ardennes Forest - Along a 40-mile front, 300,000 German troops gamble everything to attack the American First and Ninth armies, which consisted of many inexperienced, front-line soldiers. This comes to be known as the "Battle of the Bulge" because early German gains created a "bulge" in American lines.
* December 17 - The SS murder 86 American POWs in Belgium.
* December 26 - The German offensive in the Ardennes Forest stalls. The Germans fail to reach their goal of taking Antwerp, Belgium. About 250,000 German troops have been killed, wounded, or captured, and some 1400 German tanks and heavy assault guns have been destroyed. Germany will be on the defensive until the end of the war.
To be continued...
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