3-19-44
Germany invades Hungary.

4-10-44
Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from Auschwitz and carry detailed information about the death camp to outside world.

4-14-44
First transport of Jews from Athens to Auschwitz.

5-15 to 7-8-44
Deportation of 438,000 Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz.

6-4-44
Allies enter Rome.

6-6-44
Start of the Allied invasion in Normandy.

6-23-44
Start of the Soviet offensive.

7-20-44
Soviet troops liberate concentration camp Majdanek.

7-25-44
Ghetto in Kovno, Lithuania, evacuated.

8-6-44
Deportation to Germany of 27,000 Jews from camps east of the Vistula River.

8-23-44
Holding camp Drancy (Paris) liberated. Rumania capitulates.

9-5-44
Lodz Ghetto evacuated.

9-11-44
British troops arrive in Holland.

9-13-44
Soviet troops on the Slovakian border.

Sept 44
Transport of all Jews in Dutch camps into Germany. New deportations from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. Last transport from France to Auschwitz.

9-14-44
American troops on the German border.

9-23-44
Massacre of Jews in the concentration camp in Kluga, Estonia. Resumption of deportations from Slovakia.

10-7-44
Escape attempts in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

10-18-44
Hitler orders the establishment of the "Volkssturms" (mobilization of all men from 16 to 60).

10-23-44
Paris is liberated by Allied armies.

End Oct-44
The survivors of concentration camp Plaszow (Krakow) transported to Auschwitz.

10-31-44
14,000 Jews transported from Slovakia to Auschwitz.

11-2-44
Gassings in Auschwitz terminated.

Nov-44
Trial of the leaders of the extermination camp Majdanek held in Lublin.

11-3/8-44
Soviet troops near Budapest.

11-18-44
Eichmann deports 38,000 Jews from Budapest to the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Ravensbruck and other camps.

11-26-44
Himmler orders the destruction of the crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as Nazis try to hide evidence of the death camps.