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November 25, 1944. On this date, camp authorities demolished the gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
January 17, 1945. On this date, SS units evacuated prisoners from the Auschwitz camp complex as Soviet forces approached.
February 13, 1945. On this date, Soviet forces liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
February 13, 1945. On this date, Soviet troops accepted the surrender of the last German and Hungarian troops in Budapest.
April 12, 1945. On this date, Canadian forces liberated prisoners at the Westerbork camp in the Netherlands.
April 20-21, 1945. On this date, SS guards evacuated prisoners from the Sachsenausen concentration camp in Germany.
April 25, 1945. On this date, Soviet and American troops met at Torgau, Germany.
April 30, 1945. On this date, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker.
September 2, 1945. On this date, Japan signed their surrender aboard the USS Missouri and ended World War II.
December 22, 1945. On this date, Harry S. Truman issued a directive giving US immigration preference to displaced persons.
April 11, 1945. On this date, the US Army liberated the Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen) concentration camp in Germany.
July 23, 1944. On this date, Soviet forces liberated the Lublin/Majdanek concentration camp in Poland.
November 29, 1945. On this date, the International Military Tribunal prosecution presented a film titled "The Nazi Concentration Camps."
November 21, 1945. On this date, Robert H. Jackson delivered opening statements at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.
April 23, 1945. On this date, US forces liberated the Flossenbürg camp in Germany.
April 30, 1945. On this date, Soviet forces arrived at Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany.
May 4, 1945. On this date, the SS troops evacuated approximately 9,000 prisoners from Neuengamme in advance of the British troops' approach.
May 5, 1945. On this date, US troops liberated Mauthausen concentration camp. Days before, a group of prisoners took control of Mauthausen.
April 27, 1945. On this date, US soldier Aaron A. Eiferman wrote a letter to his wife describing conditions in Kaufering IV in Germany.
May 4, 1945. On this date, the US Army liberated Gunskirchen, a subcamp of Mauthausen in Austria.
January 16, 1944. On this date, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau Jr. met to discuss the rescue of European Jews.
December 11, 1945. On this date, the film "The Nazi Plan" is shown as evidence at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
February 4-11, 1945. On this date, Allied power leaders met at Yalta in the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar order.
July 4, 1946. On this date, there was a massacre of Jews in Kielce, Poland.
October 1, 1946. On this date, the International Military Tribunal sentenced 12 Nazi officials to death.
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