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February 2, 1943. On this date, German forces surrendered at Stalingrad on the Volga in the Soviet Union.
November 3, 1943. On this date, SS and police units implemented "Operation Harvest Festival" (also known as Aktion Erntefest).
March 13-16, 1943. On this date, SS and police authorities liquidated the Krakow ghetto.
May 15-18, 1944. On this date, German authorities deported over 7,000 Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
July 9, 1944. On this date, Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest and began his wartime rescue efforts.
June 18-22, 1944. On this date, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler's firsthand account of Auschwitz went public worldwide.
December 11, 1944. On this date, German authorities at Hartheim performed the last gassing of inmates.
April 29, 1945. On this date, US Army divisions liberated approximately 32,000 prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp.
April 2, 1945. On this date, Anthony Acevedo wrote in his diary about his experience as a prisoner of war.
August 25, 1942. On this date, George Mandel-Mantello began issuing Salvadoran citizenship papers to Jewish refugees in Nazi-occupied Europe.
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