October 2, 1944:
- October 1944: "About 15,000 Jews are deported from the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto to Auschwitz.
- "The Germans initiate death marches of prisoners from Auschwitz to camps in Germany, including Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, and Sachsenhausen.
- "At the Stutthof, Germany, concentration camp, executions of Jewish prisoners begin. Initial killings are carried out by assembling inmates with their backs to an infirmary wall with the stated purpose of medical examinations.
Slits in the wall behind the heads of each inmate allow a pistol shot to be fired into their brains from the adjoining room. - "Some 150 twins, most of them children, remain in Dr. Mengele's medical block at Auschwitz-Birkenau."
"The concentration camp at Klooga, Estonia, located in the northern part of the country, was established in 1943.
On September 19, 1944, as Soviet forces approached the camp, the Nazis fell back on what was becoming a standard response to imminent liberation: hurried, calculated murder.
Inmates were taken in groups into nearby woods and executed.
About 2,400 of the camp's Jewish inmates and approximately 100 Soviet prisoners of war were killed this way.
Among the victims were this pregnant woman and her unborn child."
"When the Red Army liberated the camp on September 28, only 85 inmates were found alive, including the four Russians pictured here."
"An energetic Nazi organizer in the Saar-Palatinate since 1925, Josef Bürckel rose through the ranks to become Gauleiter (Nazi Party leader) for the region.
Following the Anschluss (Annexation) of Austria in 1938, Bürckel became Gauleiter of Vienna and Reichstatthalter (governor) of Austria.
He worked diligently to further unification with Germany, including promoting anti-Jewish decrees and seizing Jewish property.
He died, probably by his own hand, on September 28, 1944."