• March 1944: Nazi troops occupy Hungary.
• May 1944: Beginning of deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz.
• July 1944: Soviet troops liberate Majdanek.
• Summer 1944: Highest number of daily victims in Auschwitz. The crematoriums can't handle the number of bodies that need to be burned.
• 28 October 1944: Last transport of Jews (from Theresienstadt) to Auschwitz.
• November 1944: Himmler orders the destruction of the crematoriums in Auschwitz.