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Moishe gets expelled from Hungary
'http://sternmass9.blogspot.com/2012_03_04_archive.html'
One day the Hungarian police suddenly appeared and took all foreign Jews out of the country to where they were born. -
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Stein from Antwerp.
Stein in antwerpElie's Cousin's husband got deported to Auschwitz in 1942 and met up with Elie and his father. -
Roosevelt and the Japs.
Teddy RooseveltRoosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, which allows the internment of Japanese Americans. -
First Black baseball players
Jackie RobinsonTwo black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out.
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Moishe the Beadle
Moishe the BeadleMoishe the beadle was being his normal self. The Joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah. He spoke only of what he had seen. People decide not to believe his tales and refuse to listen. Jake Marino -
Elie is transfered to Auschitwz-I
AuschwitzElie and his father leaves Birkenau and goes to Auschwitz 1, which is a labor camp. -
Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
LiningradOn this day, Soviet forces permanently break the Leningrad siege line, ending the almost 900-day German-enforced containment of the city, which cost hundreds of thousands of Russian lives. -
World War II
Two hundred and seventy inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans. Jake Marino -
Germans are almost defeated
GermanySplended news from the Russian Front. There could no longer be any doubt: Germany would be defeated. It was only a matterof time, months or weeks, perhaps. Jake Marino -
George Lucas is Born (Brandon T.)
www.thepeoplehistory.com/1944.html#popular_culture
George Lucas, famous creator and co-creator of the films "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" is born on this day to George Walton Lucas Senior and Dorothy Ellinore Bomberger. -
Elie's Deporting from Home (Brandon T.)
www.ushmm.org/remember/days-of-remembrance/past-days-of-remembrance/2004-days-of-remembrance/elie-wiesel(Note: date of actual deporting is not specified; changed to the fourteenth to cooperate with other date made by same date maker)
From the town (Sighet)in which his childhood took place, Elie Wiesel his forced to travel into a new destination. Many children he sees are crying for water, and his surroundings include the belongings of so many Jews strewn carelessly on the ground. -
Elie Wiesel and his family depart for Auschwitz (David Griffith)
ElieElie Wiesel and his family are called to go on the cattle car that is going to Auschwitz. -
The Americans are only 10 miles from Nazi occupied Rome.
The Massacre The Fosse Ardeatine massacre was a mass killing carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome against the SS Police Regiment Bozen. -
Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German secret ploice
Anne FrankThe secret police approach the warehouseman Van Maaren who points in silence, indicating upstairs. They enter the building and go directly to the office. Victor Kugler must escort them to the Secret Annex. The people in hiding have been betrayed…
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The Kammando
KammandoIt was on a Sunday morning. Our Kommando was not required to work that day. Only Idek would not hear of staying in the
camp. We had to go to the depot. This sudden enthusiasm for
work astonished us. At the depot, Idek entrusted us to Franek,
saying, "Do what you like. But do something. Or else, you'll hear from me… " Jake Marino -
Elie gets whipped
Elie gets whippedI felt the sweat running down my back. "A-7713!" I stepped forward. "A crate!" he ordered. They brought a crate. "Lie down on it! On your belly!" I obeyed. I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip. "One!…Two!…" he was counting. He took his time between lashes. Only the first really hurt. I heard him count: 57 Jake Marino -
First suicide airplane
Kamikaze airplane The first suicide air (Kamikaze) attacks occur against U.S. warships in Leyte Gulf. By the end of the war, Japan will have sent an estimated 2,257 aircraft. "The only weapon I feared in the war," Adm. Halsey will say later. -
The kid is hung
Kid is HungAll of the jews watch as the nazis hang a little boy. the little boy is to light so he hangs by his neck, suffering. This goes on for about 30 minutes until the little boy finally dies. Jake Marino -
U.S. deliver an Atomic bomb
Atomic bomb droppedThe U.S. Army Air Force begins preparations for dropping the Atomic Bomb by establishing the 509th Composite Group to operate the B-29s that will deliver the bomb. Jake Marino -
Snow Marches
Death Marches startOur turn was coming; Block 53...Block 55... "Block 57, forward! March!" It snowed on and on. Elie and his dad had to go on death marches through ice cold Poland. Some people died just on the march. Jake Marino -
Shlomo Wiesel is dieing
Shlomo WieselShlomo Wiesel is Dieing. He Lays there thirsty and asks his son for some water. Elie knows that the water is bad for him, but he does as he is told and gives his father water. Jake Marino -
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Death Marches continued
Death marches continueElie and his father had to go on death marches throughout icey cold poland. Death marches refer to the forcible movements of prisoners in Nazi Germany. Jake Marino -
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Japanese vs Crocodiles
Japs vs crocs 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days Jake Marino -
Yamato and Destroyers are sunk
YamatoUS planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato & four destroyers were sunk. Jake Marino -
The explosions of the Camps
Explosions of the CampsThe camp of Buchenwald is being destroyed. The Nazis are lining up the Jews and are shooting them down. Elie went back to his block. Jake Marino -
US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
Project DianaProject Diana, named for the Roman moon goddess Diana, was an experimental project of the US Army Signal Corps in 1946 to bounce radio signals off the moon and receive the reflected signals. This was the first experiment in radar astronomy and the first attempt to actively probe another celestial body. Jake Marino -
" Madame don't you recognize me?"
French Lady"I don't know you, sir."
"In 1944, you were in Poland, in Buna, weren't you?"
"Yes, but…"
"You worked in a depot, a warehouse for electrical parts…"
"Yes," she said, looking troubled. And then, after a moment ofsilence: "Wait…I do remember…" Jake Marino -
UMNO is created.
UMNOThe United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). Malaysia's largest political party; a founding member of the National Front coalition, which has played a dominant role in Malaysian politics since independence. Jake Marino -
Meeting Meir again
Meir Katz"Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize m e … Y o u ' re killingyour father… I have bread…for you too… for you too…" Elie meets up with Meir again. A guy he hasn't seen in a long time. Jake Marino
