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November 6, 1944: Hungary; Thousands of more Jews are sent Westward to Austria, to march to their deaths. Exposure, exhaustion and bullets would kill many. Wives would bury their husbands and then shot dead themselves into the same graves.
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November 1, 1944 -- Final mass gassing at Auschwitz, 73 women are murdered. The remainder of the prisoners, approximately 2,300, are deported to Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen to meet the growing slave labor demand.
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August 29, 1944: Lodz Ghetto; The last transport leaves Lodz Ghetto after two months of final liquidation of the Jewish population. Only 600 Jews remain from 76,000 who were still alive there on June 15.
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The Bronze Star Medal was established in 1944 and is awarded to a soldier who has distinguished himself or herself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service. The "V" device for valor signifies that the bronze star has been awarded for heroism.
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March 4, 1944: Warsaw; Four women were shot in the ghetto along with 80 non Jews. All their bodies, dead and wounded alike, were thrown into a building that was then lit on fire.
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On both sides of the Pacific, it was understood that 1944 marked the year the war would be won or lost. On both sides of the Pacific, war plans developed decades earlier were refined and then acted upon with vastly varying degrees of success.
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