* 1944 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.

In a letter to Hayek in 1944, Popper stated, " I think I have learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski.

* 1944 – The first surgery ( on a human ) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

But his first all-out noir was Phantom Lady ( 1944 ), for staff producer Joan Harrison, Universal's first female executive and Alfred Hitchcock's former secretary and script assistant.

* Michael Alfred Peszke, Battle for Warsaw, 1939 – 1944, East European Monographs, 1995, ISBN 978-0-88033-324-5.

She was the third and youngest child of Anna Lovisa ( née Karlsson, 1872 – 1944 )— a homemaker and later worked at a jam factory — and Karl Alfred Gustafsson ( 1871 – 1920 ), a laborer.

On June 24, 1980, he was married again, to Robyn Smith ( born August 14, 1944 ), a jockey 45 years his junior, who rode for Alfred G. Vanderbilt II and was herself, on the cover of Sports Illustrated on July 31, 1972.

Berthold Alfred Maria Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg ( born 15 March 1905 in Stuttgart — executed 10 August 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German aristocrat, lawyer and conspirator in the 20 July plot of 1944, along with his brother, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, an army colonel.

* Alfred Reed's Russian Christmas Music ( 1944 )

Other notable film roles included Waterloo Road ( 1944 ), Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright ( 1950 ), Folly to be Wise ( 1953 ), and An Inspector Calls ( 1954 ).

Two early recruits to the BFC: SS-Mann Kenneth Berry and SS-Sturmmann Alfred Minchin, with German officers, April 1944

File: BFCgroup. jpg | SS-Mann Kenneth Berry and SS-Sturmmann Alfred Minchin, with German officers, April 1944

Alfred Emanuel " Al " Smith ( December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944 ) was an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times and was the Democratic U. S. presidential candidate in 1928.

** 3 March 1938 – 3 September 1944 Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael ( 1882 – 1969 )

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

Leybourne and Alfred Vance, also known as The Great Vance, have always been seen as rivals, an opinion amplified by the 1944 film Champagne Charlie.

Lifeboat ( 1944 ) is an American war film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck.

As well as 1944 Academy Award nominations for " Best Black and White Cinematography " for Glen MacWilliams, " Best Original Story " for John Steinbeck, and " Best Director " for Alfred Hitchcock, Lifeboat received other award considerations.

* Alfred E. Smith ( 1873 – 1944 ), Governor of New York State and 1928 U. S. Presidential candidate

Gustave Daniel Alfred Biéler DSO MBE ( 26 March 1904 – 5 September 1944 ) was a Special Operations Executive agent during World War II.

Amongst the Allied military officers executed at Flossenbürg were Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) agent Gustave Daniel Alfred Biéler ( executed 6 September 1944 ).

These were The Seven Journeys ( 1944 )' 2ND Poems ( 1945 ), The Voyages of Alfred Wallis ( 1948 ) and The White Threshold ( 1949 ).

Schwartz and Weisinger also founded the Solar Sales Service literary agency ( 1934 – 1944 ) where Schwartz represented such writers as Alfred Bester, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and H. P. Lovecraft, including some of Bradbury's first published work and Lovecraft's last.

* Tarski, Alfred ( 1944 ), " The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics ", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 4 ( 3 ), 341 – 376.

Dr. Taussig did extensive work on anoxemia, or blue baby syndrome, which led to the development of a pioneering cardiac surgical procedure for infants called the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt, first performed by Taussig and Dr. Alfred Blalock on an 11-month old baby girl on November 29, 1944.

Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

Between 1944 and 1947 Helion had a series of one-man shows -- at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in New York and in Paris -- of his new realistic pictures.

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

But the continuing charm of the other children -- Sally in 1940 and Jack in 1944 -- and all John's success at his work only made Edythe's dizziness and general uselessness more glaring.

Americium was first produced in 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.

The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.

Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

* 1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40, 000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.

* 1944 – Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

In August 1944 at Mortain, stout defense and counterattacks against the German flanks by American and Canadian forces closed the Falaise pocket.

" at Civic Auditorium in Oakland, California, in January 1944.

Though the article was signed pseudonymously by " X ," it was well known at the time that the true author was George F. Kennan, the deputy chief of mission of the United States to the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, under ambassador W. Averell Harriman.

He said of the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 1944 ): " Those who consumed human flesh, or dealt with the human liver trading from dissecting rooms ... were accounted as the political criminals ..." And of the building of Northern Railway Prisoners Camp (" SevZhelDorLag ") Solzhenitsyn reports, " An ordinary hard working political prisoner almost could not survive at that penal camp.

Curium was first intentionally produced and identified in July 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.

Upon returning to New York on April 8, 1944, he married Dr. Myra Adele Logan, an intern at the Harlem Hospital.

The heads of government of five members of the Commonwealth of Nations at the 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers ' Conference.

However, due to Eisenhower's persistence, the pivotal supply port at Antwerp was successfully, albeit belatedly, opened in late 1944, and victory became a more distinct probability.

* 1944 – World War II: Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U. S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.

* 1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge – German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: " Nuts!

Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday.

He also served as Prime Minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times served as foreign minister and defence minister as well.