* 1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.

* 1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

* 1944 – World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany Frisch was imprisoned in Bredtveit concentration camp from 17 October 1943, then in Berg concentration camp from 22 November 1943, then in Grini concentration camp from 9 December 1943 to 8 October 1944.

By 1944, there existed three divisions of the SS-TV, those being the staffs of the concentration camps proper in Germany and Austria, the labor camp system in occupied territories, and the guards and staffs of the extermination camps in Poland that were involved in the Holocaust.

By 1944, with the concentration camps fully integrated with the Waffen-SS and under the control of the WVHA, a standard practice developed to rotate SS members in and out of the camps, based on manpower needs and also to give assignments to wounded Waffen-SS officers and soldiers who could no longer serve in front-line combat duties.

* 1944 – Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.

In August 1944, she was moved to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where over 92, 000 women died.

The Seventh Cross ( 1944 ), about an escape from a Nazi concentration camp, met with critical acclaim.

Ordained in Germany in 1935, she died in Auschwitz concentration camp | Auschwitz in 1944.

From July 1944 to April 1945 Blohm & Voss used inmates of its own concentration subcamp at its shipyard in Hamburg-Steinwerder.

Matisse's student Rudolf Levy was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.

Almost all the people deported were murdered on or shortly after April 11, 1944, when their train reached Auschwitz concentration camp | Auschwitz-Birkenau.

While the number of homosexuals in German concentration camps is hard to estimate, Richard Plant gives a rough estimate of the number of men convicted for homosexuality " between 1933 to 1944 at between 50, 000 and 63, 000.

Between July 1942 and September 1944, almost every Tuesday a cargo train left for the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau ( 65 train-loads containing 60, 330 people most of whom were gassed on arrival ), Sobibór ( 19 train-loads of 34, 313 people, all of whom were killed on arrival ), Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt ( 9 train-loads of 4, 894 people some 2, 000 of whom survived the war ).

From July 1944 to January 1945, Gliwice was the location for one of the many sub-camps of the Auschwitz concentration camp

There were several enforced labor camps in Chorzów and, in years 1944 – 1945, two branches of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

On 17 December 1952, Giscard married his cousin Anne-Aymone Sauvage de Brantes, a daughter of Count François Sauvage de Brantes, who died in a concentration camp in 1944, and his wife, the former Princess Aymone de Faucigny-Lucinge.

Armenian-French writer Luiza Aslanean ( 1906-1945 ), another activist of French Resistance, was arrested among with her husband in 1944, taken to a concentration camp by Nazis and killed.

In 1944 Bloch was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp by the German occupiers where he remained until it was liberated on 11 April 1945.

On 1 October and 2 October 1944, 661 men and boys, the majority of the male population, were deported from the town and 602 of them were sent to work in concentration camps such as Neuengamme and Birkenau.

Dutch underground members Corrie and Betsie ten Boom were held at Vught in 1944, before being sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp.

In March 1944, part of the camp was redesignated as an Erholungslager (" recovery camp "), where prisoners too sick to work were brought from other concentration camps.

* 1944 – World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.

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

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

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.

Conquest's calculations excluded camp deaths before 1936 and after 1950, executions from 1939 – 1953, the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps and their deaths 1939 – 1953, the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941 – 1944 and their deaths, and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944 – 1945.

* 1885 – Christian Wirth, commandant of Belzec extermination camp ( d. 1944 )

Between October 1941 and July 1944 at least 200, 000 people were killed in the camp.

As the capital of an Axis country and a major transit point for Axis troops en route to the Eastern Front, Bucharest suffered heavy damage during World War II due to Allied bombings, and, on 23 August 1944, was the site of the royal coup which brought Romania into the Allied camp, suffering a short period of Luftwaffe bombings as well as a failed attempt by German troops to take the city by force.

Jewish prisones of German camp " Gęsiówka " liberated by Home Army during Warsaw Uprising 1944

In November 1944 West African conscripts of the French army mutinied against poor conditions at the Thiaroye camp, on the outskirts of the city.

In early 1944, a chicken ranch began operation, and in late April of the same year, the camp opened a hog farm.

During an American bombing raid on August 24, 1944 that was directed at a nearby armament factory, several bombs, including incendiaries, also fell on the camp, resulting in heavy casualties amongst the prisoners ( 2, 000 prisoners wounded & 388 killed by the raid ).

They were subjected to the same treatment and abuse as other Buchenwald prisoners until October 1944, when a change in policy saw the aviators dispatched to Stalag Luft III, a regular prisoner-of-war camp ( POW ) camp ; nevertheless, two airmen died at Buchenwald.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

The most convincing recent measurement of an anaconda was made in eastern Colombia by Roberto Lamon, a petroleum geologist of the Richmond Oil Company, and reported in 1944 by Emmett R. Dunn.

Volume 1, was completed in 1941 and published in 1944.

Volume 1 ( ( Af ) of the seventh edition of Dana's System Of Mineralogy was published in 1944 and Volume 2 ( ( Af ) in 1951 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y..

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.

In October 1944, he was appointed state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

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 discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

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.

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.

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.

* Fleming was knighted, as a Knight Bachelor, by king George VI in 1944.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol ( December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944 ) was a French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker.