Timeline of the Holocaust: 1943 - 1945
February 2 - German army's advance halted at Stalingrad, Russia.
April 19 - Jews in the Warsaw ghetto revolt. Jews fight until early June, when Nazis burn the entire ghetto to ashes, killing rebels and innocents alike.
June - Nazis order destruction of all ghettos in Poland and Russia. The inhabitants of these ghettos, facing extermination, begin armed resistance.
August 2 - Prisoners of the Treblinka camp stage an armed revolt.
Fall - Large ghettos in Minsk, Vilna, and Riga destroyed. The Danish people begin their rescue of Danish Jews.
October 14 - Armed revolt breaks out at the Sobibor death camp.
March 19 - German troops occupy Hungary.
May 15 - Hungarian Jews are sent to concentration camps.
June 6 - Allies invade France.
July 24 - The concentration camp at Maidanek is liberated by the Russian army.
Summer - The ghettos of Kovno, Shavli, and Lodz are destroyed. Their inhabitants are sent to concentration camps.
October 7 - Auschwitz inmates revolt.
October 31 - All remaining Slovakian Jews are sent to Auschwitz.
November 2 - All Jews remaining in the model ghetto of Theresienstadt are sent to Auschwitz.
November 8 - As the Nazi empire collapses, death marches begin. 40,000 Jews are marched from Budapest to Austria, though many fewer will reach Austria alive.
January 17 - German troops abandon Auschwitz. A death march toward Germany begins."
April 6 - Buchenwald prisoners begin four-day death march.
April - Russian army enters Germany from the East, other Allied troops enter from the west.
April 30 - Hitler, hiding in his underground bunker, commits suicide.
May 7 - Germany surrenders, ending the war in Europe.
August 15 - Japan surrenders to the Allied Powers, ending World War II.
November 20 - Nuremburg War Crimes Trials begin.