The Times-Picayune, September 5, 1944, p. 1
September 4, 1944 – The Western Allies liberate Brussels. Jeannine Burk, in hiding for over two years, is eleven days shy of her fifth birthday.
The Times-Picayune , September 5, 1944 – ALLIES DRIVE INTO NETHERLANDS; BRUSSELS, ANTWERP LIBERATED, Swift Advances Traps Germans Left in Rocket Coast Area, (AP) p. 1 (front page)
The Times-Picayune, September 5, 1944 – ALLIES DRIVE INTO NETHERLANDS; BRUSSELS, ANTWERP LIBERATED, Swift Advances Traps Germans Left in Rocket Coast Area, (AP) p. 1 (column)
The Times-Picayune , September 5, 1944 – NAZI FLIGHT, p. 2
The Times-Picayune , September 5, 1944 – ENTER HOLLAND, p. 2
The Times-Picayune, September 5, 1944 – Roosevelt Hails Belgian Devotion, (AP) p. 3
VIDEO
Jeannine Burk: Reunion with Mother and Sister
November 1944 – Siggy Boraks is sent from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Kaufering concentration camp in southern Germany.
VIDEO
Siggy Boraks: Death Commando at Kaufering
1945
January 18, 1945 – Warsaw is liberated by the Red Army. Anne Levy and her sister Lila Millen have survived four years in the Polish capital.
The Times-Picayune, January 18, 1945 – NAZIS FLEEING REDS ON 250 MILE FRONT, Warsaw Taken in Vast Drive, Speeds Foe’s Retreat From Poland, (AP) p. 1 (front page)
The Times-Picayune, January 18, 1945 – NAZIS FLEEING REDS ON 250 MILE FRONT, Warsaw Taken in Vast Drive, Speeds Foe’s Retreat From Poland, (AP) p. 1 (column)
VIDEO
Anne Levy: Return to Lodz
The Fall of Budapest
January-February 1945 – Isaac Niederman survives the last months of the war in one of Wallenberg’s “safe houses” in Budapest while Hungarian Nazis (Arrow Cross) roam the city slaughtering Jews.
VIDEO
Isaac Niederman: Last Months in Budapest and Liberation by Russians
The Times-Picayune , February 14, 1945 – ALLIES REND WALL BUDAPEST CLEARED, Reds List 110,000 Captured, 49,000 Slain in Siege, (AP) p. 1 (front page)
The Times-Picayune , February 14, 1945 – ALLIES REND WALL BUDAPEST CLEARED, Reds List 110,000 Captured, 49,000 Slain in Siege, (AP) p. 1 (column)
The Times-Picayune , February 14, 1945 – BUDAPEST TAKEN, p. 3
The Times-Picayune , February 14, 1945 – Editorial, Capture of Budapest, p. 8