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The capitol and cultural center of Hungary, Budapest had a Jewish population of approximately 200,000 before the outbreak of World War II. Despite the fact that Hungary was allied with Nazi Germany, the Jewish community in Budapest was relatively safe until country was occupied by the Nazis in March 1944. Between March and July 1944, provincial Hungarian Jews were forced into ghettos and deported to concentration camps, leaving only the Jews of Budapest, who were concentrated into designated buildings throughout the city. In late 1944, some 70,000 Jews were forced on a death march from Budapest to labor camps in Austria and Germany. Thousands were killed or perished along the way. The Jews remaining in Budapest were moved to a ghetto. In January 1945, just weeks before the city’s liberation by Soviet troops on February 13, 1945, some 20,000 Jews from the ghetto were shot by members of the Hungarian fascist party, the Arrow Cross, on the banks of the Danube.

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Today located in Belarus near the border with Poland, the city of Brest [formerly Brest-Litovsk] has been alternately claimed by Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus. After World War I, it was ceded to Poland until its occupation by the Soviet Union in 1939. It was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941-1944.

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On the morning of December 7, 1941 the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii was attacked by Imperial Japanese forces by air and sea. In the wake of the attack, the United States entered World War II on the side of the Allies, formally declaring war on Japan on December 8, 1941, and on the other Axis posers Germany and Italy on December 11.