Answer:
Here are the major events in chronological order.
August 1944 - Daniel and his family are deported from Lodz to Auschwitz- Birkenau.
November 1944 - Daniel and his father are sent from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, a concentration camp in Germany.
April 11-12, 1945 - Buchenwald is liberated by American troops.
May 8, 1945 - Germany surrenders to the Allies.