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Auschwitz


1993 Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84

1987 Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67

1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint

1975 Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz

1965 Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences

1963 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins

1960 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR

1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)

1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp

1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation

1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums

1944 Auschwitz begins gassing inmates

1944 Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen

1944 Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau

1944 Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums

1944 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz

1944 Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz

1944 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz

1944 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins

1944 Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz

1944 Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz

1944 Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz

1944 Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz

1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork, Netherlands

1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz

1944 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz

1944 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz

1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1944 David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52

1944 ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz

1943 Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz

1943 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1943 Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies

1943 Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz

1943 Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist, dies in Auschwitz

1943 Oskar Hˆks, Czech marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz

1943 Frieda Reiss, French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz

1942 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz

1942 Marcel Barger, [Streliskie], cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz

1942 Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions

1942 Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, actor, dies in Auschwitz at 63

1942 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz

1942 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz

1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz

1942 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps

1941 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)

1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp

1941 IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens, 3 million killed there

1940 Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz

1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice



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