1993 Death Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84 1987 Death Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67 1982 Event Pope John Paul II canonizes Reverend M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint 1975 Event Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz 1965 Event Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences 1963 Event Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins 1960 Event Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in West Germany 1945 Event Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) 1945 Event Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp 1945 Event Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation 1944 Event Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums 1944 Event Auschwitz begins gassing inmates 1944 Event Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen 1944 Event Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau 1944 Event Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums 1944 Event 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz 1944 Event Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz 1944 Event Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz 1944 Event Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz 1944 Event Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins 1944 Death Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz 1944 Death Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz 1944 Event Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz 1944 Event Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz 1944 Event 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork, Netherlands 1944 Event 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz 1944 Event 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz 1944 Event 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz 1944 Event 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1944 Death David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52 1944 Death ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz 1943 Event Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz 1943 Event 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1943 Death Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies 1943 Event Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz 1943 Death Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist, dies in Auschwitz 1943 Death Oskar Haks, Czechoslovakian marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz 1943 Death Frieda Reiss, French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz 1942 Event 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz 1942 Death Marcel Barger, Streliskie, cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz 1942 Event Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions 1942 Death Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, actor, dies in Auschwitz at 63 1942 Event 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz 1942 Event 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz 1942 Event 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz 1942 Event 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps 1941 Event 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) 1941 Event Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp 1941 Event IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1940 Event Auschwitz concentration camp opens, 3 million killed there 1940 Event Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz 1940 Event Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1940 Event Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice 1934 Birthday Adolf Muschg, born in Zollikon, canton of Zurich, writer, German language and literature professor, wrote provocative works, including If Auschwitz is in Switzerland
