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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