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1993 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible 1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize 1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint 1979 Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns 1975 Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz 1946 U.S. convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death 1945 Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by U.S. 1945 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated 1945 Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated 1945 Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed 1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp 1945 U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany 1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated 1945 Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated 1945 British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp 1945 U.S. troops occupy concentration camp Colditz 1945 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands 1945 U.S. liberates Buchenwald concentration camp 1945 U.S. soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald" 1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech) 1945 U.S. troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany 1945 Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp 1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) 1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp 1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation 1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp 1944 Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp 1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies 1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp 1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek 1944 Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp 1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1944 Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67 1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die 1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established 1943 Outbreak attempt in Sobibor Concentration Camp 1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens 1943 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens 1943 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1943 Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) 1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms 1943 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp 1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught 1942 Jean Van Royen, Sect-Gen of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63 1942 Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp 1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec 1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp 1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported 1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 1941 Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps 1941 Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built 1941 Concentration camp Amersfoort opens 1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp 1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp 1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp 1941 IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk, Poland 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 1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria 1938 Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use 1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens 1936 Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize 1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens 1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp 1934 SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps 1933 Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed 1921 Hugh Downs, born in Akron, Ohio, TV journalist, 20/20, Concentration 1901 Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony 1901 Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein 1876 Max Jacob, French writer, Concentration Camp, Le Siege de Jerusalem

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