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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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