2014 Event The average monthly world CO2 concentration exceeded 400 ppm in April; the U.N. has set a 450 ppm limit for all greenhouse gases to reduce climate impact; concentrations for CO2 and all greenhouse gases averaged 391 and 430 ppm, respectively, in 2011 2014 Event Beijing issues air pollution warnings, advising limited outdoor activity as particulate concentration (PM 2.5) measures 309, over 12 times the World Health Organization standard 2010 Event Israel requests that Germany arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp 1993 Event Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible 1986 Event Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize 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 1979 Death Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns 1975 Event Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz 1972 Death Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 1966 Death Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1946 Event U.S. convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death 1945 Event Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by U.S. 1945 Event Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated 1945 Event Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated 1945 Event Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed 1945 Event Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp 1945 Event U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany 1945 Event Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated 1945 Event Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated 1945 Event British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp 1945 Event U.S. troops occupy concentration camp Colditz 1945 Event Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands 1945 Event U.S. liberates Buchenwald concentration camp 1945 Event U.S. soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald" 1945 Event Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Czechoslovakia 1945 Event U.S. troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany 1945 Event Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp 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 1945 Event Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp 1944 Event Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp 1944 Event Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies 1944 Event Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp 1944 Event Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek 1944 Death Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp 1944 Event 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1944 Death Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67 1944 Event Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die 1944 Event Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established 1943 Event Outbreak attempt in Sobibor Concentration Camp 1943 Event Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens 1943 Event Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens 1943 Event 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1943 Event Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) 1943 Event Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms 1943 Event 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp 1943 Event 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught 1942 Death Jean Van Royen, Secretary-General of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63 1942 Event Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp 1942 Event 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec 1942 Event 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp 1942 Event Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported 1942 Event 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 1941 Event Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps 1941 Event Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built 1941 Event Concentration camp Amersfoort opens 1941 Event Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp 1941 Event Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp 1941 Event Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp 1941 Event IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1941 Event 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk, Poland 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 1938 Event Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria 1938 Event Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use 1937 Event Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens 1936 Event Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize 1936 Event Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens 1934 Event Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp 1934 Event SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps 1933 Event Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed 1921 Birthday Hugh Downs, born in Akron, Ohio, TV journalist, 20/20, Concentration 1912 Birthday Jura Soyfer, born in Kharkov, Ukraine, writer, political journalist, imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, wrote the Dachau song with composer Herbert Zipper 1901 Event Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony 1901 Event Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein 1885 Birthday Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement 1884 Birthday Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools 1876 Birthday Max Jacob, French writer, Concentration Camp, Le Siege de Jerusalem
