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Auschwitz

  • 27 Jan 1945

    Soviet forces liberate Auschwitz.

  • 17 Jan 1945

    Auschwitz concentration camp evacuated 56,000 prisoners.

  • 30 Oct 1944

    Anne Frank and her sister Margot Frank were deported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen.

  • 7 Oct 1944

    The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.

  • 14 Apr 1944

    5,200 Jews from Athens arrived at Auschwitz.

  • 27 Apr 1943

    Witold Pilecki escaped Auschwitz.

  • 20 Jun 1942

    Kazimierz Piechowski and three others escape from Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • 14 Jun 1940

    Auschwitz concentration camp started operation after 728 Polish prisoners became the first to arrive.

  • 20 May 1940

    The first prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • 27 Apr 1940

    Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.