{"slug": "auschwitz-concentration-camp", "label": "Auschwitz concentration camp", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7341", "qid": "Q7341", "description": "German network of concentration and extermination camps in occupied Poland during World War II", "entries": 13, "years": 8, "span": [1935, 1989], "span_label": ["1935 CE", "1989 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "brazil", "label": "Brazil", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1935, "year_label": "1935 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 27", "text": "December 27 – In Germany, Regina Jonas becomes the first woman ever to receive semikhah (ordination) as a rabbi within Judaism. She will be killed in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 and the next such ordination will be in 1972.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370722923#December", "title": "1935", "revid": 1370722923, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "June", "text": "A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#June", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "September 3", "text": "September 3 – The Holocaust: SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch first uses the pesticide Zyklon B to execute Soviet prisoners of war en masse at Auschwitz concentration camp; eventually it will be used to kill about 1.2 million people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372706275#September", "title": "1941", "revid": 1372706275, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 10", "text": "April 10 – The Holocaust: Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Auschwitz concentration camp; on April 25–27 they prepare the Vrba–Wetzler report, one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the extermination of Jews in the camp.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#April", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 15", "text": "May 15–July 8 – The Holocaust: Hungarian Jews are deported to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#May", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 10", "text": "October 10 – The Holocaust/Porajmos: 800 Romani children are systematically murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#October", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 2", "text": "October 2 – Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher (gassed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1898)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#October", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Deaths › October"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 7", "text": "October 7 – The Holocaust: Members of the Sonderkommando – a special detachment of Jewish prisoners who are forced to empty the gas chambers after a mass gassing and undertake the burning of the bodies – organises the only armed revolt that ever takes place in Auschwitz concentration camp. They succeed in destroying the gas chambers and Crematorium IV. The Waffen-SS murders more than 450 prisoners who take part in the revolt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#October", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "September", "text": "The Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving 3 days later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#September", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "January 18", "text": "January 18 – The Holocaust: The SS begins the evacuation of Auschwitz concentration camp. Nearly 60,000 prisoners, mostly Jews, are forced to march to other locations in Germany; as many as 15,000 die. The 7,000 too sick to move are left without supplies being distributed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371513862#January", "title": "1945", "revid": 1371513862, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – Rudolf Höss, German commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (executed) (b. 1900)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#April", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Deaths › April"}}, {"year": 1985, "year_label": "1985 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 6", "text": "June 6 – The remains of Josef Mengele, the physician notorious for Nazi human experimentation on inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp, buried in 1979 under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, are exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369963057#June", "title": "1985", "revid": 1369963057, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1989, "year_label": "1989 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19 – The Catholic Church calls for removal of the Carmelite convent located near the former Auschwitz concentration camp, whose presence has offended some Jewish leaders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557705#September", "title": "1989", "revid": 1369557705, "section": "Events › September"}}]}