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Auschwitz concentration camp

German network of concentration and extermination camps in occupied Poland during World War II

17 dated entries naming Auschwitz concentration camp, drawn from 8 separate years between 1935 CE and 1989 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1935December 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.source
  • 1940May 20 – The Holocaust: The Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the German concentration camps, opens in occupied Poland, near the town of Oświęcim. From now on until January 1945, around 1.1 million people will be killed here.source
  • 1940June 14 – A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.source
  • 1941September 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.source
  • 194324 May – Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes the chief medical officer of Auschwitz.source
  • 1943May 30 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele begins his position as a medical officer in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.source
  • 1944April 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.source
  • 1944May 15–July 8 – The Holocaust: Hungarian Jews are deported to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps.source
  • 1944The steamer Tanais, also known as Danae (Δανάη), carrying 600 Cretans (including around 300 Greek Jews) on the first leg of the journey to Auschwitz, is sunk, with no known survivors, off Santorini.source
  • 1944The Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving 3 days later.source
  • 1944October 2 – Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher (gassed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (born 1898)source
  • 1944October 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.source
  • 1944October 10 – The Holocaust/Porajmos: 800 Romani children are systematically murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp.source
  • 194410 October — Holocaust: Porajmos: 800 Romani children are systematically murdered at the Auschwitz death camp.source
  • 1945January 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.source
  • 1985June 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.source
  • 1989September 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.source

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