A Historic Survey
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Spring
1940
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June 4, 1940
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- Arrival of the first
prisoners' transport (728 Poles)
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March 1, 1941
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- Reichsführer-SS
Heinrich Himmler visits
Auschwitz and gives order to commander Höß to
enlarge the camp. Auschwitz I should seize 30.000
prisoners, Auschwitz II (Birkenau) 100.000..
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August 1941
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- Heinrich Himmler orders
the mass extermination of Jews in Auschwitz
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September 1941
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- First gassing with
caclone B gas in Auschwitz: Soviet POW'S and 298 sick
inmates were killed.
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October 8, 1941
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- Birkenau camp started
to be erected.
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January 20, 1942
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January 1942
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- Birkenau is set to be
the place of mass murder; in the beginning a
reconstructed farm house was used by the SS to gas
Jews.
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March 22 to June 25, 1943
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- Four new crematories
with gas chambers were put into operation.
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November 20, 1943
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- Reconstruction of
Auschwitz
- Auschwitz I - main camp: camp for men
- Auschwitz II - Birkenau: womens' and men's
camp, mass extermination in the gas chambers;
- Auschwitz III - subcamps at the industrial
and agricultural plants such like the Buna-factory in
Monowitz
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May 2- Sep.21, 1944
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- Extermination of
Hungarian Jews:
between May 2 and July 9, 1944, 437.402 Jews from Hungary
were deported to Auschwitz
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August 1944
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- D155.000 people are
imprisoned.
The SS starts liquidating the camps.
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October 10, 1944
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November 1944
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- The gassings in
Auschwitz are being suspended.
Heinrich Himmler gives order to disassemble the killing
institutions and to destroy the gas chambers and
crematories
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January 17, 1945
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- DThe evacuation of
Auschwitz and all subcamps starts.
All prisoners who seem to be able to move are sent to a
so-called "Death March" towards the West. At the last
roll-call, 66.020 prisoners are counted in the KZ and all
subcamps.
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January 27, 1945
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- Liberation of Auschwitz
by Soviet troops. They find some 5.000 prisoners left
behind but unable to move.
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