Place in Poland

What happened to the Jews in Auschwitz

18 events, 1940 AD to 2009 AD

20th century

  1. 1940 AD First prisoner transport reaches Auschwitz-Birkenau · Auschwitz, Poland
  2. 1940 AD The first prisoners arrive at Auschwitz · Auschwitz, Poland
  3. 1941 AD First gassings at Auschwitz using Zyklon B · Auschwitz, Poland
  4. 1942 AD Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners used as slave labor at Monowitz · Auschwitz, Poland
  5. 1942 AD Birkenau Sonderkommando nearly done burning exhumed bodies · Auschwitz, Poland
  6. 1942 AD First gassing selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau · Auschwitz, Poland
  7. 1942 AD Hundreds of Jewish women and Dutch deportees gassed at Birkenau · Auschwitz, Poland
  8. 1942 AD Jewish women at Auschwitz-Birkenau chosen for medical experiments · Auschwitz, Poland
  9. 1942 AD Massacre in Budy · Auschwitz, Poland
  10. 1942 AD Over 170,000 Jews killed in one week at three camps · Belzec, Poland
  11. 1942 AD Second gas chamber operating at Auschwitz-Birkenau · Auschwitz, Poland
  12. 1942 AD Zyklon B mass murder begins at Auschwitz-Birkenau · Auschwitz, Poland
  13. 1944 AD 1944: Murder of the Last Jews in the Theresienstadt Family Camp at Auschwitz · Auschwitz, Poland
  14. 1944 AD Crematorium IV at Auschwitz destroyed in Sonderkommando uprising · Auschwitz, Poland
  15. 1944 AD November 1944: The Last Gassing at Auschwitz Takes Place · Auschwitz, Poland
  16. 1965 AD Frankfurt Auschwitz trials · Auschwitz, Poland
  17. 1965 AD Overall, only 789 individuals of the approximately 6,500 surviving SS personnel… · Auschwitz, Poland

21st century

  1. 2009 AD Kevin Myers attracted criticism for a 2009 article for the Irish Independent in… · Auschwitz, Poland

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