Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Birkenau, Małopolska, Poland || KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau

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After a long council, albeit with plenty of alcohol Alexander was desperate to return to his queen. Although everyone advised him not to make the 8-mile journey at nightfall with a storm approaching he rode off into the night. The next morning he was found with a broken neck having been thrown off his horse.
(19 March 1286)

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KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau

Birkenau, Małopolska, Poland.

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Saturday 4th of May 1940 (x) — SS-Obersturmbannführer and longest serving commandant of Auschwitz-KZ Rudolf Höss is installed
Tuesday 1st of December 1942 (x) — The first transport of jews arrives
Sunday 9th of August 1942 (-) — Martyr and saint of the Catholic Church Edith Stein dies in the gas chambers
Saturday 27th of January 1945 (x) — The 322nd Rifle Division of the Russian Red Army liberates the Auschwitz concentration camp
The soldiers found 7.500 prisoners alive and over 600 corpses. Among items found by the Soviet soldiers were 370.000 men's suits, 837.000 women's garments, and 7.7 tonnes of human hair.
Wednesday 16th of April 1947 (-) — SS-Obersturmbannführer and longest serving commandant of Auschwitz-KZ Rudolf Höss is executed by hanging
Höss was hanged on a short drop gallows constructed specifically for that purpose, at the location of the camp Gestapo.