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KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau

Birkenau, Małopolska, Poland.

Related events:

  1. Saturday 4th of May 1940 (x) SS-Obersturmbannführer and longest serving commandant of Auschwitz-KZ Rudolf Höss is installed

  2. Tuesday 1st of December 1942 (x) The first transport of jews arrives

  3. Sunday 9th of August 1942 (-) Martyr and saint of the Catholic Church Edith Stein dies in the gas chambers

  4. 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.

  5. 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.