Gates to Auschwitz

By mohney

  • First Transport

    The first transport of Polish political prisoners arrive at Auschwitz

  • Invasion

    Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • Gassing

    575 sick and disable inmates at Auschwitz are selected for gassing

  • Expansion

    Plans of the new camp extension at Birkenau camp are altered where over 10,000 Soviet prisoner of war arrived to build the new ground

  • Deportation

    The first German Jews are deported to Eastern Europe

  • Silesian Jews

    The first large-scale gassing of Silesian Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau takes place

  • Crematorium

    The new crematoria are put into operation at Auschwitz-Birkenau

  • Experimentations

    Josef Mengele joins Auschwitz as camp phusician and begins to carry out experiments on inmates and twins

  • Broken Freedom

    A train brokered directly between Eichmann and Jewish organisers, leading 1,684 Jews to freedom

  • Liquidation

    The Gypsy camp at Auschwitz is liquidated

  • The Red Army

    The Red Army liberates Auschwitz-Birkenau and its remaining 7,000 prisoners

  • Himmler

    Himmler signs an agreement not to pass Hitler's order to destroy all concentration camps and kill all prisoners

  • Death of Hitler

    Hitler died in Berlin on April 30, 1945