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Zyklon-B first used; (aprox date).
Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I, in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow. -
Zyklon B First used: (approximate date).
Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I, in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow. -
Wansee Conference
Wansee conference to co-ordinate Final Solution. -
229,052 Jews reported exterminated.
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Period: to
50% of all Jews killed in Holocaust in this period.
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Belzec Becomes death camp (aprox date).
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First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz.
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SS report 97,000 persons have been "processed" in mobile gas vans.
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Period: to
1,000,000 Jews killed in Treblinka.
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First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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SS Dr. Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz.
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Himmler orders liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland.
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Exterminations cease at Treblinka. (Aprox date).
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Russian troops reach former Polish border.
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Beginning of the deportation of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz.
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D-Day
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Lodz, the last Jewish ghetto in Poland, is liquidated with 60,000 Jews sent to Auschwitz.
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The last transport of Jews to be gassed, 2,000 from Theresienstadt, arrives at Auschwitz.
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Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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Liberation of Warsaw by the Russians.
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Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz.
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Russian troops liberate Auschwitz.
Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there. -
Berlin is reached by Russian troops.