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Some 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war arrived at Auschwitz I between 7 and 25 October 1941, [60] but by 1 March 1942 only 945 were still registered; they were transferred to Auschwitz II, [41] where most of them had died by May.
František Getreuer (1906–1945), Czech swimmer and Olympic water polo player, killed in Dachau concentration camp. Hugo Gryn (25 June 1930 – 18 August 1996), senior rabbi, London. Adélaïde Hautval (1 January 1906 – 17 October 1988), French psychiatrist who refused to cooperate with medical experimentation at Auschwitz.
At least 3,000 prisoners died on the Gleiwitz route alone. [14] Approximately 9,000-15,000 prisoners in total died on death marches out of Auschwitz's camps, [16] [13] and those who did survive were then put on freight trains and shipped to other camps deeper in German held territory.
In addition to the registered prisoners who died, a million Jews were gassed upon arriving in Auschwitz; including these victims, the total death toll is estimated at 1.8 to more than two million. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Most of the fatalities occurred during the second half of World War II, including at least a third of the 700,000 prisoners who were ...
According to Münch's estimation, prisoners died within three to five minutes of exposure to Zyklon B. [74] In an interview on Swedish television in 1981 Münch described the extermination process in detail and confirmed that "special treatment" in the context of Auschwitz referred to physical extermination. [75] During Fedorenko v.
Rudolf Höss. Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German: [hœs]; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) [ 4][ 5][ 6] was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he was convicted in Poland and executed for war crimes committed ...
A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in southern Poland. About 20 ...
Prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp after their liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz—a Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland where more than a million people were murdered as part of the Nazis' "Final Solution" to the Jewish question—was liberated by the Soviet Red Army during the Vistula–Oder Offensive.