Holocaust. Auschwitz Birkenau Video
Nazi Germany built a facility in 1942 known as A Death Factory for the purpose of exterminating the Jewish race.
Around 300 barracks were built on a 170-hectare site.
At its peak, 90,000 people were detained here at any one time to be killed.
Once people passed through this gate, [...]
Holocaust 1944 Key Dates
January 22
U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9417, creating the War Refugee Board. Roosevelt instructs the War Refugee Board to take measures to rescue victims of enemy oppression in imminent danger of death. The activities of the War Refugee Board contribute to saving tens of thousands of Jews from [...]
Holocaust 1942 Key Dates
January 7
SS authorities established the civilian prisoner camp Stutthof, near Danzig (Gdansk) on September 2, 1939. On January 7, 1942, the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps redesignates Stutthof as a concentration camp.
January 16
German authorities begin the deportation of Jews and Roma (Gypsies) from the Lodz ghetto to Chelmno. Between January 1942 and March [...]
