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Jan 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
18 January 1945 | In the early morning female camp at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau began the evacuation. On that day 5,345 women left the camp and began the Death March. #Auschwitz77
The prisoners of Auschwitz III-Monowitz were evacuated in columns of 1,000 people each. The Germans left behind 850 sick prisoners in the camp.

Before evacuation of Gleiwitz I subcamp SS shot several dozen of sick & exhausted prisoners. auschwitz.org/en/history/aus…
Some 800 prisoners were led out of Janinagrube subcamp. Only about 200 of them reached KL Gross-Rosen. auschwitz.org/en/history/aus…
Read about final days of #Auschwitz, evacuation, liberation on 27 January 1945 and the fate of some 7,000 liberated prisoners in our online lesson full of historical information, photos and testimonies of survivors: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_11_wyzwolen…

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Jan 17
17 January 1945 | SS physician Josef Mengele liquidated his laboratory at the BIIf section of #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. During the evacuation he took with him the entire documentation of his experiments made on prisoners: twins, dwarfs, and people with disabilities.
In Auschwitz Mengele carried out anthropometric, serological & morphological studies of the twins. He deliberately infected some children with typhus. The final phase of his experiments included killing of the twins & conducting a comparative analysis or particular organs.
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8 January 1942 | 60 Poles - including 4 Jews - deported to the camp by Sipo u. SD in Cracow arrived at #Auschwitz from Montelupich Prison. Among them was Adam Kopyciński, who in May 1944 became the conductor of the camp orchestra. 1/4
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Jan 5
‼️Over 563,000 people visited @AuschwitzMuseum in 2021. It is a slight increase compared to 2020; however, it is important to remember that in the period before the pandemic, over two million people visited the Museum every year. auschwitz.org/en/museum/news…
The effect of ongoing travel restrictions are refleted in the statistics. Although the number of people visiting the Memorial from abroad increased, they accounted for 51 per cent of all visitors. In the pre-pandemic period, it was usually around 80 per cent.
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Jan 5
5 January 1945 | The last session of the Gestapo summary court from Kattowitz was held in Block 11 in Auschwitz I. Over 100 Poles were sentenced to death. Germans shot them in crematorium V in Birkenau the next day Jan Strycharski from Myślachowice was one of them.
Jan Strycharski, who was sentenced to death on 5 January 1945, left a message inside Block 11 that survived till this day: "Strycharski Jan, 17 June 1905, Trzebinia, Myślachowice, Czyżówka no. 11. Let my family know. 5 January 1945."
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28 December 1942 | Prof. Carl Clauberg began his experiments on female prisoners at Auschwitz II-Birkenau to develop a non-surgical mass sterilization method. In April 1943 Clauberg moved to Block 10 in Auschwitz I.

🔊Our #podcast about experiments: anchor.fm/auschwitz-memo…
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25 December 1943 | There were 86,920 prisoners in the entire Auschwitz concentration camp system: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Auschwitz III-Monowitz camps & sub-camps: 56,596 men and 30,324 women.
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