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Mar 31 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
31 March 1943 | The Germans completed the construction of gas chamber & crematorium II at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Undressing space & 210 sq. meters gas chamber were located underground. Zyklon B was thrown through the holes in the ceiling into special wire mesh columns. 1/4 ImageImage
The crematorium located on the ground level designed by Topf und Söhne company from #Erfurt was equipped with five 3-muffles ovens connected to one chimney. According to the producers the ovens could burn 1,440 corpses every 24 hours. 2/4 Image
On 20 January 1945 - 7 days before the liberation of #Auschwitz the building was blew up with dynamite by the SS in order to destroy the evidence of mass murder. 3/4 Image
Visitors can see the remains of crematorium & gas chamber II while visiting the @AuschwitzMuseum. The ruins are also presented in our virtual visit: panorama.auschwitz.org/tour2,3013,en.… 4/4 Image

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2 April 1942 | A transport of 30 Poles (incl. 14 Jews) arrived at #Auschwitz. They were sent to the camp by Sipo u. SD from Cracow. At least 27 of them were killed in the camp. In the thread we present four of them. 1/5 ImageImageImageImage
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Germany: The notorious neo-Nazi Ursula Haverbeck was sentenced to a 12-month prison sentence in Berlin for denying the murder of over a million Jews at the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.
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Mar 26
26 March 1942 | First female prisoner arrived at #Auschwitz: 999 German women transferred from KL Ravensbrück & 999 Slovak Jewish women transported from Poprad. They were placed in 10 blocks of Auschwitz I camp (1-10) previously isolated from the rest of the camp with a wall.
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Mar 24
Jozef & Wiktoria Ulma risked their lives to help Jews during the #Holocaust. On 24 March 1944 the German police discovered the Jews in hiding.

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22 March 1943 | The Zentralbauleitung of the #Auschwitz camp (Central Construction office) completed the construction of gas chamber and crematorium IV at Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. The undressing rooms, gas chamber and crematorium were located on the ground level. 1/5
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12 March 1943 | A 14-year old Polish girl, Czesława Kwoka (camp no. 26947), was murdered in #Auschwitz with a phenol injection into the heart. She was deported by Germans from Zamość region as part of their plan of creating „living space” in the east. 1/4
According to the testimony of a survivor Wilhelm Brasse, who took the registration picture of Czesława Kwoka, just before it was taken, the girl was beaten by one of the guards. In the picture, you can see the cut in her lip.
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