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3 January 1942 | Czech Jewish girl Věra Rotterová was born.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 4 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
Věra Rotterová was deported to #Auschwitz together with her parents: Jiri & Bedřiška (📷). Bedřiška was murdered together with her daughter. Jiri was registered as a prisoner & later transferred to Buchenwald. He survived the war.

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1 January 1945 | 200 Poles sentenced to death by a Gestapo summary court (100 men & 100 women) were shot in crematorium V at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. They were transported from Block 11 in Auschwitz I in two groups - men and women separately...
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9-10 November 1938 | November Pogrom organized against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds killed & died by suicide, 30,000 men arrested, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristalln… ImageImage
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