The First Train to Auschwitz
25th March 1942: The first transport to Auschwitz leaves the Slovakian town of Poprad with 997 teenage girls and women
The first Nazi camp at Oświęcim in occupied Poland was a Polish army barracks which the SS converted into a detention camp for Polish political prisoners. It was notorious for the sadism of the guards, recruited from German criminals. The site also saw the first ‘experimental’ use of Zyklon B gas to kil…
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