Mass murder of Jews from all over Europe begins

With the arrival of the first deportation trains at the concentration camp of Auschwitz (Poland) on 26 March 1942, the systematic mass murder of European Jews in gas chambers begins. By 1945 over a million people, 90 per cent of them Jews, will die in Auschwitz.

The main gate of Auschwitz I, put into operation in 1941; in 1942 it was completed by the extermination camp Auschwitz II near Birkenau