April 23, 1942 | 543 Jewish men and 457 Jewish women from Slovakia receive Nos. 31942-32484 and 5769-6225.

On August 15, 1942, only 41 of them are still alive. Within 16 weeks, 502 men die.

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April 22, 1937 | The German #Gestapo states that all Jehovah Witness’ that get out of jail have to be immediately sent to concentration camps. In the picture, Siegfried Kusserow, a Jehovah's Witness that was persecuted by the Gestapo until his death in an accident on 22 July 1937

The German Army launched the first gas attack in history on April 22, 1915, against French, English, and Canadian forces defending Ypres, Belgium.

Document showing German mounted soldier and horses wearing gas masks from 1918. Collection of Musealia

April 22, 1933 | Non-Aryan teachers are excluded from teaching association, while the “Aryan Paragraph” is introduced in the German Druggists Association.

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April 22, 1943 | 2,800 Jewish men, women and children from the ghetto in Thessaloniki arrive in #Auschwitz in an RSHA transport from occupied #Greece . Only 255 men and 413 women are admitted to the camp. The remaining 2,132 deportees are immediately killed in gas chambers.

This poster (Germany, 1919) outlined the cost of peace after WWI: 20 percent of Germany’s territory, 10 percent of its population, 1/3 of its coal production, 4/5 of its iron production, 1/4 of its grain and potato yield, all of its colonies, and its merchant fleet.

These 'Union' charms were crafter by Esther Friedlander in #Auschwitz from a bullet, envisioning a more happy future where this charms would adorn someone's wrist.

Original object shown at Auschwitz Exhibition from Shirley Koplovic & Mark Levine private collection.

The #AuschwitzExhibition at The Castle at Park Plaza in Boston (MA) is open 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. every day of the week.

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April 21, 1945 | Soviet troops encircle #Berlin . One day earlier, Adolf #Hitler announced to his top leaders that he would remain in Berlin.

'Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere'.

Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz Survivor.

April 20, 1942 | 200 convalescent prisoners are taken from Block 20 infirmary and lodged in the isolation Ward at Auschwitz. 3 to 5 prisoners receive 1 quart of soup to share daily. There is not medical care. They spend the day standing in front of the barracks.

20 April, 1889 | Adolf #Hitler is born in the border town of Braunau am Inn, #Austria . The second of six children of Alois Hitler & Klara Pölzl. Only him & his sister Paula will survive the childhood.

Looking at perpetrators is hard but it's a necessary warning to us all.

April 19-30, 1942 | The Bermuda Conference occurs as representatives from the #United States and #Britain discuss the problem of refugees from German-occupied countries, but results in inaction concerning the plight of the #Jewish people. #NotlongagoNotfarway

Occasionally, prisoners with drawing skills would paint peaceful scenes on their letters in #Auschwitz . Usually, camp censors allowed such letters. Letter by prisoner Josef Kroker (1941). Original object at Auschwitz Exhibition from Florence & Laurence Spungen Family Foundation.

April 20, 1942 | German #Jews are banned from public transportation.

April 19, 1943 | Simon Gronowski is deported with 1,631 Jews from German-occupied Belgium to #Auschwitz . Three resistance fighters –in picture– stopped the train which allowed his escape from the 20th Convoy. He stayed in hiding with his father. He is 92 today.

April 19–May 16, 1943 | The #Warsaw ghetto uprising takes place. Jewish fighters resist the German attempt to liquidate the ghetto. German SS & police units murdered or deported for extermination tens of thousands of people.

May 19, 1943 | Resistance fighter, Polish woman Helena Plotnicka is arrested in #Auschwitz & locked in Block 11. She brought food, medications and mail into the main camp & smuggled prisoner’s reports and letters out. She died in #Auschwitz of typhoid on March 1944.

A Polish Prisoner Bronisław Czech made this decorative box as an employee of the art workshop in #Auschwitz . In 1944 was reassigned as a cleaner and few months by, caught typhus and perished.

This original object shown at Auschwitz Exhibition comes from Auschwitz Memorial collection.