Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
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Soviet forces liberate Auschwitz.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
Auschwitz concentration camp started operation after 728 Polish prisoners became the first to arrive.
5,200 Jews from Athens arrived at Auschwitz.
Anne Frank and her sister Margot Frank were deported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen.
