October 22, 1943 | 1,260 female prisoners, including 394 women from the prisoners' infirmary are selected from the women's camp of #Auschwitz II-Birkenau to be killed in gas chambers the same day.

The tour of Auschwitz Exhibition takes around 2 to 3 hours. However, you can stay longer if you need to.

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October 21, 1943 | 1,007 Jews from the Westerbork camp arrive at #Auschwitz . In the transport are 87 children, 407 men and 306 women under age 50, as well as 207 older people.

347 men & 170 women are admitted to the camp. The other 490 deportees are killed in gas chambers.

October 21, 1942 | 1,327 Jewish men, women and children arrive at #Auschwitz from Westerbork, in the German-occupied #Netherlands . After selection 497 men are admitted to the camp. The remaining 830 deportees, including all the women and children, are killed in the gas chambers.

October 21, 1944 | After a selection conducted in the men's camps 1,000 prisoners are killed in the gas chamber of Crematorium III of #Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

📷 Reading glasees belonging to an unknown deportee. Auschwitz Memorial ' collection displayed in Auschwitz Exhibition

October 21, 1943 | German Nazi authorities declare the Minsk ghetto officially liquidated, after killing the 2,000 Jewish people who were still alive.

October 20, 1943 | A Polish woman Helena Plotnicka is registered with no. 65492. She is a courier of the resistance movement who also organized & implemented illegal deliveries of food to prisoners. She will die on March 17, 1944 in the female camp in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

Through a daunting selection of objects from + 20 institutions all over the world, Auschwitz Exhibition portrays the reality of #Auschwitz , universal symbol of the Nazi horror, and the world of victims and perpetrators. Learn more about the collections at auschwitz.net

Each object displayed in Auschwitz Exhibition represents a name and a life. That is why Auschwitz Memorial and Musealia , coproducers of the exhibition, carefully work to preserve all of them, even the smallest ones.

Remember you can take pictures, but flash, tripods, or devices that can disturb other visitors are not allowed. Make sure your photos respect the memory of the victims.

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October 20, 1944 | 1,000 young people between ages of 12 and 18 are killed in the gas chamber of crematorium III, including 357 young Jews who arrived the same day from an auxiliary camp in the village of Dyherrnfurth that belonged to the Groß-Rosen camp.

(3/3) The Sonderkommando formed for this operation are lodged in a barracks isolated from the other prisoners' barracks by a wooden fence. No one may approach them, but the clouds of smoke and the stench confirms the rumor circulating about the burning of bodies.

(2/3) This order is probably connected to the removal of the traces of crimes. Prisoners were ordered to dig up and burn the bodies that had been buried in mass graves.

October 19, 1942 | The camp commandant Rudolf Höss orders the closing of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau area to civilians. The Birkenau area may be entered only by holders of a special pass who come on official business. (1/3)