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First transport of Slovak Jewish women arrives at Auschwitz

📅 26 March 1942

The first transport of Slovak Jewish women arrived at Auschwitz. Most were young women and teenagers deported the previous day from Poprad by the Slovak state. Their arrival marks the start of mass...

Transport of Jews from Croatia arrives at Auschwitz

📅 18 August 1942

A transport of Jews from the NDH arrived at Auschwitz as part of the Croatian regime’s collaboration with Nazi Germany in deporting surviving Jews into German custody. Many Jews had already been...

German occupiers demand Jewish forced labor in Tunisia

📅 6 December 1942

SS officer Walter Rauff ordered Tunisian Jewish leaders to provide men for forced labor. Roughly 5,000 Jewish men were conscripted during the occupation and sent to labor and detention camps; this was...

First Salonika transport arrives at Auschwitz

📅 20 March 1943

The first deportation transport from Salonika arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This marked the start of a sequence that destroyed one of Europe’s largest Sephardic Jewish communities, whose...

Deportations of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz resume

📅 1 September 1944

Following Germany’s invasion, German and Slovak authorities resumed deportations of Slovak Jews. The renewed round included people who had survived earlier deportations, people in hiding, and...

First transport of Slovak Jews from Sered’ arrives at Theresienstadt

📅 28 September 1944

The first transport of Slovak Jews from Sered’ arrived at Theresienstadt after Germany reoccupied Slovakia and suppressed the uprising. Theresienstadt served as a transit and concentration site;...

43 German Sinti are killed in the Hrastina massacre

📅 24 April 1945

On the night of 24–25 April 1945, 43 German Sinti men, women, and children hiding in Hrastina near Zagreb were killed and burned in a barn. Sources disagree about the perpetrators: a Council of Europe...