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Chełmno killing center begins murdering Jews

8 December 1941

German authorities began mass murder at Chełmno, where victims were killed in gas vans and buried or burned in nearby forests. It was the first stationary killing center used by Nazi Germany for the...

Abba Kovner calls on Vilna Jews to resist Nazi murder

31 December 1941

Abba Kovner urged Jewish youth and resistance factions in the Vilna ghetto to resist Nazi Germany and its collaborators, warning that deportations meant murder. The appeal helped bring divided...

Wannsee Conference coordinates deportation and murder policy

20 Januari 1942

Senior Nazi officials met at Wannsee to coordinate the deportation of Europe’s Jews into a program euphemistically called the “Final Solution.” The conference did not initiate the genocide: mass...

Mass murder begins at Bełżec

17 Maart 1942

German SS authorities began gassing Jews at Bełżec, one of the Operation Reinhard killing centers built in occupied Poland. Deportation trains brought Jewish communities from ghettos to a site...

First deportation transport of Slovak Jews leaves Poprad

25 Maart 1942

Slovak authorities began systematic deportations by sending a transport of young Jewish women and girls from Poprad into German custody. Slovakia was then a nominally sovereign Axis partner; its...

👉 First transport of Slovak Jewish women arrives at Auschwitz Huidig

26 Maart 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...

First deportation train leaves Drancy for Auschwitz

27 Maart 1942

A train carrying 1,112 Jews departed the Drancy transit camp for Auschwitz. French police and administrators helped operate the arrest and internment system, while German authorities directed...

Vichy authorities announce yellow-star order for Jews in occupied zone

29 Mei 1942

A German ordinance required Jews aged six and older in the occupied zone to wear a yellow star beginning June 7. It marked Jewish people for public humiliation and facilitated exclusion and...

First deportation train leaves the Netherlands for Auschwitz

15 Juli 1942

German occupation authorities deported the first group of Dutch Jews from Westerbork to Auschwitz. Dutch police and administrative bodies participated in the machinery of arrest and deportation; the...

French police begin Vel d’Hiv roundup

16 Juli 1942

French police arrested thousands of Jews in Paris and surrounding areas during the two-day roundup of July 16–17. Many families were detained at the Vélodrome d’Hiver before transfer to Drancy and...

Mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka begin

22 Juli 1942

German SS and police units, assisted by auxiliaries, began mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center. By September, about 265,000 Jews had been deported and murdered;...

First transport of Slovak Jewish women arrives at Auschwitz

Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Jewish women and girls deported from Slovakia

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Slovak government

German SS

Auschwitz camp administration

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Which event occurred on 26/03/1942? What happened on March 26, 1942 at Auschwitz?

The first transport of Slovak Jewish women arrived at Auschwitz on March 26.