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Salle 10 - Stalingrad | Soulèvement du ghetto de Varsovie
August 1942 – May 1943

In May 1944, Hungarian Jews who had been deported arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In just eight weeks, nearly 424,000 of them were massacred.

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Photo, 1944, Auschwitz © Yad Vashem_34779

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10.2 Acceleration of Deportations. The Nazi Army in Disarray

Period

1944

Document Type

Keywords

Deportation

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NC

Source

NC
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Documents from the same period

“The Battle of Stalingrad Is Over”: The February 4, 1943, edition of *Le Journal* reports the surrender of von Paulus’s Sixth Army at Stalingrad on February 3.

“From the Historic Victory at Stalingrad to the Final Victory”: *Notre Parole* No. 2, February 1943, celebrates the Red Army’s victory.

Our newspaper *Notre Parole*, in its March 8, 1943, edition, after praising the Soviet military successes, warned Jews—both foreign and French—against roundups and deportation.

A note dated Dec. 10, 1942, from the Polish government describing the reality of the “massacres of Jews in occupied Poland,” forwarded to the Allied governments.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: After the selection, Hungarian Jewish women and children were led to the gas chambers (May 27, 1944).

Auschwitz-Birkenau: On the “ramp,” the SS selected the deportees upon their arrival at the camp.