Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

On 28 May, he was transferred to Auschwitz as prisoner # 16670.

Echoing the criticism of the House of Commons, on 14 May 1990 a leader in The Times described Irving as a " man for whom Hitler is something of a hero and almost everything of an innocent and for whom Auschwitz is a Jewish deception ".

They were forced into ghettos in 1944 by the Hungarian authorities and deported to Auschwitz in May – June 1944.

* Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, deposition by Henryk Tauber in the Polish Courts, May 24, 1945, p. 481 – 502, Jean-Claude Pressac, Pressac-Klarsfeld, 1989, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York, Library of Congress 89-81305

On 24 May 1957 Teresa Lubienska, a Polish Countess who had survived Auschwitz concentration camp, was stabbed five times on the eastbound Piccadilly line platform and died shortly afterwards.

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss ( also spelled Höß, sometimes spelled in English as Hoess ; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947 ) was an ( Lieutenant Colonel ), and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943 the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were murdered.

On 8 May 1944 Höss returned to Auschwitz to supervise the operation, known as Aktion Höss, by which 430, 000 Hungarian Jews were transported to the camp and killed during 56 days between May and July of that year.

According to an interrogation report, Aumeier stated that in May – June 1943 while still attached to Auschwitz he was ordered to report to the Higher SS and Police Leader “ Ostland ”, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln.

In May 1945, several former Auschwitz prisoners recognized her on a road from Pirna to Bautzen in the Russian zone, and took her to the Russian Military Police.

Lustig celebrated his bar mitzvah on May 2, 2011 at Auschwitz, in front of barrack No. 24 a.

On May 19, 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz along with the rest of the Jewish community.

* Krymsky, ‘ Тростенец – белорусский “ Oсвенцим ”’ – Belarusian ‘ Auschwitz ’, Rossiĭskie vesti ( Moscow ), No. 16 ( 1771 ), May 11 – 18, 2005 to take issue with the claims made in the preceding article ; includes two contemporary photographs of Soviet excavations.

Auschwitz was liberated, also by the Soviets, on January 27, 1945 ; Buchenwald by the Americans on April 11 ; Bergen-Belsen by the British on April 15 ; Dachau by the Americans on April 29 ; Ravensbrück by the Soviets on the same day ; Mauthausen by the Americans on May 5 ; and Theresienstadt by the Soviets on May 8.

On May 18 – 20, 1998, he participated in the Conference on Religion and Peace sponsored by the Center for Christian, Jewish Understanding of Sacred Heart University in Auschwitz, Poland.

Richard Baer ( September 9, 1911 – June 17, 1963 ) was a German Nazi official with the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer ( major ) and commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945.

He succeeded Arthur Liebehenschel, considered by Himmler to be too " soft " with the prisoners, as the third and final commandant of Auschwitz from May 11, 1944 until the final dissolution of the camp in early 1945.

-to the left-the gas chamber s. Photo from the Auschwitz Album ( May 1944 )

This city had a Jewish ghetto in 1944, at its height from May to June 1944 when most of the Jews of this section of northern Transylvania were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp to be gassed shortly after arrival.

In May 1944, the Jews were gathered in the ghetto of Reghin and on June 4, 1944 were deported to Auschwitz.

* 1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.

* 1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

* 1944 – Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.

In early June 1944, while the Allies bombed Corfu as a diversion from the Normandy landings, the Gestapo rounded up the Jews of the city, temporarily incarcerated them at the old fort ( Palaio Frourio ), and on 10 June sent them to Auschwitz, where very few survived.

The majority of women prisoners, however, arrived in 1944 and 1945 from other camps, mainly Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Bergen Belsen.

Ordained in Germany in 1935, she died in Auschwitz concentration camp | Auschwitz in 1944.

Matisse's student Rudolf Levy was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.

Almost all the people deported were murdered on or shortly after April 11, 1944, when their train reached Auschwitz concentration camp | Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In Ioannina 1, 860 out of 1, 950 Jews were deported to Auschwitz and Birkenau in April 1944.

On October 9, 1981, both parties in the Mermelstein case filed motions for summary judgment in consideration of which Judge Thomas T. Johnson of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County took " judicial notice of the fact that Jews were gassed to death at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland during the summer of 1944.

Madame Levy was imprisoned in Camp Drancy on 3 November 1943, and on 20 November of the same year she was deported to Auschwitz, where she died of typhus in January 1944.

Anne Frank stayed in the hut shown to the left from August until early September 1944, when she was taken to Auschwitz.

She and her family were put on the first of the three final trains ( the three final transports were most probably a reaction to the Allies ' offensive ) on 3 September 1944 for Auschwitz, arriving there three days later.

From July 1944 to January 1945, Gliwice was the location for one of the many sub-camps of the Auschwitz concentration camp

There were several enforced labor camps in Chorzów and, in years 1944 – 1945, two branches of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The following note was found buried in the Auschwitz crematoria and was written by Zalman Gradowski, a member of the Sonderkommando who was killed in the Sonderkommando Revolt in October 1944:

In 1944 Marcel's father was captured and deported to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed.

On 19 October 1944, Frankl, with his wife, Tilly, was transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was processed and then he was moved to Kaufering, a Nazi concentration camp affiliated with Dachau concentration camp, where he arrived on 25 October 1944.

As early as September 1942, Dr. Johann Paul Kremer, M. D., an SS physician, witnessed a gassing of prisoners, and in his diary wrote: " They don't call Auschwitz the camp of annihilation Lager der Vernichtung for nothing!

Numerous future members and leaders of the Nazi Party had served in the Freikorps, including Ernst Röhm, future head of the Sturmabteilung, or SA, Heinrich Himmler, future head of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, and Rudolf Höß, the future Kommandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

* 1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

** Eduard Wirths, German doctor, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp ( suicide ) ( b. 1909 )

As the Red Army drew nearer to Auschwitz concentration camp and the other easternmost concentration camps, the SS began evacuating the remaining prisoners westward.

* Benoît Cazenave, L ’ exemplarité du commandant SS Karl Otto Koch, Revue de la Fondation Auschwitz, Bruxelles, 2005.

At the trial, the world got its first view of Irma Grese, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Juana Bormann, Fritz Klein, Josef Kramer, and the rest of the SS men and women who before served at Mittelbau Dora, Ravensbrück, Auschwitz I, II, III, and Neuengamme.

It played down the significance of the This Dahlem commission marked the reverse of the NMT, Mengele link by stressing that he was only a camp doctor, who would have followed SS regulations against spreading information about Auschwitz as an extermination camp.

The former Nazi SS dentist at Auschwitz, Dr. Christian Szell, now residing in Uruguay, must smuggle many diamonds out of the United States after the accidental death of his brother in New York City.

Night and Fog, the earliest documentary on Auschwitz ( Alain Resnais, 1955 ), includes a description of the Auschwitz Orchestra, an institution organized by the SS to assemble and play selections of German dances and popular songs.

The plan was directed by, and named after, Schutzstaffel Sturmbannführer ( SS Major ) Bernhard Krüger, who set up a team of 142 counterfeiters from inmates at Sachsenhausen concentration camp at first, and then from other camps, especially Auschwitz.

Höss wrote his autobiography while awaiting execution ; it was published in 1958 as and later as Death Dealer: the Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz ( among other editions ).

* Autobiography, edited by Steven Paskuly and translated by Andrew Pollinger: Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz.

One of the most important men at Auschwitz being deputy to the commandant, he was different from other SS officers ; he was uneducated and almost illiterate.

Jeremy Dixon, Commanders of Auschwitz: The SS Officers who ran the Largest Nazi Concentration Camp 1940-1945, Schiffer Military History: Atglen, PA, 2005, ISBN 0-7643-2175-7

): Auschwitz in den Augen der SS.

* Eduard Wirths, Nazi SS chief physician at Auschwitz concentration camp and Holocaust perpetrator

In November 1947, the former SS woman appeared in a Kraków, Poland courtroom, along with 40 other SS guards in the Auschwitz Trial.

In March 1942, Brandl was one of several SS women to be assigned to Auschwitz I camp in occupied Poland.

Court records cite former SS member Hertha Ehlert, who served at Ravensbruck, Majdanek, Lublin, Auschwitz, and Bergen Belsen, as describing her training as " physically and emotionally demanding " when questioned at the Belsen Trial.

Between seven and twenty Aufseherinnen served in Vught, twenty-four SS women trained at Buchenwald ( three at a time ), thirty-four in Bergen Belsen, nineteen at Dachau, twenty in Mauthausen, three in Dora Mittelbau, seven at Natzweiler-Struthof, twenty at Majdanek, 200 at Auschwitz and its subcamps, 140 at Sachsenhausen, 158 at Neuengamme, forty-seven at Stutthof compared to 958 who served in Ravensbrück ( 2, 000 were trained there ), 561 in Flossenbürg, and 541 at Gross Rosen.