Auschwitz concentration camp evacuated 56,000 prisoners.
Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was transported to Auschwitz, along with over a thousand other Jewish prisoners.
5,200 Jews from Athens arrived at Auschwitz.
Witold Pilecki escaped Auschwitz.
Auschwitz concentration camp started operation after 728 Polish prisoners became the first to arrive.
Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.