Timeline

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 * Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.

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 * On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed

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 * Jasenovac, Croatia: bets were made as to who could liquidate the largest number of inmates. Father Petar Brzica, a Catholic priest, cut the throats of 1,360 prisoners with a especially designed butcher's knife (called Srbosjek or Serb-cutter). Having been proclaimed the prize-winner of... the competition, he was elected "King of the Cut-throats". A gold watch, a silver service, and a roasted sucking pig and wine were his other rewards.'

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 * In response to news of its coming liquidation,Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Lakhva Ghetto.

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 * Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.