A column of Jews, driven on foot to the Auschwitz extermination camp. Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and from 1942 until late 1944, freight trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to its gas chambers. Of the million people sent to Auschwitz, million were murdered

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