1944/2014 | 70th anniversary of deportation and extermination of Jews from Hungary in Auschwitz On 25 May 1944 several hundred Jews from Hungary, who had arrived in the evening, tried to escape. They tried to hide in the woods next to the crematorium building and in trenches around the area. The manhunt was supervised by the head of the womens camp Franz Hössler who ordered to use reflectors to spot the fleeing people. All Jews were shot. On May 25 five trains with Jews deported from Hungary to Auschwitz crossed the border in Košice, with: 3,334 Jews from Užhorod (Ungvár), 3,148 from Oradea (Nagyvárad), 3,130 from Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), 3,317 from Akna-Szlatina and 3,306 from Vişeu de Sus (Felsövisó) - all together 15,935 people.
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 17:45:49 +0000
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