15 March 1943: Deportations from Salonika to Auschwitz begin
On 15 March 1943, thousands of Jews in Salonika, Greece, were deported from ghettos to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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13 March 1943: Kraków Ghetto is ‘liquidated’
On 13 March 1943, Julian Scherner, commander of the SS and Police in the Kraków district, Poland, ordered the ‘liquidation’ of the Kraków Ghetto.
27 February 1943: The Rosenstrasse Protest
In February and March 1943 non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men who had been arrested by the Gestapo staged a nonviolent protest in Rosenstrasse (Rose Street) in Berlin.
27 January 1945: Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
On 27 January 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp.
20 January 1942: Wannsee Conference
On 20 January 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi security service, chaired a meeting in Berlin that would become known as the Wannsee Conference.
17 January 1945: Liberation of the Budapest Ghetto
On 17-18 January 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Budapest Ghetto.
Joan Salter - Moving Portrait
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust commissioned a special project entitled Moving Portraits. This is a collection of five photographs of genocide survivors, with each individual featured holding an object that holds significance to them.
Avram and Vera Schaufeld - Moving Portrait
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust commissioned a special project entitled Moving Portraits. This is a collection of five photographs of genocide survivors, with each individual featured holding an object that holds significance to them.