The invading troops included a Sonderkommando which was led by SS officer Adolf Eichmann, who arrived in Budapest in order to supervise the deportation of the country's Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland.

There, the Germans took them to various concentration camps, especially Dachau in southern Germany and Mauthausen in northern Austria, and to Vienna, where they were employed in the construction of fortifications around the city.

By the end of July 1944, the only Jewish community left in Hungary was that of Budapest, the capital. Jews from Subcarpathian Rus get off the deportation train and assemble on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Jan 26, 2018 · January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Army, now Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is a time to honor the six million innocent lives lost in the Holocaust, as well as those who made heroic sacrifices to save others.

Dec 19, 2019 · From May 15 to July 9, 437,0000 Jews from outside Budapest who were transported by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau were killed. Hungarian Jews were the single largest group of victims to be...

After a journey of several weeks, including a diversion to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, 1,670 surviving passengers reached Switzerland in August and December 1944. Kastner emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1947.

Jan 28, 2025 · Navracsics noted that the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp had been liberated on this day 80 years ago, adding that “it was an important day, a milestone, but not a start or end date in terms of the developments of the Holocaust.”

Apr 27, 2004 · Concentration camp -- An article in Section A on April 27 about the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest, Hungary, referred to “Poland’s Auschwitz concentration camp.” It should have made it...

The first transports of Hungarian Jews were directed to Auschwitz on 28th and 29th April 1944 from Kistarcsa camp, near Budapest, and from the town of Bačka Topola in Vojvodina. They arrived at the so-called Altejudenrampe on 2nd May.

Jan 17, 2025 · More than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, perished at Auschwitz, the death camp set up by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland to carry out Hitler's "Final Solution" to exterminate European...