The story
Date: 5 June 1942
Departure: Polizeihaftlager Compiegne
Arrival: Auschwitz
Number of deportees: 1,000 Jewish deportees
Camp registration: After arrival at Auschwitz, deportees were registered under prisoner numbers 38177–39176.
Context: Leiter the Transports was the Leutnant the Feldgendarmerie Reiff. Ich sah the Schild with the Aufschrift ‚Arbeit macht frei‘. innerhalb from zehn Wochen kommen 783 prisoners ums Leben.
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