14 December 1942 | A transport of 1,500 Jews deported from the ghetto in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki arrived at Auschwitz.

After the selection, SS doctors sent 580 men to be registered in the camp. The remaining 920 people were murdered in gas chambers.

🔊 Our podcast explains why in spring 1942 the Auschwitz concentration camp became also an extermination center for Jewish people: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-4-Transformation-of-Auschwitz-concentration-camp-into-an-extermination-center-e13bat2

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