

18 February 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Lida Kropveld, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Apeldoorn on 22 January 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
30 January 1933 | Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP - National Socialist German Workers' Party) became the Chancellor of Germany.
7 years, 4 months & 15 days later first Polish men were incarcerated in Auschwitz, a new concentration camp established in the occupied part of Polish territory annexed to Germany after the beginning of World War Two.
Listen to our podcast about the creation of the camp: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-1-The-beginnings-of-Auschwitz-e1161cf/a-a5k4gp7
The German Nazi Auschwitz camp was established by the SS in the occupied city of Oświęcim, on the Polish territory annexed by the Third Reich at the beginning of World War II. Paweł Sawicki talks to Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, head of the Museum Research Center, about the details of the decision-making process which led to the creation of the camp and about its first prisoners.
Sunrise in Italian Dolomites, summer 2022