Auschwitz camp was originally created in spring 1940 mainly as a tool of terror in German-occupied Poland. Its first prisoners were members of Polish leadership, resistance & intellectuals - people arrested for their real or potential "threat" for the Reich.
March 24, 1943 | Approximately 2,800 Jewish men, women and children from the ghetto in Salonika arrive from occupied Greece to #Auschwitz#.
Following the selection, at least 1,986 of them are killed in the gas chambers.