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The Holocaust

The Jews arranged an uprising in Auschwitz

Saturday Oct 7, 1944
Poland

On 7 October 1944, 300 Jewish members, mostly Greek or Hungarian, of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz learned they were about to be killed, and staged an uprising, blowing up crematorium IV. Three SS officers were killed.


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