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Departure date: 25 June 1942
Arrival date: 27 June 1942
Departure: Pithiviers
Arrival: Auschwitz on 27 June 1942
Number of deportees: 557 Jewish deportees
Camp registration: After arrival at Auschwitz, deportees were registered under prisoner numbers 41773–42772.
Context: June in Beaune-la-Rolande. Jede Person solle Proviant for drei Tage mitbringen. Dizier (15:24-15:29), Revigny (16:29-16:32), Bar Le Duc (17:05-17:15), Lérouville (18:39-18:44) and Neuburg (Novéant) (19:57-20:20). Drei Stunden before the Abfahrt sollte he On Gleis bereit stehen.
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