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On Sun. 05 Mar 1944 732 Jews from the Westerbork transit camp arrived.....

1944-03-05

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732 Jews from the Westerbork transit camp arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland. 477 of them were sent to the gas chambers without being registered into the camp Facility

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