1944/08/02 – 1944/08/03 – Auschwitz-Birkenau Lagerabschnitt BIIe Ermordungen

On the evening of 2 August, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp (German-annexed Poland), the approximately 4,300 Sinti and Roma remaining in Camp Section BIIe are murdered in gas chamber V. On the morning of 3 August, the SS murders those who had managed to hide.