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1941
October
01
The camp at Majdanek
From 1 October 1941 the SS was to build a camp near Lublin for 50,000 Soviet prisoners of war. So began Majdanek, where nearly 80,000 people died.
1942
March
17
Killing begins at Bełżec
On 17 March 1942 the first transports of Jews from Lublin and Lwów reached the Bełżec camp. They were murdered in the gas chambers soon after arrival.
May
03
Killing begins at Sobibór
On 3 May 1942, according to the USHMM, regular transports of Jews began to reach the Sobibór camp. By autumn 1943 some 170,000–250,000 people were killed there.
July
22
The Treblinka extermination camp
On 22 July 1942 the first transport left Warsaw for Treblinka II. The next day the camp began operating; the Germans murdered some 800,000–900,000 Jews there.
1943
August
16
Key event
The Białystok Ghetto Uprising
On 16 August 1943 the Germans began liquidating the Białystok ghetto. Several hundred poorly armed fighters resisted; their leaders died in the ghetto.