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1944
Hungary
Antisemitism

First Victims of the Gas Chambers in Auschwitz

On 29–30 April 1944, the first transports of Hungarian Jews were sent to Auschwitz from Kistarcsa and Bačka Topola under SS control and with Hungarian police involvement. Of the 3,800 deported, around 1,100 were selected for forced labour, 2,700 were murdered on arrival in the gas chambers.

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