Beuthen, Upper Silesia in Holocaust and WWII

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Timeline from Wikipedia, adding more citations.

• 1939
  • The Einsatzgruppe I entered the city on September 6, 1939, to commit atrocities against Poles.[16] Many Poles were conscripted to the Wehrmacht and died on various war fronts, including 92 former students of the Polish gymnasium.[17]

**The Beuthen Jewish community was liquidated via the first ever Holocaust transport to be exterminated at Auschwitz-Birkenau.[18][19][20]

• Year ___ to Year ____
  • The Germans operated a Nazi prison in the city with a forced labour subcamp in the present-day Karb district.[21] There were also multiple forced labour camps within the present-day city limits, including six subcamps of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner of war camp.[22]

• 1942- death of Hijman Polak (1905-1942) - he was from Amsterdam. (when and how did he get there) (found in Wikitreer Frank Polak's family tree Weatherall-96 17:27, 26 February 2024 (UTC))

• 1945- In 1945, the city was transferred to Poland as a result of the Potsdam Conference.[citation needed] Its German population was largely expelled by the Soviet Army and the remaining indigenous Polish inhabitants were joined mostly by Poles repatriated from the eastern provinces annexed by the Soviets.[citation needed]

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