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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FORMER GERMAN NAZI
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP

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They were the first ones. Ceremonial Commemorations of the 61st anniversary of the first transport

14-06-2001

Ceremonies marking the 61st anniversary of the first transport of 728 Polish prisoners from the Tarnów prison to Auschwitz Concentration Camp were held at the site of the camp. Because they fell on the same day as Corpus Christi (a public holiday in Poland), the commemorations took a more modest form. A documentary film about the first transport of Poles to Auschwitz was shown.

After the placing of wreaths and flowers in front of the building where these first transported prisoners were quartered, there was an informal meeting and meal in the International Youth Meeting House.