31 January 1943 | 5,239 Polish Jews arrived at the German Nazi Auschwitz camp in a transport from the ghetto in Prużana.
After the selection made by SS doctors 562 men and 212 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 4,537 people, including 1,207 children below the age of 10, were murdered in gas chambers.
This is the saddest headline I've ever seen. And there have been a whole lot of sad headlines lately.
Around 600 letters & papers from the ship Franciscus of Hamburg are now online in the Prize Papers Portal. From shipboard musicians to Irish immigrants & Spanish Dominican Nuns, these records bring lesser-known people of the 18th century to life.
Read the in-depth case study of the Franciscus by my friend Dr Oliver Finnegan, Record Specialist, The National Archives, UK.
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