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The episode discusses the deportations of Slovakian Jews to Auschwitz and the camp's transformation during that period.

Among the many groups of people deported to the German camp Auschwitz, Slovakian Jews occupied a special place. They were brought to the camp at a time when it was undergoing fundamental, organizational and functional transformation. From a place of concentration and gradual destruction of prisoners through dramatic living conditions and hard labor to a center of mass extermination in gas chambers. Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, the head of the research center of the Auschwitz Museum, recounts the details of this process. ===== On-line lesson about the deportations of Jews from Slovakia =====Voiceover: Michael Takiff

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