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How many Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944?

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Auschwitz: entrance gates — Auschwitz The entrance gates to the Auschwitz concentration camp, near Kraków, Poland; the sign reads “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Liberates”).

In 1944, following the German invasion of Hungary on March 19, the Nazis initiated a rapid and intense campaign of deportation. Over a period of 55 days, beginning on May 15, 1944, more than 437,000 Jews were deported from Hungary to Auschwitz on 147 trains.1