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Seven hundred and twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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City in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
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Auschwitz concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Poland (1940–1945)
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