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Events on Monday 15 May 1944 1
1944Deportation of Hungarian JewsOver 430,000 sent to Auschwitz in eight weeksAfter Germany occupied Hungary, the Hungarian gendarmerie and Adolf Eichmann's unit organised the deportation of Jews from the provinces. Most of those deported were murdered on arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Regent Horthy halted the deportations in early July under international pressure.