From Auschwitz Memorial’s Facebook:
On May 2, 1944, the
first two trains with Jews deported from Hungary arrived at the Auschwitz Camp:
1,800 people from Kistarcsa Camp next to Budapest and 2,000 People from
Topolya. They arrived at the so-called Alte Judenrampe (Old Jew Ramp) between
Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps.
After the selection, 486 men and 616 women were registered in
the camp.
2,698 people were murdered in the Gas Chambers.
The Camp Administration learned that Auschwitz was not ready
to accept the planned huge Deportations. They decided to stop Transports until
the construction of a railway ramp (the New Jew Ramp) inside the Birkenau Camp
was completed and other ‘technical’ difficulties were solved.
Then they decided,
among other things, to re-open a provisional Gas Chamber, the so-called "Little
White House", and to dig pits for burning of bodies. The main phase of
deportations of Jews from Hungary began on May 14th.
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