article_snippet.sent: Between May 16 and July 11, 1944 'The Bookkeeper' was on duty when 450,000 Hungarian Jews were transported there, with 300,000 being gassed just after arrival.
article_snippet.sent: it was completely understood by all that the majority were going straight to the gas chamber, although some believed the majority were only going to be showered before going to work.
article_snippet.sent: Many Jews knew Many Jews were going to die. '
article_snippet.sent: On one night in January 1943 I saw for the first time how Many Jews were actually gassed.
article_snippet.sent: It was in a half-built farmyard near to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.
article_snippet.sent: A gas chamber was built there.
article_snippet.sent: We were searching the wood nearby for prisoners who had escaped.
article_snippet.sent: Between May 16 and July 11, 1944 he was on duty when 450,000 Hungarian Jews were transported there, with 300,000 being gassed just after arrival.
article_snippet.sent: There were more than 100 prisoners and soon there were panic-filled cries as more than 100 prisoners were herded into A gas chamber and the door was shut. '
article_snippet.sent: Then a sergeant with a gas mask went to a hole in the wall and from a tin shook Zyklon B gas pellets inside.
article_snippet.sent: her was gassed 75 days after her sixth birthday on June 3 1944.
highlights_snippet.sent: Charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder in 2 months in 1944 .
  