The first 30 prisoners arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp on 20th May 1940 from the Sachsenhausen camp. By the time the camp was liberated in January 1945 of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million were murdered. The number of victims includes 960,000 Jews, 74,000 non-Jewish Poles, 21,000 Romani, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and up to 15,000 others. 1/2