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 | | An earlier SS attempt to obliterate the Birkenau Gypsy camp on May 16, 1944, had failed because of armed resistance; the prisoners fought the SS with improvised knives, shovels, wooden sticks, and stones. |
 | | By the time that Birkenau was evacuated, 13,614 Gypsies from the German Reich had died of exposure, malnutrition, disease, and brutal medical experiments, and 6,432 had been gassed; 32 had been shot while trying to escape. |
 | | It was opened on November 6, 1944 and closed when an advance unit of the Fourth Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army discovered it by accident on April 4 or 5, 1945. |
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