Auschwitz Memorial

Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account at Mastodon. You can also find us on:

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Themes: #Auschwitz #Holocaust #Shoah #antisemitism #WorldWar2 #ww2 #memory #history #Nazis #genocide #museums

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2026-02-07 00:00:24 UTC

7 February 1892 | A Czech Jewish woman Pavla Brucková was born in Kolín.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 9 October 1944. She did not survive.
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The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz & the so-called family camp created in Birkenau by the SS: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/z-getta-w-theresienstadt-do-obozu-auschwitz-ii-birkenau/gQiyl0Ei?hl=en
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2026-01-24 06:00:11 UTC

24 January 1890 | A Polish Jew, Lejb Berant, was born in Drzewica. A bookmaker.
In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 37440
He perished in the camp on 17 July 1942.
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🎧 Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
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2025-11-05 09:00:41 UTC

5 November 1905 | A Pole, Tadeusz Mróz, was born in Krakow. A painter.
In #Auschwitz from 25 April 1942.
No. 33153
He was shot in the camp on 27 May 1942.
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Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: https://t.co/VBgDxkWLMa
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2025-10-23 02:01:11 UTC

23 October 1878 | A Czech Jewish woman, Marie Hirschová, was born.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 October 1944. After the selection she was murdered in a gas chamber.
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Women at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
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2025-10-11 23:00:14 UTC

12 October 1920 | Italian Jewish woman Virginia Montalcini was born in Turin.
On 30 January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. After the selection she was murdered in a gas chamber.
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A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
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2025-09-10 14:00:47 UTC

10 September 1894 | A Czech Jewish woman, Ida Pirnerová, was born in Český Brod.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 December 1943. She did not survive.
The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz & the so-called family camp created in Birkenau by the SS: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/z-getta-w-theresienstadt-do-obozu-auschwitz-ii-birkenau/gQiyl0Ei?hl=en
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2025-09-10 13:00:55 UTC

10 September 1930 | An Italian Jewish woman, Liliana Segre, was born in Milan.
In January 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her father Alberto who perished in the camp in April 1944.
Liliana survived. Today, she is a Senator for life in #Italy and turns 95.
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2025-09-10 11:00:27 UTC

10 September 1925 | A Polish Jew, Hersz Nejman, was born in Raciąż. He emigrated to Belgium.
On 26 August 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz from Mechelen / Malines. He did not survive.
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2025-09-10 08:00:13 UTC

10 September 1897 | A Pole, Władysław Prauss, was born in Warsaw. A lawyer.
In #Auschwitz from 14 April 1942.
No. 29617
He perished in the camp on 28 July 1942.
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2025-08-08 05:00:11 UTC

8 August 1865 | Dutch Jew, Hartog Doof, was born in Amsterdam. He emigrated to Belgium.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 18 September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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2025-08-07 20:00:15 UTC

7 August 1938 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Jacob Vischjager, was born in Amsterdam.
In November 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered after selection in a gas chamber.
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2025-08-07 19:00:13 UTC

7 August 1942 | A transport of 1014 Jews deported from Beaune-la-Rolande in occupied France arrived at #Auschwitz: 588 men and boys and 426 women and girls.
After arrival selection made by SS doctors, 214 men and 96 women were registered in the camp. Of these, five men and one woman survived the war.
The remaining 704 people were murdered immediately in the gas chambers. Among them was Chaja Krebs who was born in Jarosław.
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2025-08-07 11:00:15 UTC

7 August 1866 | Italian Jewish woman, Adele Basevi, was born in Brescia.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Milan on 30 January 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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2025-08-04 05:00:10 UTC

4 August 1884 | German Jewish woman, Agnes Scholl (nee Eissler), was born in Wiesenbach. She emigrated to Belgium.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 15 January 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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2025-08-01 04:40:20 UTC

1 August 1915 | A Polish Jewish woman, Fradja Azous, was born in Warsaw. She emigrated to France.
In September 1942 she was deported from Pithiviers to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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2025-07-25 23:00:17 UTC

26 July 1927 | A French Jewish girl, Fanny Brauch, was born in Paris.
In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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2025-07-17 13:00:43 UTC

17 July 1944 | Jane Haining, a Church of Scotland missionary in Budapest perished in the German Nazi Auschwitz camp.
Her last message to friends was a postcard asking for food. She ended her letter with the words: “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.”
Jane Haining (b. 1897) was arrested in Budapest by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz. On 14 May 1944, she was registered in the camp as prisoner 79467.
She was recognized by the Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
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2025-07-17 07:00:30 UTC

17 July 1932 | Jewish boy, Maximilian Ullmann, was born in Stuttgart. Son of an Austrian Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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2025-07-15 14:00:51 UTC

15 July 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Jeannette Rotbaum, was born in Paris.
In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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2025-07-14 14:01:09 UTC

14 July 1872 | A Polish Jew, Szulim Fajgenblat, was born in Będzin.
In 1942 he was deported from Będzin ghetto to #Auschwitz and was murdered in a gas chamber.
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2025-07-12 02:00:27 UTC

12 July 1919 | A German Jew, Kurt Bachrach, was born in Schwalenberg. He emigrated to The Netherlands.
He was most probably deported to #Auschwitz in 1943. He did not survive.
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2025-07-10 20:00:43 UTC

10 July 1902 | Russian Jewish woman Tsipa Gast was born in Chernigov. She emigrated to France.
In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy with her husband Mozes (Moshe). They did not survive.
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2025-07-08 16:01:17 UTC

8 July 1942 | Probably the first time a public execution by hanging took place in #Auschwitz.
Two Polish prisoners: Tadeusz Pejsik (12549) and Henryk Pajączkowski (22867) were murdered. They had been captured after the escape from the penal company on 10 June 1942.
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2025-07-06 17:00:38 UTC

6 July 1912 | A Czech, František Slezak, was born in Olešnice. A worker.
In #Auschwitz from 20 May 1942.
No. 35905
He perished in the camp on 7 June 1942.
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2025-06-30 16:01:24 UTC

30 June 1942 | 400 Slovak Jews transferred from Majdanek camp were registered in #Auschwitz.
Among them was Rudolf Vrba (in the camp as Walter Rosenberg, no. 44070). He escaped on 7 April 1944 with Alfred Wetzler. Co-author of a report about extermination of Jews in the camp.
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2025-06-30 13:01:04 UTC

30 June 1944 | A transport of some 1,000 Jews - men, women & children from Fossoli di Carpi camp in occupied #Italy arrived at the selection platform at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. SS doctors during the selection sent 180 men & 50 women to the camp. The remaining were murdered in a gas chamber.
On the same day a transport of 2,044 Jews from #Athens & #Korfu Island arrived. SS doctors sent 446 men & 175 women to the camp. The remaining 1,423 people were murdered in a gas chamber.

2025-06-30 11:15:18 UTC

30 June 1928 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Elizke Hantala Szabo, was born.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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2025-06-27 23:00:19 UTC

28 June 1910 | Italian Jewish woman, Elda Colombo, was born in Turin.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Milan on 30 January 1944. She did not survive.
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2025-06-25 11:00:41 UTC

25 June 1928 | German Jewish girl, Ruth Marion Weile, was born in Magdeburg. She emigrated to the Netherlands.
In September 1943 she was deported from Westerbork to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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2025-06-18 05:00:33 UTC

18 June 1936 | German Jewish girl, Ursula Gerson, was born in Munich. She emigrated to the Netherlands in June 1939.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 5 September 1944 in a transport of 1,019 Jews deported from #Westerbork. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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2025-06-17 20:00:41 UTC

17 June 1856 | Dutch Jewish woman, Rachel Kiek-van Amerongen, was born in Amsterdam.
In August 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber immediately after arrival selection.
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2025-06-17 17:01:59 UTC

17 June 1896 | A Polish man, Jan Andrzejak, was born in Chodybki. A blacksmith.
In #Auschwitz from 14 October 1941
No. 21485
He perished in the camp on 18 March 1942.
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2025-06-17 16:02:50 UTC

17 June 1943 | SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Mengele officially began his duties as a camp doctor within the Auschwitz camp garrison (Lagerarzt).
He was responsible for criminal pseudo-medical experiments on Roma and Sinti prisoners, as well as twins, mainly Jewish.
Listen to our podcast about Josef Mengele: https://youtu.be/M1OKQb1EPyw
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2025-06-16 20:00:40 UTC

16 June 1888 | Czech Jewish woman, Elsa Bergsteinová, was born in Prague.
She was deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz on 4 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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2025-06-15 05:00:27 UTC

15 June 1885 | A German Jew, Max Reinhaus, was born in Stadtlohn. In 1938 he fled to The Netherlands.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in February 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection with his wife Clara.
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2025-06-15 02:00:26 UTC

15 June 1895 | A Polish Jew, Jakub Zyman, was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki.
In #Auschwitz from 12 February 1942.
No. 21799
He perished in the camp on 20 February 1942.
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2025-06-14 17:00:47 UTC

14 June 1886 | German Jewish woman, Jenny Strahl, was born in Berlin. She emigrated to Belgium.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 19 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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2025-06-14 15:00:46 UTC

Auschwitz was the first concentration camp established by the Germans after the outbreak of WW2 in the occupied Poland. 14 June 1940 is considered the date of its creation, as on that day, the first Poles were deported there from Tarnów – 728 prisoners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKOZLEUo2QM

2025-06-13 05:00:31 UTC

13 June 1882 | A German Jewish woman, Helene Dorner, was born in Berlin.
In June 1943 she was incarcerated in Theresienstadt Ghetto and in October 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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2025-06-11 14:01:28 UTC

11 June 1883 | A German Jew, Siegfried Kessler, was born in Iserlohn.
He was deported to #Auschwitz in March 1943 from Munich and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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2025-06-10 02:00:16 UTC

10 June 1927 | A Czech Jewish boy, František Katz, was born in Prague.
He was deported from Theresienstadt Ghetto to #Auschwitz on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.
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2025-06-07 20:00:36 UTC

7 June 1904 | A Jewish man, Salvatore Capelluto, was born on Rhodes Island.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 16 August 1944. He did not survive.
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2025-06-07 05:00:27 UTC

7 June 1932 | French Jewish boy, Georges Grynspan, was born in Paris.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 18 September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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2025-06-07 02:00:26 UTC

7 June 1900 | Czech Jew Erwin Haas was born in Olomouc. An electro-mechanic.
In #Auschwitz from 11 June 1942.
No. 39282
He perished in the camp on 26 June 1942.
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2025-06-04 17:01:26 UTC

4 June 1890 | A Polish woman, Anastazja Onik, was born in Żuków.
In #Auschwitz from 15 January 1943.
No. 28821
She perished in the camp on 29 June 1943.
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2025-06-03 17:01:22 UTC

3 June 1922 | A Polish man, Henryk Broda, was born in Jędrzejów.
In #Auschwitz from 22 September 1940.
No. 4432
He perished in the camp on 8 August 1941.
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2025-06-02 14:02:24 UTC

2 June 1934 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Jacob Louis Halle was born in Amsterdam.
In August 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz with his parents Leopold & Johanna and brother Robert. The mother & boys were murdered after selection in a gas chamber. The father perished some weeks later.
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2025-06-01 23:00:26 UTC

2 June 1931 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Josua Boesenach, was born in The Hague.
In November 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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2025-05-26 14:01:35 UTC

26 May 1929 | A Czech Jewish girl, Marie Fischerová, was born.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 16 October 1944. She did not survive.
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2025-05-26 11:00:40 UTC

26 May 1885 | A German Jewish woman, Margarete Horwitz, was born in Berlin. During the war she lived in Amsterdam.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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2025-05-26 10:00:28 UTC

Webinar: "Functionary prisoners at Auschwitz
26 May | 4 pm (CEST)
The participation is free. Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_Rjz_KPddxsNGpNi0qM9UXWAgwFxF-avZIslTdONLs8KE0Q/viewform
16:05-17:35 | Functionary Prisoners in KL Auschwitz - Lecture by Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, Auschwitz Museum
17:40-18:25 | "He Belonged to the Moderately Bad…" Following the First Thirty Functionary Prisoners of KL Auschwitz – Lecture by Andrzej Domagała, Author of the Book
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2025-05-26 08:00:36 UTC

26 May 1894 | A Czech, Anton Krivanek, was born in Vranovice. A bricklayer.
In #Auschwitz from 24 October 1941.
No. 22085
He perished in the camp on 27 January 1942.
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2025-05-26 05:00:28 UTC

26 May 1939 | Dutch Jewish boy, Carel Gans, was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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2025-05-26 02:00:21 UTC

26 May 1907 | Austrian Jewish woman, Paula Strauss, was born in Vienna. She emigrated to France.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 12 August 1942. She did not survive.
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2025-05-25 23:00:21 UTC

26 May 1913 | A Polish Jew, Wolf Altman, was born in Radom. A worker.
In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942.
No. 22717
Date of death: 16 March 1942.
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2025-05-25 11:00:28 UTC

25 May 1937 | A French Jewish boy, Roger Fajlewicz, was born in Paris.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 6 February 1944 in a transport of 1,214 Jews deported from Drancy. He was amon 999 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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2025-05-25 08:00:15 UTC

25 May 1881 | A German Sinti woman, Dorothea Thormann, was born in Bremervörde.
In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 24 March 1943.
No. Z-5629
She perished in the camp on 21 May 1943.

2025-05-25 02:00:20 UTC

25 May 1892 | Jewish man, Bernhard Davidsen, was born in Vitebsk. He emigrated to Norway in 1912. A coachman.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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2025-05-24 23:00:18 UTC

25 May 1931 | A Czech Jewish boy, Ivo Rubin, was born in Prague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 4 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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2025-05-24 17:00:39 UTC

24 May 1911 | A Polish woman, Helena Nowak, was born in Radom. A tailor.
In #Auschwitz from 22 January 1943.
No. 30644
She perished in the camp on 7 May 1943.
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2025-05-24 14:00:40 UTC

24 May 1942 | A Jewish boy, Tamas Ovits, was born in Marosvásárhely (then in Hungary, today Târgu Mureș in Romania) to Tibor and Lili.
In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz where he was murdered in a gas chamber.
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2025-05-23 15:00:50 UTC

23 May 1944 | A transport of 1,200 French Jews arrived at #Auschwitz from Drancy. After the selection, 221 men & 247 women were registered in the camp.
The remaining 723 people were murdered in gas chambers. Among them was Harriet Nordmann. She was almost 3 years old.
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2025-05-22 02:00:22 UTC

22 May 1900 | A Czech Jewish woman, Elsa Menzelová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 28 October 1944. She did not survive.
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2025-05-17 20:00:31 UTC

17 May 1935 | A Norwegian Jewish boy, Arvid Claes, was born in Oslo.
He was deported to #Auschwitz in November 1942. He arrived at the camp on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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2025-05-17 17:00:36 UTC

17 May 1917 | Polish man, Zdzisław Niewiadomski, was born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki. A waver.
In #Auschwitz from 11 December 1941
No. 24144
He perished in the camp on 6 May 1942
Look at him before the incarceration & in the registration image from Auschwitz.
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2025-05-16 15:01:10 UTC

16 May 1944 | The main phase of extermination of Hungarian Jews began at the German #Auschwitz camp. Three trains arrived on that day: ca. 9,000 people were murdered in gas chambers. Until 9 July, 142 trains brought ca. 420,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/
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2025-05-11 20:00:23 UTC

11 May 1934 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Györgyi Einhorn, was born.
In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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2025-05-09 23:00:24 UTC

10 May 1910 | Leon (Leba) Rajbenbach, a Polish Jew, was born in Warsaw to Pinkhus and Braindel. He emigrated to France where he worked as a merchant. During the war he lived in Paris.
In 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
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2025-05-08 12:00:49 UTC

8 May 1945 | The 1st Soviet units passed through Terezín towards Prague. The #Theresienstadt ghetto was liberated. Over 140,000 Jews were imprisoned in the ghetto - 35,000 of them perished there. On this very same day the war in #Europe ended.
Read more: https://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/liberation
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2025-05-07 02:00:24 UTC

7 May 1904 | A Slovak Jewish woman, Irena Holzmanová, was born in Močidľany.
On 15 September 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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2025-05-06 23:00:28 UTC

7 May 1922 | A Czech Jew, Hanuš Kolben, was born in Ústí nad Labem.
He was deported from Theresienstadt Ghetto to #Auschwitz on 28 September 1944. He perished in KL Dachau on 23 March 1945.
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2025-05-05 14:01:47 UTC

5 May 1928 | An Italian Jewish girl Giuseppina Da Fano was born in Rhodes.
She was deported to #Auschwitz in July 1944. She did not survive.
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2025-05-02 23:00:44 UTC

3 May 1901 | A Polish Jew, Mordka Hoch, was born in Radom. A baker.
In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 37498
He perished in the camp on 2 August 1942.
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2025-04-29 10:00:55 UTC

29 April 1945 | The US Army soldiers liberated #Dachau - the first concentration camp created in Nazi Germany which became a model camp for the entire SS concentration camps system. Over 205,000 people were imprisoned there between 1933-1945. Some 41,500 were murdered there.
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2025-04-25 05:00:33 UTC

25 April 1925 | French Jewish girl, Marthe Suzanne Tepfer, was born in Luneville.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 8 November 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She did not survive.
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2025-04-22 20:01:06 UTC

22 April 1932 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Paulette Liliane, Buschel, was born in Antwerp.
In 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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2025-04-18 08:00:53 UTC

18 April 1870 | A Jewish man, Salamon Kornbaum, was born. During the war he lived in Sighetu Marmației / Máramarossziget.
In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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2025-02-14 09:00:14 UTC

14 February 1894 | A Polish woman, Anna Nędza, was born in Mszana Dolna.
In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943.
No. 32357
She perished in the camp on 27 April 1943.
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2025-02-12 15:00:29 UTC

12 February 1910 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Blanka Krausz, was born. She was a piano teacher.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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2025-02-12 12:00:31 UTC

12 February 1920 | A German Jewish woman, Hildegard Rheinstein, was born in Frankfurt am Main.
On 16 September 1942 she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, from where she was deported to #Auschwitz on 23 October 1944. She did not survive.
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2025-02-12 10:00:11 UTC

See our new educational materials that delve into the strategies employed by Holocaust deniers to spread misinformation and falsehoods about the history of Auschwitz.
🔹 Online lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/negacjonizm_en/
🔹 Podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-56-Holocaust-denial---strategies-of-lies-and-distortion-e2uora8/a-abpcnrr
In the picture: gas chamber and crematorium IV at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
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2025-02-12 09:00:16 UTC

12 February 1902 | A Polish woman, Kunegunda Nowakowska, was born in Będzin.
In #Auschwitz from 24 January 1943.
Mr. 31254
She perished in the camp on 16 April 1943.
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2025-02-10 00:00:16 UTC

10 February 1885 | A German Jew, Alfred Dänn, was born in Wohlau. A merchant.
In #Auschwitz from 18 September 1942.
No. 64312
He perished in the camp 8 days later.
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2025-02-09 09:00:22 UTC

9 February 1891 | Greta Fabian was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. On 1 March 1943, together with her sister Gertrud, she was deported to Auschwitz on the 31st transport of Jews from Berlin. They were both murdered, probably right after arrival at Auschwitz, on 2 March 1943.
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2025-02-09 03:00:14 UTC

9 February 1929 | A French Jewish boy, Raymond Bialek, was born in Paris.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 9 August 1942 in a transport of 1,069 Jews deported from Pithiviers. He was among the 794 people murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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2025-02-08 15:00:03 UTC

8 February 1921 | A Polish Jew, Hersz Rozebnaum, was born in Radom. A baker.
In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942.
No. 23100
He perished in the camp on 28 March 1942.
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2025-02-08 10:00:13 UTC

8 February 1943 | A transport of 2,000 Jewish men, women, and children arrived at #Auschwitz from the ghetto in Białystok.
After arrival selection, 75 men and 95 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 1,830 people were murdered in gas chambers.

2025-02-08 00:00:15 UTC

8 February 1908 | A German Jewish woman, Lotte Klingelhöfer, was born in Berlin.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 5 March 1943. She did not survive.
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2025-01-29 16:28:33 UTC

29 January 1943 | The RSHA ordered the deportation of all Roma people from Germany and German-occupied territories to Auschwitz. At least 23,000 Sinti & Roma were later deported there. Most were murdered.
Learn about their story:
🔹 see our e-lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschwitz
🔹 listen to the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb31osDbyk0
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2025-01-17 18:00:08 UTC

17 January 1900 | Greek Jew, Joseph Agi, was born in Thessaloniki. He emigrated to France and got French nationality.
He was deported to #Auschwitz in the first transport of Jews from occupied France on 27 February 1942.
No. 27929
He perished in the camp on 9 April 1942.
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2025-01-11 15:00:16 UTC

11 January 1914 | Irish Jewish woman of Czech origin Esther (Ettie) Steinberg was born.
In Dublin she married Vogtjeck Gluck & moved first to Antwerp & then to Paris. On 2 September 1942 the couple was deported to Auschwitz with their son Léon. None of them survived.
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2024-12-16 18:00:23 UTC

16 December 1937 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Max Henri van Son, was born in Rotterdam.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 October 1942 in a transport of 1,014 Jews deported from Westerbork. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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2024-11-22 18:00:18 UTC

22 November 1880 | A Dutch Jew, Edgar Alvares Correa, was born in Curaçao (constituent country of the Netherlands).
He arrived at Auschwitz on 25 March 1944 in a transport of 599 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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2024-09-29 11:00:03 UTC

29 September 1907 | A Czech Jew, Alfred Marburg, was born in Rýmařov.
He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.
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2024-05-24 15:00:04 UTC

24 May 1911 | A Polish woman, Helena Nowak, was born in Radom. A tailor.
In Auschwitz from 22 January 1943.
No. 30644
She perished in the camp on 7 May 1943.
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2024-05-24 12:00:23 UTC

24 May 1940 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Philip Cohen, was born in Amsterdam.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 18 February 1943 in a transport of 1,108 Jews deported from Westerbork. He was among 847 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
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2024-05-24 09:00:08 UTC

24 May 1930 | A French Jewish girl, Tova Zarcon, was born in Paris.
On 20 January 1944 she was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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2024-05-10 16:00:20 UTC

10 May 1939 | A French Jewish girl, Monique Cofman, was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan.
She arrived at Auschwitz on 8 November 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 773 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
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2024-03-12 21:00:04 UTC

12 March 1940 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Esther Lijmer, was born in Amsterdam.
In January 1943 she was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz with her mother Naatje. Both were murdered in a gas chamber.
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2024-03-12 18:00:04 UTC

12 March 1939 | A French Jewish boy, Roger Portigheis, was born in Nice.
He arrived at Auschwitz on 20 December 1943 in a transport of 850 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 505 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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