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24 June 1881 | A German Jew, rabbi Martin Salomonski, was born in Berlin.
In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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13 June 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Naomi Plattner, was born.
In June 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.
In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
10 June 1880 | Polish Jewish woman, Feiga Natansohn, was born in Lubartów. She emigrated to Belgium.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 18 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
7 June 1906 | A Polish woman, Zofia Piotrowska, was born in Tarnopol. A nurse.
In Auschwitz from 19 January 1943.
No. 29901
She perished in the camp on 24 February 1943.
4 June 1907 | A Polish Jew, Bernhard Rosenzweig, was born in Oświęcim.
In Auschwitz from 26 February 1942.
No. 25511
He perished in the camp on 15 March 1942.
A heartbreaking moment that was saved by an SS photographer at Auschwitz II-Birkenau during the deportations of Hungarian Jews. It was taken 80 years ago, most likely in late May 1944. A little child finds a dandelion in the grass and is handing it or showing it to an older boy.
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24 May 1903 | A Czech Jew, Viktor Beneš, was born.
He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 15 May 1944. He did not survive.
20 May 1885 | A Polish man, Feliks Guliński, was born in Gostyń Wielkopolski. A soldier.
In #Auschwitz from 14 May 1942.
No. 35434
He perished in the camp on 24 July 1942.
15 May 1941 | A Yugoslavian (Bosnian) Jewish girl, Leah Miriam Brainer, was born in Tuzla.
In 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
12 May 1944 | A group of 39 Roma and Sinti children (20 boys and 19 girls) deported from the St. Josefspflege orphanage in Mulfingen, near Stuttgart were registered at Birkenau. Dr. Robert Ritter and Eva Justin of the Institute for the Study of Racial Hygiene carried out various tests on them before deportation.
The main purpose of this research was to confirm that the supposed "Gypsy" traits were inborn. When the children became useless, they could be deported.
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Only four of the children survived. Here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzEUO8YNKuc) you can see footage taken at St. Josefspflege orphanage, c. 1943, by Eva Justin for her PhD dissertation.
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Learn about the fate of some 23 thousand Roma and Sinti deported to Auschwitz.
🔹 online lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschwitz/
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🔹 podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-7-the-fate-of-Roma-and-Sinti-in-Auschwitz-e15lgul
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The two pictures are 11 years apart.
On 10 May 1933, the Nazi party staged an ideological spectacle of burning of 'un-German’ books.
2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber V, 1944.
Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead to.
6 May 1940 | Betty Vredenburg, a Dutch Jewish girl, was born in Amsterdam to Abraham and Rachel.
She was murdered in a gas chamber of the Auschwitz camp on 21 May 1944.
3 May 1880 | A Polish Jewish woman, Bluma Sternberg, was born in Chrzanów. She lived in the town of Oświęcim (that Germans turned into Auschwitz).
In June 1943 she was deported to Auschwitz from the ghetto in Będzin. She was murdered in a gas chamber.
27 April 1910 | Dutch Jewish woman, Sara Schelvis-Piller, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Westerbork in September 1943. She did not survive.
19 April 1943 | Groups of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began the uprising against Germans. It lasted 27 days.
Today we remember the bravery & sacrifice of people who chose to resist against impossible odds to die in dignity & save the human spirit.
More: https://sztetl.org.pl/en/glossary/warsaw-ghetto-uprising
14 April 1920 | Czech Jewish woman, Věra Immergutová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 19 October 1944. She did not survive.
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