Notices by Auschwitz Memorial (auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world)

21 February 1931 | German Jewish boy, Alfred Guttmann, was born in Duisburg. He left Germany in a so-called Children’s transport. Adopted by a family in Haarlem.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1943 & murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

19 February 1922 | Władyslaw Bartoszewski was born. Prisoner of Auschwitz (4427), Home Army member, activist of "Żegota" Council, participant of the Warsaw Uprising; historian & writer; Chairman of International Auschwitz Council, Founder of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.

Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The unloading and selection platform and the gate leading to a road between sectors BIIc and BIId. This road connected the ramp with gas chambers and crematoria IV and V.

(Photo: http://instagram.com/evetaylor18)

17 February 1941 | Franciscan Fr. Maximilian Kolbe was arrested by Germans in Niepokalanów. He was first sent to Pawiak prison in Warsaw and then to Auschwitz, where he finally sacrificed his life - volunteered to replace Franciszek Gajowniczek, sentenced to starvation death.

Podcast about the fate of Fr. Maximilian Kolbe: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-23-the-sacrifice-and-death-of-father-Maximilian-Kolbe-e1mfh8m

Online lesson "Christian Clergy and Religious Life at Auschwitz": http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_18_duchowienstwo/

16 February 1926 | A German Jewish girl Margot Frank, Anna's older sister, was born in Frankfurt. She and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam. After being arrested they were deported with their parents to #Auschwitz. The sisters perished in Bergen-Belsen.

15 February 1944 | A Polish woman Natalia Hiszpańska (b. 1904) perished in the Auschwitz camp hospital. She was an architect, a scout leader and a second lieutenant. She was engaged in resistance activities during the war.

In the camp from 25 August 1943. No. 55813.

15 February 1913 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Esther Zwaap-Philipse, was born in Rotterdam.

She was incarcerated in Theresientadt ghetto in September 1944 and from there, on 6 October 1944, deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

14 February 1932 | Polish Jewish girl, Bertha Müller, was born in Krakow. In July 1939 her family emigrated to Norway.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 March 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber with her mother Cyla after arrival selection.

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.

10 February 1932 | German Jewish girl, Ruth Mentzel, was born in Berlin. She emigrated to France.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 31 July 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

Most Jews deported by Nazi Germany to Auschwitz for extermination were given the illusion of resettlement & new life. They packed their suitcases with all the essential items. Hope became one of the most important weapons.

Many suitcases we preserve and display at the Memorial are unique personal documents as they carry the names of
their owners.

Listen about the plunder of property in Auschwitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gse2mP3ZWVY

(Photo: http://instagram.com/mariapitariu)

4 February 1925 | A French Jewish woman, Ginette Kolinka (née Cherkasky), was born in Paris.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy in April 1944. She was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and then to Theresienstadt. She survived.
Today she turns 100.

1 February 1928 | A Czech Jewish boy Petr Ginz was born in Prague. In #Theresienstadt Ghetto he was an editor-in-chief of a #magazine "Vedem" (In the lead): http://vedem-terezin.cz/en/home_en.html | Ginz was deported to #Auschwitz on 28 September 1944 and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army.

1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over.
Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

25 January 1930 | A Polish Jewish boy, Icek Cymbler, was born in Będzin.

He was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz most probably during the liquidation of the Będzin ghetto in 1943.

Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The gate that led into the isolated area of gas chamber and crematorium II.

(Photo: http://instagram.com/terjefday)

21 January 1929 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Sophia Philips, was born in Heerlen.

In January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

21 January 1924 | French Jew, Henri Bockfeld, was born in Paris.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 20 January 1944. He did not survive.

20 January 1899 | A Pole, Józef Chudzio, was born in Medyka. A railwayman.

In #Auschwitz from 24 October 1941.
No. 22099
He perished in the camp on 11 February 1942.