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.
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.
9 April 1938 | Jewish twin girls Annette & Paulette Szklarz were born in Metz.
On 31 July 1944 Annette was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz & murdered in a gas chamber. Paulette was in the hospital with measles & survived hidden by doctors.
Paulette is Debra Barnes mother.
9 April 1925 | A Polish woman, Janina Jodłowska, was born in Krakow.
In Auschwitz from 19 January 1943.
No. 29708 (political prisoner)
She escaped during the evacuation of the camp in January 1945.
2 April 1930 | A Czech Jewish girl, Daisy Lowositzová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber.
31 March 1914 | Grisha Prishkulnik (George Preston) was born in Równe (today Rivne, Ukraine).
A Jew, an engineer educated in France. Arrested by Gestapo in Lille, he survived Auschwitz (no 160581) - Bobrek sub-camp. He emigrated to the USA. He passed away in 2006.
28 March 1917 | Norwegian Jew, Gustav Goldberg, was born in Oslo.
In Auschwitz from 1 December 1942
No. 79126
He perished in the camp on 18 December 1942.
24 March 1929 | A German Jewish boy, Horst Avraham, was born in Berlin.
In April 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
21 March 1898 | Norwegian Jew, Sigurd Levin, was born in Kristiania (today Oslo).
In November 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz. He did not survive.
His wide Dora and children Harriet and Ragnhild managed to escape to Sweden.
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14 March 1928 | Norwegian Jewish boy of Lithuanian origin, Ahren (Arne) Gordon, was born in Oslo.
He arrived at Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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.
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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 99.
19 December 1934 | Dutch Jewish boy Robert Goudsmit was born in Haren.
In December 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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27 January 1933 | A German Jewish boy, Lutz Ludwig Grünstein, was born in Berlin.
He was deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 9 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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16 January 1883 | Polish Jew, Josef Goldkranz, was born in Tomaszów Lubelski. He was a kosher inspector. During the war he lived in Marseille.
In 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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8 January 1894 | A Polish man, Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, OFM, was born in Zduńska Wola.
As a prisoner of #Auschwitz at the end of July 1941, he sacrificed his life to save a person selected for starvation death after an escape. On 14 August 1941, he was murdered with a phenol injection.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts #priest #saint #franciscans
This episode of our #OnAuschwitz podcast is dedicated to father Maximilian Kolbe who was murdered in #Auschwitz on 14 August 1941. Listen about his arrest, incarceration, sacrifice of life and death. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-23-the-sacrifice-and-death-of-father-Maximilian-Kolbe-e1mfh8m/a-a8cl79r
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