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23 June 1909 | Hungarian Jewish woman Yolande Deutsch was born. She emigrated to Paris. In December 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy. She did not survive.

17 June 1901 | Hunagrian Jew Miklós Nyiszli was born in Somlyo (today Şimleu Silvanie). Expert in forensic pathology. In #Auschwitz from 29 May 1944 No. A-8450 Doctor Josef Mengele used him in a specially built autopsy room in crematorium II at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. He survived and died in 1956.

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.

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.

9 June 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Gyuri Köppich, was born. In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

7 June 1921 | Piotr Tchutchalin was born. A Soviet army soldier. In #Auschwitz from October 1941. No. R-1649 (Soviet prisoner of war) He perished in the camp on 5 March 1942.

2 June 1942 | A Pole, Tadeusz Polaczek-Kornecki (b. 1885), perished in #Auschwitz. A mechanical engineer, the director of Cracow Municipal Electrical Railway. Vice-chairman of Wisła Kraków multi-sport club. The Germans registered him in the camp on 18 May 1942 as no. 35727.

1 June 1937 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Manuel Scheffer, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber together with his mother, Rachel.

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.

2 June 1924 | A Polish Jew, Dawid Bizunier, was born. In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942. No. 23216 He perished in the camp on 23 March 1942.

28 May 1927 | Norwegian Jewish boy of Lithuanian origin, Alf Abel Goldwasser, was born in Oslo. He arrived at Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

28 May 1903 | Pole Ludwik Stankiewicz was born in Muszyna. A weaver. In #Auschwitz from 5 April 1941. No. 12095 He was shot in the camp on 11 November 1941.

25 May 1948 | Witold Pilecki was executed in Warsaw. A Polish soldier, a volunteer prisoner of the German #Auschwitz camp, a co-founder of the camp resistance. He escaped in April 1943 & wrote a report about the crimes in the camp. Our podcast: www.auschwitz.org/en/education...

25 May 1929 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Edit Spitzer, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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.

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.

21 May 1927 | Czech Jewish boy, Otto Fink, was born in Vroutek. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 October 1942. He did not survive.

18 May 1925 | A German Jew, Max Rack, was born in Duisburg. From December 1934 he lived in the Netherlands. In spring 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and registered in the camp where he perished on 5 August 1942.

18 May 1888 | A Polish Jew, Jehuda Isidor Luks, was born in Krynica. He lived in Antwerp. In the autumn of 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

14 May 1920 | A Czech, Jan Husak, was born in Roudnice nad Labem. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 20 May 1942. No. 35892 He perished in the camp on 8 July 1942.

What were conditions like for the women imprisoned at #Ravensbrück? Our online case study at #TheHolocaustExplained explores the history of the camp, as well as key aspects of the lives of those held there. Explore now: buff.ly/HUJp3H4

12 May 1917 | A Jewish woman, Suzanne Feldmann, was born. A stenographer. During the war she lived in France. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 2 September 1943. She did not survive.

11 May 1903 | A French Jew, Léon Mozes, was born in Paris. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 30 June 1944. He did not survive.

11 May 1943 | At 7 p.m. in the SS kitchen building, an opera performance of "Charming Maiden" (Bezauberndes Fraulein) by Ralph Benatzky took place. Hella Witt from the Viennese theater "Raimund" played the leading role.

The two pictures are 11 years apart. On 10 May 1933 the Nazi party staged 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.

10 May 1912 | Dutch Jewish woman, Ester Koekoek-Hakker, was born at The Hague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in December 1942. She did not survive.

Margot ❤️

9 May 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Marcel Jacobs, was born in Enschede. He was deported to #Auschwitz in February 1943 with his mother Rika and his 7-year-old sister Marlene. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

Alles Dunkel ..

5 May 1899 | A Czech Jewish woman, Františka Pollaková, was born in Prague. Deported from Theresienstadt to #Auschwitz on 23 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

5 May 1936 | A French Jewish boy, Tomy Lachman, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 21 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 817 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

2 May 1891 | A Polish men, Zygmunt Kołakowski, was born in Częstochowa. A clerk. In #Auschwitz from 23 May 1941. No. 15881 He perished in the camp on 2 August 1941.

1 May 1911 | A Frenchman, Jean Reich, was born in Arcueil. In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1942. No. 46041 He perished in the camp on 14 February 1943.

28 April 1898 | A Polish man, Aleksander Jaroszek, was born in Radom. A clerk. In #Auschwitz from 11 December 1941. No. 23954 He perished in the camp on 19 January 1942.

27 April 1891 | Czech Jew, Emil Siebenschein, was born in Strážnica. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.

27 April 1937 | Czech Jewish girl, Ruth Fischerová, was born in Prague. She was deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz on 18 May 1944. She was placed in the family camp BIIb at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She did not survive.

27 April 1910 | A Polish man, Tadeusz Powalisz, was born in Poznań. A teacher. In #Auschwitz from 5 April 1941. No. 11312 He was shot in the camp on 14 June 1942.

20 April 1933 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Sophia Kaatje van Hasselt, was born in Oosterwolde. In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz together with her parents Simon and Geertje, and her older sister Hermi. None of them survived.

21 April 1934 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Edith Roseij Beek, was born in Oss. She was deported to #Auschwitz in November 1943 and murdered in a gas chamber.

21 April 1935 | A French Jewish boy, Jean Louis Wajnberg, was born in Amiens. He was deported to #Auschwitz in January 1944 with his parents: Chasis (Asia) and Benajamin. They were most probably murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

21 April 1894 | A Polish man, Wojciech Gawrys, was born in Osiek. A farming inspector. In #Auschwitz from 24 May 1941. No. 16114 He perished in the camp on 8 August 1941.

16 April 1944 | The 71st transport of Jews deported from German-occupied #France arrived at #Auschwitz from #Drancy. SS doctors selected 165 men and 223 women to be registered in the camp as prisoners. The remaining 1,112 people were murdered immediately in gas chambers.