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3 July 1927 | Dutch Jewish girl, Martha Veterman, was born in Zwolle.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. She did not survive.

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2 July 1947 | The act of the Polish Parliament officially created Oświęcim-Brzezinka (Auschwitz-Birkenau) State Museum

Our online lesson about the first years of the Auschwitz Museum: https://t.co/aCJh2wCNTb

A podcast about its history: https://t.co/D4DxqxT82A

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30 June 2017 | French Jewish Auschwitz Survivor Simone Veil passed away.

She was born in 1927. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy in April 1944. Later, she was transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated.

After the war, she became a lawyer & politician and the first female President of the European Parliament.

Read more about Simone Veil:
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30 June 1928 | A Polish Jew, Oskar Müller, was born in Chorzów. His family emigrated to Norway.

He was deported to #Auschwitz on 25 February 1943, he was registered in the camp. Most probably he perished during the Death March in January 1945.

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29 June 1904 | Polish man, Zygmunt Porębski, was born in Warsaw. A car mechanic. He was a technician at the Tatra Auto company.

During the war, he was arrested as a result of a denunciation that he was helping a Jewish coworker, Józef Frenkel.

In #Auschwitz from 22 September 1940
No. 5433
In 1941, he was transferred to Sachsenhausen. He survived the war.

He worked as a driver at Polish Radio.
Zygmunt Porębski passed in 1983.

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On our YouTube page, we share videos on the history of Auschwitz, as well as footage of commemorative events, educational materials, webinars, and podcasts. We hope these resources will help everyone interested in this important history.

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25 June 1943 | A transport of 1,018 Jews deported from Drancy in occupied France arrived at #Auschwitz.

After the selection, 383 men & 217 women were registered in the camp. 418 people were murdered in a gas chamber.

One of them was a 3-year-old Jacqueline Benguigui.

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24 June 1944 | Two prisoners escaped from the #Auschwitz II-Birkenau: Mala Zimetbaum (camp no. 19880) born on January 26, 1918 in Brzesko, a female Polish Jew who was deported to the camp in a transport from Mechelen in occupied Belgium and the Polish political prisoner Edward Galiński (camp no. 531), born on October 15, 1923, who was deported to the camp in the first transport of Poles to Auschwitz on June 14, 1940.

Edward Galiński and Mala Zimetbaum had a relative freedom of moving around the camp premises while performing their duties. They met at the turn of 1943 and 1944 and fell in love. Initially, Galiński had been planning the escape together with his friend Wiesław Kielar. Dressed in the SS uniform, he was supposed to be escorting his mate to work. They had even secretly obtained the uniform and a gun from the former ironworks Kommandoführer SS-Rottenführer Edward Lubusch. However, having met Mala Zimetbaum he wanted her to escape from the camp with him. Kielar finally decided not to join them, but he provided the couple with his assistance.

Galiński was waiting for Mala in the place agreed upon beforehand, dressed in the SS uniform. She came dressed in work overalls, carrying a washbasin on her head. In this way, they intended to simulate the escorting of a prisoner from the fitters’ Kommando to the workplace outside the camp. Using a fake SS pass stolen by Mala, they managed to go beyond the large guard chain. They headed toward Slovakia, where her relatives lived. On July 7, they were arrested by a border guard patrol and then transported to Auschwitz and incarcerated in the cells of Block 11. Both of them, despite long investigation and torture, did not reveal the names of the people who assisted them in preparing the escape.

Edward Galiński was hanged in the men’s camp in Birkenau on September 15, 1944, while Mala Zimetbaum slashed her wrists before execution. She was then taken to one of the crematoria and probably shot there.

Online exhibition about the escape of Mala and Edek:
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Online lesson about the escapes from Auschwitz:
https://t.co/vGNy4XrazU

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23 June 1942 | The Germans murdered with gas in Bunker I near Auschwitz II-Birkenau, 566 Polish patients brought from a psychiatric hospital in Kobierzyn (in the photo) & a hospital in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska.

About 30 patients who, due to their condition, were unable to be transported were shot by SS men the previous day, either right in their beds or at the cemetery by the hospital in Kobierzyn.
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▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://t.co/KArryHBbea

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Impressions of the Auschwitz I site by https://t.co/F7REAhzVeN



Watch a short video about the expansion of Auschwitz I camp: https://t.co/6p1ZQUV9oc



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A visit to the Auschwitz Memorial is far more than a history lesson. It is a profound personal experience that should inspire reflection on our individual moral responsibility for the world we live in.

Entry cards: https://t.co/8nmsz2SDEv

If you took photographs or videos during your visit to the Memorial and would like to share them with others, you are welcome to send them to us in a Direct Message.

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19 June 1911 | A Pole, Jan Olszak, was born in Warsaw. An accountant.

In #Auschwitz from 18 April 1942.
No. 31211
He perished in the camp on 2 June 1942.

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18 June 1900 | A Czech, Alois Hyrš, was born in Olesna. A farm worker.

In #Auschwitz from 17 June 1942.
No 39735
He perished in the camp on 9 July 1942.

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18 June 1916 | A Polish Jew, Dawid Steinberg, was born. A shoemaker.

In #Auschwitz from 2 July 1942.
No. 44571
He perished in the camp on 18 August 1942.

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18 June 1931 | A Czech Jewish girl, Mariana Kornová, was born in Moravska Ostrava.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 October 1944. She did not survive.

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17 June 1942 | SS men shot 120 Polish prisoners at the Death Wall in Auschwitz I. They were selected from those deported to the camp from Warsaw, Krakow, Tarnów, Radom, and Lublin.

One of them was a brickmaker from Marki Edward Rabczyński (np. 22869). He was 29 years old.
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▶ A short video about Block 11 and its courtyard, where executions by shooting took place: https://t.co/RfKFmt6aT0

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16 June 1905 | A Polish Jew, Majer Icek Kerpel, was born.

In #Auschwitz from 11 December 1941.
No. 24209
He perished in the camp on 13 March 1942.
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📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://t.co/WjqF9riy8m

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16 June 1942 | A Polish prisoner Feliks Żurek (no. 21242) was captured while trying to escape. The SS jailed him in the bunker of Block 11 at Auschwitz I. He was executed by shooting on 31 July 1942. He was 37 years old.

▶ A short video about Block 11 and its courtyard, where executions by shooting took place: https://t.co/RfKFmt6aT0

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16 June 1916 | A Polish Jewish woman, Toibe Hofenberg (nee Morozowicz), was born in Łomża.

She was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

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15 June 1943 | Due to the threat of a typhus epidemic, SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Bruno Berger, a collaborator of the Military Scientific Research Institute Ahnenerbe (“ancestral heritage”), completed his work in KL Auschwitz, most likely earlier than planned.

As a result of his work, 115 prisoners were selected: 79 Jewish men, two Poles, four Asians, and 30 Jewish women. After quarantine, they were to be transferred to KL Natzweiler. From there, after they had been killed, their bodies were to be sent to the Institute of Anatomy in Strasbourg, whose director was SS-Hauptsturmführer Prof. August Hirt, for the collection of skeletons he was creating.

(In the picture: Beger conducting anthropometric studies in Sikkim Bundesarchiv, Bild 135-KB-15-083 / Krause, Ernst / CC-BY-SA 3.0)

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Besides images of Hungarian Jews at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau, there are also images of their deportation taken outside.

2,969 Jews were deported from Dunaszerdahely on 15 June 1944.

Learn about Jews from Hungary at Auschwitz: https://t.co/043WQAahQm