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PODCAST | Liberation of the Auschwitz camp

On 27 January 1945, Red Army soldiers liberated over 7,000 prisoners of Auschwitz. The 1,689-day history of this concentration and extermination camp came to an end.

Dr Jacek Lachendro of the Museum Research Centre tells us what the last days of Auschwitz looked like and what happened immediately after the liberation.

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3 June 1935 | A French Jewish boy, Jacques Moncarz, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 13 February 1944 in a transport of 1,500 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 1,229 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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4 June 1923 | A Czech Jew, Hanuš Weiss, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 1 October 1944. He did not survive.

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4 June 1890 | A Polish woman, Anastazja Onik, was born in Żuków.

In #Auschwitz from 15 January 1943.
No. 28821
She perished in the camp on 29 June 1943.

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4 June 1901 | Italian Jew, Vittorio Bassi, was born in Venice.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Fossoli camp on 22 February 1944. He did not survive.

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4 June 1941 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Rene Spiner, was born in Antwerp.

In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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4 June 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Simone Sommer, was born in Strasbourg.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 12 February 1944 in a transport of 1,500 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 1,229 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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With great sadness, we received information of the passing of Masza Rosenroth, an Auschwitz Survivor.

Masza was born on 12 August 1924 in Konstantynów, Poland, to Mordechai and Malka. During the German occupation, her family was transferred to the Litzmannstadt ghetto. From there, in August 1944, Masza was deported to Auschwitz.

After a few days, she was transferred to work in a munitions factory in Bad Kudowa, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen. She was liberated there.

In 1949, Masza emigrated to the United States and settled in Buffalo, N.Y. She found a job as a dressmaker.

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The model of gas chamber and crematorium II from Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

The crematorium was equipped with five 3-muffle ovens capable of burning 1,440 corpses in 24 hours. The undressing space & 210 sq. meter gas chamber were located underground.

▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz: https://t.co/AENjcRS04c

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4 June 1904 | A German Jewish woman, Lore Berentzen, was born in Frankfurt am Main.

In May 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

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5 June 1927 | German Jewish boy, Klaus Adolf Tuteur, was born in Kaiserslautern. He emigrated to Belgium.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 4 April 1944. He did not survive.

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4 or 5 June 1944 | Bronisław Czech (prisoner no. 349) died of exhaustion in the Auschwitz camp hospital.

Czech was born on 25 July 1908 in Zakopane. He attended the Zakopane School for the Wood Industry, 1925–1927; and the CIWF (now the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw), 1932–1935. Multiple skiing champion of Poland. Competed in five European Championships and three Winter Olympics (St. Moritz, 1928; Lake Placid, 1932; Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1936); and in all the skiing championships in Poland and abroad (up to 1939, winning over 100 medals and prizes). Awarded the Polish Silver Cross of Merit for outstanding sports achievements, 1930. Head of the Kasprowy Wierch Alpine skiing school, 1936–1939.

When the War broke out in 1939, Czech became involved in the anti-German resistance movement, presumably as a mountain courier. Arrested on 14 May 1940 in akopane and held in the local prison at the Palace Hotel, and later in Tarnów, from where he was brought to Auschwitz in the first transport (14 June 1940). Believed to have been offered his freedom in return for training the German skiing team, but rejected the offer.

In the camp he worked in the Tischlerei (carpenters’) Kommando, and later in the Schnitzerei (wood-carvers’) Kommando, making wooden spoons, clogs, and other wooden items. The first prisoner officially employed in the Lagermuseum (December 1941). Transferred to a cleaner’s job in the SS offices (February 1944). Sent to the camp hospital in March 1944, when his health deteriorated, and died there three months later, despite the devoted care of fellow-prisoners.

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5 June 1868 | Polish Jew, Józef Karp, was born in Tarnów. He emigrated to Belgium.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 12 September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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5 June 1933 | Dutch Jewish girl, Hilde Münz, was born in Heerlen.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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2 June 1910 | A Polish woman, Hildegarda Bigocka, was born in Wyczylino. She was a courier of the Home Army. Arrested by Germans in 1943 (she was carrying documents for Jan Nowak Jeziorański).

In #Auschwitz from 5 October 1943.
No. 64367
She perished on 11 December 1943.

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1 June 1931 | Dutch Jewish girl Leontine Juliette Susan was born in Amsterdam.

In November 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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3 June 1892 | Czech Jewish woman, Alice Fuchsová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 1 February 1943. She was murderdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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2 June 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Ágnes Gruenberger, was born.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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PODCAST | Deportations of Poles from the Zamość region to Auschwitz

After Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941. Heinrich Himmler gave the order to create a "German settlement area" around the occupied Polish town of Zamość. The population of that region was to be expelled and replaced by German settlers.

The area was chosen for its agricultural character. It consisted of five towns and 696 villages.

The displaced population was sent to transit camps, where they were subjected to racial screening. Those who, according to German criteria, were not "racially valuable" were planned to be deported to concentration camps.

A total of 1,301 people, including at least 162 children were deported to Auschwitz in three transports

Dr Wanda Witek-Malicka of the Auschwitz Memorial Research Centre talks about the ethnic cleansing carried out by the Germans in the Zamość region and the fate of the inhabitants of this region deported to Auschwitz.

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31 May 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Sara Channah Jacobsen, was born in Rotterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.