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    Aug 13

    Please consider following where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of .

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  2. 2 hours ago

    14 September 1937 | A German Jewish boy, Günther Willi Aron, was born in Essen. He arrived at on 5 November 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from ghetto in Riga. He was among 850 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

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  3. 4 hours ago

    14 September 1894 | A Polish Jew, Joel Frydman, was born in Radom. In from 6 June 1942. No. 37474 He perished in the camp on 24 June 1942.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    14 September 1890 | A Pole, Ludwik Brzezowski, was born in Ostrava. A chemist. In from 25 April 1942. No. 33100 He was shot in the camp on 27 May 1942.

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  5. 8 hours ago

    14 September 1905 | A Polish Jew, Abraham Kohn, was born in Radomsko. A tailor. In form 16 October 1941. No. 21595 He perished in the camp on 21 October 1941.

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  6. 8 hours ago

    14 September 1942 | Szmul Gelbard, a Polish Jew, perished in . Szmul was born in Kalisz on 14 March 1922. Incarcerated in the camp on 6 June 1942 & became prisoner no. 37740. He survived over 3 months. He was 20.

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  7. 10 hours ago

    14 September 1933 | A French Jewish boy, Jacques Vigderhaus, was born in Paris. In June 1943 he was deported to and murdered in a gas chamber.

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  8. 12 hours ago

    14 September 1915 | A Polish woman, Sabina Dzik, was born in Biała Rawska. An accountant. In from 30 July 1942. No. 13151 She was transferred to KL Flossenbürg and liberated there.

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  9. 14 hours ago

    14 September 1906 | Ivan Pilugin was born. A Soviet army soldier. In from October 1941. No. R-7130 (Soviet prisoner of war) He perished in the camp on 21 November 1941.

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  10. 16 hours ago

    13 September 1933 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Esther Eveline Werkendam, was born in Borgerhout. She lived in Amsterdam. At the end of July or beginning of August 1942 she was deported to and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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    18 hours ago

    Probably the most important account I followed on Twitter this year is . Heartbreaking and infuriating. The combination of documentation and narrative is so powerful.

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  12. 18 hours ago

    In Birkenau bombs (visible in the image) damaged the railroad embankment and the connecting track to the crematoria. At the chemical plant bombs made a lot of damage. Ca. 300 people were killed, among them many prisoners who worked there.

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  13. 18 hours ago

    13 September 1944 | The Allies bombed the IG Farbenindustrie chemical plant located near the German Nazi Auschwitz camp for 13 minutes. Some bombs fell at the sites of Auschwitz I & Auschwitz II-Birkenau. 40 prisoners & 15 SS men were killed. Many people were wounded.

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  14. 18 hours ago

    13 September 1910 | Alexander Balashov was born. A Soviet army soldier. In from October 1941. No. R-4267 (Soviet prisoner of war) He perished in the camp on 16 March 1942.

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  15. 18 hours ago

    Rudolf Trollmann was one of some 11,000 Sinti & Roma children incarcerated in . Most of them perished in the camp. See our online lesson dedicated to the tragic fate of children in Auschwitz:

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  16. 18 hours ago

    Learn about the creation of Auschwitz, reasons of incarceration of Poles & the plans of development of Auschwitz into the main camp for prisoners in German-occupied Poland. Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: Other lessons:

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  17. 18 hours ago

    Our explains why in March 1942 the Auschwitz concentration camp created in spring 1940 became - at the same time - an extermination center for Jewish people from all over German-occupied Europe.

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  18. 20 hours ago

    13 September 1912 | A Pole, Stanisław Szpak, was born in Dębowa. A baker. In from 29 July 1941. No. 18838 He perished in the camp on 4 November 1941.

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  19. 22 hours ago

    13 September 1905 | Polish Jewish woman Ruchla Nowak was born in Opoczno. A seamstress. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to . She did not survive.

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    13 September 1940 | A German Sinti boy, Rudolf Trollmann, was born in Berlin. In in II-Birkenau from 19 March 1943. No. Z-4866 He perished in the camp on 16 August 1943.

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  21. Sep 13

    13 September 1937 | A French Jewish boy, Michel Beniacar, was born in Paris. He arrived at on 4 July 1944 in a transport of 1,100 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 479 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

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