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  1. 8 March 1929 | A French Jewish girl, Claudine Malack, was born in Paris. She arrived at on 13 November 1942 in a transport of 745 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among the 599 people murdered after selection in a gas chamber.

  2. 8 March 1926 | A German Jewish woman, Hilda Haberman, was born in Berlin. In March 1944 she was deported to . She did not survive.

  3. Children born in to Jewish prisoners were, as a rule, murdered until November 1944. The available documents allow it to be established that at least 700 children were born in Auschwitz. Learn about tragic fate of children in the camp:

  4. 7 March 1930 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Izak Philip van Dijk, was born in Oss. In October 1942 he was deported to and murdered in a gas chamber.

  5. 7 March 1913 | A Czech Jew, Hugo Hermann, was born in Brno. He was deported to from the ghetto on 15 December 1943. He did not survive.

  6. 2 March 1943 | A transport of 1,736 Jewish men, women & children arrived at from Berlin. SS doctors during the selection sent 292 men & 385 women to the camp. The remaining 1,059 people were murdered in gas chambers. One of them was a 7-year old Rut Mandel.

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  7. 7 March 1926 | A Russian, Nikolai Dubienko, was born. In from 27 November 1942. No. 78175 He perished in the camp on 17 February 1943.

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    The world lost another survivor. With great sadness, we share that Aga (Faygi Fraides) Gershkovich died at the age of 95. May her memory be a blessing. When asked what meant to her, she said: "Death of almost entire family; horrible suffering & torture."

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  9. The story of is also the story of female-perpetrators. Around 200 women served in the SS camp garrison: as guards (some were very brutal towards female prisoners), radio operators, nurses or secretaries:

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  10. 6 March 1918 | A Czech Jewish woman, Eva Ebelová, was born in Prague. She was deported to from the ghetto on 9 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber with her 7-year-old son Jiří.

  11. A Polish woman, Maria Wichary. She was born in Katowice. She perished in the German camp on 3 March 1943. She was 42.

  12. 6 March 1900 | A Jewish woman, Julia Guerstein (née Nahon), was born in Cairo, Egypt. She lived in France. She arrived at on 6 February 1944 in a transport of 1,214 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among the 999 people murdered after selection in gas chambers.

  13. 6 March 1923 | A Norwegian Jew, Elias Wolkoff, was born in Oslo. In from 1 December 1942. No. 79248 He perished in the camp on 19 January 1943.

  14. 2 March 1933 | A Romanian Jewish girl, Alis Diner, was born in Satu Mare. In 1944 she was deported to and murdered in a gas chamber.

  15. Janina Nowak was a Polish woman deported to on 12 June 1942 & registered as number 7615. She was the first women who escaped from Auschwitz. She was arrested again, not recognized & imprisoned in the camp again. She survived.

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  16. 2 March 1925 | A Polish Jewish woman, Jeannette Woda, was born in Siedlce. She lived in Paris. On 13 July 1942 she was deported to . She did not survive.

  17. 4 March 1886 | A Pole, Kazimierz Szyposz, was born in Czerniowce. A judge. In on November 6, 1941. No. 22503 He perished in the camp on 25 November 1941.

  18. Jewish female prisoner Mala Zimetbaum (born in Poland, deported from occupied Belgium) & Polish prisoner Edward Galiński fell in . On 24 June 1944 they tried to escape from . It ended tragicly for both of them. Read their story.

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  19. 4 March 1909 | A Polish Jew, Markus Adler, was born in Rawa Ruska. A tailor. In from 15 December 1941. No. 24497 He perished in the camp on 29 December 1941.

  20. From transports of Jews deported by the Germans for extermination to SS doctors selected hundreds of thousands of & girls to be murdered in gas chambers immediately after arrival. Pregnant women & mothers with babies were murdered too.

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