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  2. 10 hours ago

    7 December 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Joan Vintura, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1943 he was deported to and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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  3. 20 Mar 2019

    When you come to remember you are at the site where over 1 million people were killed. Respect their memory. There are better places to learn how to walk on a balance beam than the site which symbolizes deportation of hundreds of thousands to their deaths.

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  4. Nov 29

    Learn about the history of the Sonderkommando in as well as the revolt that took place on 7 October 1944 & courageous Jewish women who smuggled gunpowder to prisoners from our online lesson:

    Pictured from left to right: Anna, Sabina and Ester.
    Anna Heilman’s sister, Ester (pictured as a young girl with Anna and their sister Sabina), was executed at Auschwitz for supplying gunpowder to the Sonderkommando resistance. “I believe—I have to believe they didn't die in vain, they did it for something,” Anna later reflected.
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  5. Dec 3

    El infierno de Hilo:

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  6. 2 hours ago

    7 December 1923 | A Polish woman, Helena Kucharska, was born in Hrubieszów. A farm worker. In from 5 February 1943. No. 34432 She perished in the camp on 26 July 1943.

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  7. 6 hours ago

    7 December 1923 | A Polish Jew, Moses Fuks, was born in Warsaw. In from 29 April 1942. No. 32629 He perished in the camp on 3 July 1942.

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  8. 21 hours ago

    6 December 1942 | A transport of 811 Jews deported from Westerbork in the German-occupied Netherlands arrived at . After the selection 16 men were registered, the remaining 795 were murdered in gas chambers. Alexander van der Stam and his mother Flora were among them.

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  9. 19 hours ago

    6 December 1942 | Grigol Peradze, a cleric of the Georgian Orthodox Church, an archimandrite, perished in . Since 1933 he lectured at the College of Orthodox Theology of the Warsaw University. The Germans arrested him on 5 May 1942 and in Nov deported him to Auschwitz.

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  10. 15 hours ago

    6 December 1893 | A Lithuanian Jew, Isak Leimann, was born in Vilnius. He emigrated to Norway. He arrived in with his two children, Bernhard & Dina, on 1 December 1942. Isak & Dina were murdered in a gas chamber. Bernhard perished in the camp in January 1943.

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  11. Dec 4

    5 December 1920 | A Norwegian Jew, Mendel Jaffe, was born in Horten. Photography apprentice. On 26 November 1942 he was deported to . He did not survive.

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  12. 18 hours ago

    6 December 1882 | A Polish Jew, Chaim Kleinman, was born in Nowy Sącz. In from 12 December 1941. No. 24308 He perished in the camp on 26 December 1941.

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  13. Dec 4

    4 December 1939 | A Jewish girl Magdalena Dora Blau was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands to Fritz and Mina. On 11 August 1942 she was murdered in a gas chamber at the II-Birkenau camp.

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  14. Dec 5

    A Czech Jew, Ernst Kraus. He was a rail worker from Brno. He perished in the German Nazi camp on 6 December 1941, after 15 days of incarceration. He was 25.

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  15. Dec 5

    6 December 1895 | A Czech Jew, Josef Lekner, was born in Prague. He was deported to from ghetto on 28 September 1944. He did not survive.

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  16. Dec 4

    A Polish Jew, Aron Safier. He was a clerk from Tarnobrzeg. He perished in on 5 December 1941. He was 34 years old.

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  17. 12 hours ago

    7 December 1921 | Vladimir Yegorov was born. A Soviet army soldier. In from October 1941. No. R-4310 (Soviet prisoner of war) He perished in the camp on 12 January 1942.

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  18. 16 hours ago

    6 December 1936 | A French Jewish girl, Ginette Geduld, was born in Paris. She arrived at on 16 August 1942 in a transport of 991 Jews deported from . She was among 876 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

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  19. Dec 5

    5 December 1924 | A Pole, Marian Zgórniak, was born in Gorlice. In from 19 January 1943. No. 90788 In 1944 he was transferred to Gross-Rosen. He survived.

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  20. Dec 5

    5 December 1943 | A transfer transport of 1,200 prisoners & POWs arrived at from Flossenbürg. They were to be sent to gas chambers but instead they were kept at BIIa sector in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. 80 weakest people were left on icy ground & water was poured on them.

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  21. 14 hours ago

    6 December 1936 | A Czech Roma girl, Georgine Daniel, was born in Brno. In (Gypsy camp) in II-Birkenau from 7 March 1943. No. Z-1181 She perished in the camp on 4 August 1943.

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