"Il 16 maggio del 1944, circa 6.500 #rom e #sinti prigionieri a #Birkenau riuscirono a disinnescare il piano previsto per il massacro finale dell’intero settore del campo. Nonostante i rivoltosi siano poi stati smistati in altri campi o uccisi nei mesi a seguire, questa storia di ribellione rimane incisa nella storia."
21 March 1936 | A French Jewish girl, Gitla Smutek, was born in Paris.
She arrived at Auschwitz on 29 September 1942 in a transport of 1,004 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among the 698 people murdered after selection in gas chambers.
20 March 1943 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Bernhard Sanders, was born in Schalkwijk.
He arrived at Auschwitz on 27 January 1944 in a transport of 948 Jews deported from Westerbork with his mother Johanna and father Willem. All three were probably murdered in a gas chamber.
20 March 1911 | Polish Jewish woman, Jenna Einhorn was born in Warsaw. She emigrated to France.
Deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 30 June 1944.
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She was transferred to Theresienstadt and liberated there.
She died in hospital in Lariboisière on 7 June 1945.
18 March 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Mirjam Hoogstraal (left), was born in Apeldoorn.
In February 1944 she was transferred from Westerbork to Theresienstadt and deported to Auschwitz on 4 September 1944. She was murdered in the gas chamber with her sister Johanna Wilhelmina.