29 February 1876 | Czech Jew Otto Herz was born. On 24 October 1942, he was imprisoned in Theresienstadt Ghetto and on 15 December 1943 deported to Auschwitz. He did not survive.
26 February 1932 | A Czech Jewish boy, Jindřich Brückner, was born in Brno.
He was deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 December 1943. Imprisoned in the so-called Familienlager in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. He did not survive.
26 February 1890 | An Austrian Jewish woman, Leopoldina Heksch, was born in Vienna. She lived in Amsterdam.
She arrived at Auschwitz on 7 October 1942 in a transport of 2,012 Jews deported from Westerbork. She was among the 1314 people murdered in gas chambers.