4 July 1942 In the penal unit (Strafkompanie - SK) of the German Nazi #Auschwitz concentration camp blessed father Józef Kowalski SDB was murdered.
The Gestapo arrested Kowalski on May 23, 1941, along with eleven other Salesians who worked in Kraków. They were taken to Montelupich Prison and tortured.
He was incarcerated in Auschwitz on 26 June 1941 and registered with the no. 17350.
Father Kowalski was sent to SK for refusing to trample his #rosary. He was drown in a barrel of excrements.
This is my Grandfather Mór's yahrzeit (anniversary of his death). He was murdered in #Auschwitz on arrival there. He was only 65, a vibrant merchant and farmer. #Holocaust. #InheritedTrauma. This is why I work against othering and hate-mongering. I wrote abt my family's story http://bit.ly/ResilienceStone
Why didn’t Sears, with its massive catalog and network, grow into an online giant instead of Amazon? From landlords to healthcare, why is everything getting worse - and more expensive - at the same time? And what does this have to do with a German corporation whose slave labor camp was worse than #Auschwitz?
@pluralistic answers those questions and more in this tour-de-force linkblog. via @LLS (🙏🏻)
4 or 5 June 1944 | Bronisław Czech (prisoner no. 349) died of exhaustion in the infirmary at #Auschwitz. One of the most important Polish skiers of the interwar period, 24-time Polish champion, 3-time Olympian, mountain-climber & rescuer, glider pilot. More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronis%C5%82aw_Czech
Bronisław Czech was among 728 Poles deported to Auschwitz on 14 June 1940. This date is considered to be the beginning of the functioning of the camp.
3 June 1944 | Due to repeated attempts of escape from the crematorium areas by Hungarian Jews, the practice of turning off the electricity in the fence of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp in the daytime was discontinued. The electricity was left on all day and night.
On that day four trains with Jews deported from Hungary to Auschwitz crossed the border in Košice, with 11,569 people.
The first 30 prisoners arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp on 20th May 1940 from the Sachsenhausen camp. By the time the camp was liberated in January 1945 of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million were murdered. The number of victims includes 960,000 Jews, 74,000 non-Jewish Poles, 21,000 Romani, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and up to 15,000 others. 1/2
Those not gassed were murdered via starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions or beatings. Others were killed during what were termed "medical experiments". 2/2
9 May 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Marcel Jacobs, was born in Enschede.
He was deported to Auschwitz in February 1943 with his mother Rika and his 7-year-old sister Marlene. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
4 May 1940 | Schutzhaftlagerführer (camp manager) of KL Sachsenhausen SS-Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Höss (in the picture from 1944) became formally nominated as the commandant of a new German concentration camp - #Auschwitz
RT @AuschwitzMuseum
23 April 1941 | For the first time, SS men at #Auschwitz selected 10 prisoners for starvation death as retaliation after another prisoner escaped the camp. A physics teacher from Chorzów, Pole Marian Batko stepped out during the selection in place of another prisoner.