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12 May 1931 | Norwegian Jewish boy, Idar Fischer, was born in Kristiansund.

He arrived at Auschwitz on 3 March 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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12 May 1917 | A Jewish woman, Suzanne Feldmann, was born. A stenographer. During the war she lived in France.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 2 September 1943. She did not survive.

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12 May 1942 | 56 prisoners were released from the camp: 34 Poles, 18 Czechs, 2 Dutch, and 2 Germans. The Dutch men were Josef Janssen (nr 23610) and Johann Giesen (nr 23611) [both in the pictures].

Read more about releases from Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/life-in-the-camp/releases-from-the-camp/

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

auschwitzmuseum, 11 hours ago to random

12 May 1905 | A Polish man, Franciszek Czapla, was born in Gołonów. A miner.

In Auschwitz from 1 July 1942.
No. 44314
He perished in the camp on 17 September 1942.

auschwitzmuseum, 12 hours ago to random

12 May 1944 | A group of 39 Roma and Sinti children (20 boys and 19 girls) deported from the St. Josefspflege orphanage in Mulfingen, near Stuttgart were registered at Birkenau. Dr. Robert Ritter and Eva Justin of the Institute for the Study of Racial Hygiene carried out various tests on them before deportation.

The main purpose of this research was to confirm that the supposed "Gypsy" traits were inborn. When the children became useless, they could be deported.
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auschwitzmuseum, 14 hours ago to random

12 May 1918 | A Jewish woman, Sara Szanto, was born in Târgu Mureș in Romania.

In 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz. She did not survive.

auschwitzmuseum, 16 hours ago to random

12 May 1942 | A group of 1,500 Jewish men, women, and children deported from Sosnowiec were murdered in Bunker I (the first makeshift gas chamber at Auschwitz II-Birkenau).

Listen to our podcast to learn why in the spring of 1942 the Auschwitz concentration camp became also an extermination center for Jewish people: https://youtu.be/tRwZ49q-9e0

auschwitzmuseum, 17 hours ago to random

12 May 1894 | A Polish Jew, Samuel Grünhut, was born in Tarnów. A merchant.

In Auschwitz from 24 February 1942.
No. 25208
He died of suicide in the bunker of Block 11 on 2 March 1942.

auschwitzmuseum, 1 day ago to random

11 May 1937 | A German Jewish girl, Jutta Guttmacher, was born in Schlichtingsheim.

On 4 October 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto and murdered in a gas chamber.

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11 May 1914 | A Ukrainian, Marko Hwedorenko, was born.

In Auschwitz from 17 November 1942
No. 75772
Shot in the camp on 6 January 1943.

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11 May 1939 | A French Jewish boy, Alain Kartouzou, was born in Constantine in Algeria.

He arrived at Auschwitz on 30 March 1944 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 472 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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11 May 1911 | Jewish man of Polish origin, Josef Grabowski, was born in Poznan. A cantor. After November Pogrom in 1938, he emigrated to Norway and became a cantor in Trondheim.

In Auschwitz from 3 March 1943
No. 105359
He did not survive.

auschwitzmuseum, 1 day ago to random

11 May 1943 | At 7 p.m. in the SS kitchen building, an opera performance of "Charming Maiden" (Bezauberndes Fraulein) by Ralph Benatzky took place. Hella Witt from the Viennese theater "Raimund" played the leading role.

SS men were instructed that their wives were not allowed to sit in the seats designated for the female camp supervisors.

See our lessons on SS garrison members: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2021-zaloga-en/
&
women working for the SS: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/

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11 May 1934 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Györgyi Einhorn, was born.

In July 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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10 May 1900 | Czech Jewish man, Josef Jelinek, was born in Veliš.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive.

auschwitzmuseum, 2 days ago to random

10 May 1943 | Three Roma prisoners escaped from the camp: Anton Daniel, Ludvig Daniel & Viktor Daniel.

Ludvig and Viktor Daniel were captured and later imprisoned in the bunkers of Block 11. They were executed by shooting on 22 May 1943.

Anton Daniel after some time was caught and re-sent to Auschwitz. On 31 May 1944, he was sent to the penal company. His fate is unknown.

Learn more about escapes from Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_15_ucieczki/

auschwitzmuseum, 2 days ago to random

10 May 1939 | A French Jewish girl, Monique Cofman, was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan.

She arrived at Auschwitz on 8 November 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 773 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

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The two pictures are 11 years apart.

On 10 May 1933, the Nazi party staged an ideological spectacle of burning of 'un-German’ books.

2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber V, 1944.

Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead to.

Group of prisoners of Auschwitz burning corpses of people murdered in gas chambers in burning pits. Smoke is visible above the pile.

auschwitzmuseum, 2 days ago to random

10 May 1940 | A German Sinti girl, Hildegard Franz was born in Berlin.

In Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 30 March 1943.
No. Z-6192
She perished in the camp on 19 June 1943.

auschwitzmuseum, 2 days ago to random

10 May 1910 | Leon (Leba) Rajbenbach, a Polish Jew, was born in Warsaw to Pinkhus and Braindel. He emigrated to France where he worked as a merchant. During the war, he lived in Paris.

In 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz. He did not survive.

auschwitzmuseum, 2 days ago to random

10 May 1943 | Two Roma boys born in the Zigeunerlager at Auschwitz II-Birkenau were registered in the camp. Kurt Devis received no. Z-7646 and Karl Horvath no. Z-7647. They shared the tragic fate of all 378 Roma children born in the camp.
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auschwitzmuseum, 2 days ago to random

10 May 1888 | Jewish woman, Sara Kermann, was born in London. In 1906 she emigrated to Norway.

She arrived at Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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Brick barracks for prisoners located at the oldest part of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. According to SS plans, each of these barracks was to house over 700 prisoners, but at times even over 1,000 people were held in each.

Yet, in the camp, there was almost no grass.

(Photo: https://instagram.com/maelyss.begagnon )

Listen to our podcast about living conditions at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/2A8VYMZHwdM