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15 May 1930 | A Polish Jew, Berek Ringer, was born in Oświęcim.

In 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz from Będzin Ghetto. He was murdered in a gas chamber.

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15 May 1889 | A Polish Jew, Salomon Honig, was born in the village of Kołaczyce near Jasło. He later moved to Tarnów.

In Auschwitz from 5 March 1942.
No. 26389
He perished in the camp on 18 March 1942.

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15 May 1942 | The renovation work in the crematorium at Auschwitz I has been completed.

The underground flue duct between the furnaces and the chimney has been repaired; walls and vaulting have been constructed above the room housing the engine next to the chimney; a fan connected to it has been installed to assist the draft of the furnaces.

Additionally, repairs have been carried out on one of the corpse-loading trolleys.

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15 May 1941 | A Yugoslavian (Bosnian) Jewish girl, Leah Miriam Brainer, was born in Tuzla.

In 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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14 May 1940 | A French Jewish boy, Henri Latowicz, was born in Paris.

He arrived at Auschwitz on 11 February 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 832 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

auschwitzmuseum, 9 days ago to random

14 May 1944 | The main phase of the deportation of Hungarian Jews began. Between May 14 & July 9 in 142 trains some 420,000 people were deported to the German camp #Auschwitz. Some 330,000 of them were murdered immediately in gas chambers.

Our online lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

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14 May 1908 | A Czech Jewish woman, Emilie Lowositzová, was born in Jihlava.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 23 October 1944. She did not survive.

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14 May 1892 | A Jewish man, Matys Cwajbaum, was born in Warsaw. During the war, he lived in Paris. He was a tailor.

He was deported to Auschwitz on 13 February 1943 and perished in the camp just before the liberation.

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4 May 1920 | A Czech, Jan Husak, was born in Roudnice nad Labem. A worker.

In Auschwitz from 20 May 1942.
No. 35892
He perished in the camp on 8 July 1942.

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14 May 1936 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Iboja Berger, was born in Mohács.

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

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13 May 1943 | Sara Cohen was born in Groningen in The Netherlands. She was a Dutch Jewish girl, a daughter of Jozef and Carolien.

In February 1944 she was murdered in a gas chamber of Auschwitz.

She lived 9 months.

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13 May 1916 | A Polish Jew, Szyja Urlik, was born in Warsaw. A tailor.

In Auschwitz from 20 February 1942.
No. 23679
He perished in the camp on 1 April 1942.

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13 May 1930 | A Czech Jewish girl, Rita Ronsburgerová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 15 May 1944. She did not survive.

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13 May 1943 | A transport of some 1,000 Yugoslavian Jewish men, women, and children arrived at Auschwitz from the ghetto in Zagreb. After arrival selection 30 men and 25 women were registered in the camp. The remaining people were murdered in a gas chamber.

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13 May 1901 | Witold Pilecki was born. He was a Polish soldier who fought in 1920 & 1939 wars, a volunteer prisoner of the German camp Auschwitz, and co-founder of camp resistance.

He escaped in April 1943 & wrote reports about the crimes in the camp.

A podcast about his story: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-45-The-story-of-Witold-Pilecki--co-founder-of-resistance-in-Auschwitz-e2itc60

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.

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13 May 1928 | A German Jewish girl, Ruth Albersheim, was born in Bielefeld. She lived in Amsterdam.

In November 1943 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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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.

auschwitzmuseum, 11 days ago to random

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.

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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.

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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, 11 days 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.

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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

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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.