Auschwitz Memorial
@AuschwitzMuseum
Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
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11 October 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Monique Preigher, was born in Neuilly.
In December 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz# and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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10 October 1940 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Marianna Sajó, was born.
In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz# and murdered in a gas chamber.
9 October 1932 | A French Jewish girl, Rose Aboulafia, was born in Paris.
In April 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz# with her mother Victoria and younger sister Odette. After the selection they were murdered in a gas chamber.
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9 October 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Judit Erdos, was born in Miskolc.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz# and murdered in a gas chamber.
8 October 1931 | Czech Jewish girl, Liana Friedová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz# from #Theresienstadnt# ghetto on 4 October 1944 with her mother Gertruda and brother Pavel. None of them survived.
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8 October 1936 | A French Jewish boy, Victor Mandelbaum, was born in Paris.
In August 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz# from #Drancy#. After the selection he was murdered in a gas chamber.
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8 October 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Helene Akar, was born in Bar-le-Duc.
In August 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz# and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
7 October 1930 | Dutch Jewish girl, Rachel Bobbe, was born at The Hague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz# from #Westerbork# in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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7 October 1921 | Czech Jewish woman, Františka Brichtová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz# from #Theresienstadt# ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
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7 October 1916 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Sophie Slier-Roselaar, was born in Amsterdam.
In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz#. She did not survive.
1 August 1915 | A Polish Jewish woman, Fradja Azous, was born in Warsaw. She emigrated to France.
In September 1942 she was deported from Pithiviers to #Auschwitz#. She did not survive.
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31 July 1923 | A Czech Jewish woman, Alžběta Pohnertová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz# from #Theresienstadt# Ghetto on 26 January 1943. She did not survive.
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27 May 1927 | Greek Jewish girl Dolly Florentin was born in Thessaloniki.
In 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz#. She did not survive.
27 May 1944 | Two Jewish prisoners escaped from the #Auschwitz# II-Birkenau camp: Czesław Mordowicz from Poland and Arnošt Rosin from Slovakia. Their account about extermination of Hungarian Jews was later sent to Switzerland, and then presented to the governments of the Allies.
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A North Texas Holocaust survivor is celebrating reaching the century mark. "I was born in 1920, now it's 2020," Heinz Wallach said. His daughter organized a parade for her father's birthday with the help of @dhhrm_org:
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25 March 1936 | Rene Tyk, a French Jewish boy was born in #Paris#. On 19 August 1942 he was deported from #Drancy# to #Auschwitz# in a transport of 1,000 people. He was murdered at Auschwitz right after arrival on 21 August 1942. He was 6 years old.
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Gertrud Steinl, the last surviving German honored by @yadvashem with the title of Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jews during the #Holocaust#, has died.
