5 August 1902 | A Pole, Stefan Domaradzki, was born in Korolew. A hairdresser. In #Auschwitz from 1 February 1941. No. 9881 He perished in the camp on 24 December 1941.

5 August 1907 | A Pole Adam Kopyciński was born in Osielec Podhalański. In #Auschwitz from 8 January 1942. No. 25294 He played piano & lyre in the camp orchestra. In May 1944, he became its conductor. Liberated in Ebensee. After the war the director of the opera in Wrocław.

5 August 1874 | A Polish Jew, Majer Tepper, was born in Mrzygłód. A farmer. In #Auschwitz form 16 April 1942. No. 29748 He perished in the camp on 31 May 1942. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

5 August 1928 | A French Jewish girl, Bella Rubin, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 19 July 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy together white her mother Marta and a younger sister Micheline. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.

5 August 1905 | A German Jewish woman, Martha Voss, was born in Loesnich. During the war she lived in The Hague. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

5 August 1942 | Polish Jew, Dawid Pawłowicz, perished in the #Auschwitz camp. Dawid was born in Radom on 6 June 1905. He was a cabman. He was registered in the camp on 2 July 1942. No. 44385 He survived 34 days.

5 August 1900 | Dutch Jewish woman, Anna van Emden, was born in Amsterdam. In December 1942 she was deported from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- 📖 Jews deported to Auschwitz from the German-occupied Netherlands: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

4 August 1936 | A Romanian Jewish boy, Jacob Arye Katz, was born in Satu Mare. In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

4 August 1922 | A Polish woman, Halina Jasicka, was born in Tarnów. A laboratory analyst. In #Auschwitz from 27 April 1942. No. 6898 She was evacuated to KL Bergen-Belsen and liberated there. --- Women at Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/3O8z0jF 🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/3ZokyXc

4 August 1943 | A French Jewish girl, Marguerite Sznajderman, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 12 February 1944 in a transport of 1,500 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 1,229 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection. She was 6 months old.

4 August 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Betty Mol, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1944 she was incarcerated in #Theresienstadt Ghetto. On 6 October 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

4 August 1905 | Stjepan Raztyekhayev. A Soviet army soldier. In #Auschwitz from October 1941. No. R-1415 (Soviet POW) He perished in the camp on 3 November 1941. --- Learn about some 15,000 Soviet POWs deported to Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/4tD4yyn 🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/4aDGliV

4 August 1903 | A Czech Jewish woman, Františka Winternitzová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 18 May 1944. She did not survive.

4 August 1932 | Hungarian Jewish girl Erika Oesterreicher was born in Budapest. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- 📖 Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

4 August 1884 | German Jewish woman, Agnes Scholl (nee Eissler), was born in Wiesenbach. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 15 January 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

3 August 1896 | An Italian Jewish woman, Ada Ancona (nee Gesess), was born in Trieste. In August 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/3O8z0jF 🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/3ZokyXc

3 August 1911 | A Frenchman, Jean Berthout, was born in Limoges. In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1942. No. 45230 He perished in the camp on 13 August 1942.

3 August 1906 | A Polish Jew, Moses Cwerman, was born in Zwoleń. A shoemaker. In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942. No. 37459 He perished in the camp on 2 August 1942.

3 August 1902 | German Jewish woman Regina Jonas was born in Berlin. In 1935 she became the 1st woman ordained as a rabbi by the liberal rabbi Max Dienemann. Arrested in Nov 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt & in mid-October 1944 deported to #Auschwitz where she perished.

3 August 1920 | A Pole, Roman Abramczuk, was born in Tarnopol. A technician. In #Auschwitz from 16 January 1941. No. 9472 He perished in the camp on 9 August 1941. --- 📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

3 August 1940 | A French Jewish girl, Raymonde Levy, was born in Finistère. In October 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

3 September 1878 | A Czech Jew, Bohdan Winter, was born in Prague. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 28 October 1942 in a transport of 1,866 Jews deported from #Theresienstadt ghetto. He was among 1,619 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

3 August 1871 | Polish Jewish woman, Estera Berkowicz, was born in Częstochowa. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 18 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

2 August 1937 | Hungarian Jewish boy, Miklos Groszberger, was born in Budapest. In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

2 August 1902 | A Pole, Ludwik Durman, was born in Przestańsk. A shoemaker. In #Auschwitz from 24 April 1942. No. 32502 He was shot in the camp on 27 May 1942.

2 August 1943 | 1,000 Jews arrived at Auschwitz from Drancy in German-occupied France. After the selection 218 men & 55 women were registered as prisoners. The remaining 727 people were murdered in gas chambers. Françoise Sukno was among them. She was almost 3 months old.

2 August 1936 | An Italian Jewish boy, Guido Foa, was born in Turin. He was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

2 August 1943 | Jewish prisoners at the German extermination center #Treblinka launched a successful revolt. Read more: https://www.polin.pl/en/the-treblinka-uprising

2 August 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Jeannette Groenteman, (in the middle) was born in Amsterdam. In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her mother Lena and siblings Anne & John. All were probably murdered together in a gas chamber.

2/3 August 1944 | The Germans liquidated the so-called Gypsy camp (Zigeunerlager - sector BIIe) of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Some 4,300 children, women and men - the last Roma prisoners of the sector - were loaded onto trucks and driven to the gas chambers.