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This is a list of notable victims and survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp; that is, victims and survivors about whom a significant amount of independent secondary sourcing exists.
The database includes a broad range of historical documents including census records, registration forms, ghetto inhabitant lists, death lists, concentration camp or displaced persons camp lists, and more.
22 sty 2020 · Daily mass executions, starvation, disease and torture transformed Auschwitz into one of the most lethal and terrifying concentration camps and extermination centers of World War II.
Henri is one of the dwindling handful of men and women who survived Auschwitz. The death camp the Nazis built in occupied southern Poland during World War Two was, another survivor once told...
In May 1940, German criminals brought to the camp as functionaries established the camp's reputation for sadism. Prisoners were beaten, tortured, and executed for the most trivial of reasons. The first gassings —of Soviet and Polish prisoners—took place in block 11 of Auschwitz I around August 1941.
As the Allied armies advanced through Europe in early 1945, Auschwitz was evacuated and the inmates were taken to the Dora-Nordhausen and Bergen-Belsen camps in Germany. Freddie took the uniform badge of a dead French political prisoner to conceal his Jewish identity.
List of approximately 750 survivors of Auschwitz and Birkenau being treated at a Polish Red Cross hospital on 4/5/45. Each patient's birthdate, prisoner number, and nationality are given, along with a date which appears to be the date of their arrival at Auschwitz or Birkenau.
