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January 27, 2019
Holocaust Memorial Day – 75 Years Ago Last Month – 8,931 female prisoners died in Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp
December 1-31, 1943 “8.931 female prisoners die in the women’s camp in Auschwitz II [Birkenau]; 4,247 of them are killed with gas after selections in the camp and in the prisoner’s infirmary. 5,748 male prisoners died in Auschwitz I,II, and … Continue reading →
75 Years Ago Today – Jan 27, 1944 – Holocaust Memorial Day 2014 – 948 Jews from Westerbork Holland arrived in Auschwitz…
In the transport are 435 women, 391 men, and 122 children. After the selection, 190 men given Nos. 172860-173049, and 69 women given Nos. 74902-74970 are admitted to the camp. The remaining 689 people (122 children) are killed in the … Continue reading →
June 11, 2018
75 Yrs Ago Today Rena #1716 had been in Auschwitz for 11 weeks…
“Two female prisoners are sent in a group transport and receive Nos. 7607 and 7608.” Poles from the Penal Colony plan a mass escape which is thwarted and instead of 50 men escaping, only 9 succeed, the rest are shot … Continue reading →
February 20, 2018
20 Feb 1943 – 75 Yrs Ago Today in Auschwitz #Holocaust History – The children of two Jewish scientists are registered in camp
This is a follow up to the Feb 7 blog post: “Dr. Bernard Umschweif’s son, Karol, born on Sept 4, 1937, is assigned No. 103796, and Dr. Jakob Seeman’s son, Bronek, born on Dec. 12, 1932, receives the number 103797. … Continue reading →
January 27, 2018
#Holocaust Remembrance Day – “The message of Auschwitz is so much larger than the horror, the horror
On this day in 1945 at 9:00am, the first Russian soldier of the 100th Infantry Division of the 106th Corps arrives in Monowitz (one of the camps connected to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex). Of the 850 sick prisoners in Monowitz infirmary … Continue reading →
January 24, 2018
75 Years Ago Today – Oswiecim, Poland and Auschwitz
What was it like three days before the Russians arrived to liberate Auschwitz and the town of Oswiecim from the occupation of Nazi-Germany? We know that as the Russian front neared, the fighting neared too. The Wehrmacht was shooting prisoners … Continue reading →
January 22, 2018
75 Years Ago Today – January 21, 1945 – Before Liberation of Auschwitz
DEATH MARCH: The residents of Polish towns through which the prisoners are marched recover the corpses of 1,101 male and female prisoners, and bury them in 29 mass graves along the route (see Friday’s “vlog” as we retrace this route … Continue reading →
75 Years Ago Today – Jan 22, 1945 #Holocaust #History #Liberation
Death March: Prisoners continue to arrive in German camps and the last columns of prisoners on the death march from Auschwitz arrive in Wodzislaw Slaski–2,223 prisoners that arrive in Buchenwald, after being left in open air freight cars the night … Continue reading →
January 20, 2018
#Holocaust 75 yrs ago last week: 19,421 men, women and children were gassed…
The transports are so heavy at this point that to blog each one would be overwhelming, so this is a tribute to those transports that arrived in Auschwitz 70 years ago between Jan 13-Jan 21, 1943: 1,000 people from Berlin … Continue reading →
December 14, 2017
75 Years Ago Today – Dec 14, 1942 – 263 Days in Auschwitz #Holocaust On this last night of Hanukkah let us
light candles to light the world and remember that our light can alleviate the darkness but only if we commit to living lives free of hatred, which serves no purpose. 70 years ago today, hatred, racism and prejudice reigned : … Continue reading →
