25 May 1881 | A German Sinti woman, Dorothea Thormann, was born in Bremervörde.
In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 24 March 1943.
No. Z-5629
She perished in the camp on 21 May 1943.
25 May 1892 | Jewish man, Bernhard Davidsen, was born in Vitebsk. He emigrated to Norway in 1912. A coachman.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
25 May 1931 | A Czech Jewish boy, Ivo Rubin, was born in Prague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 4 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
24 May 1911 | A Polish woman, Helena Nowak, was born in Radom. A tailor.
In #Auschwitz from 22 January 1943.
No. 30644
She perished in the camp on 7 May 1943.
24 May 1942 | A Jewish boy, Tamas Ovits, was born in Marosvásárhely (then in Hungary, today Târgu Mureș in Romania) to Tibor and Lili.
In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz where he was murdered in a gas chamber.
23 May 1944 | A transport of 1,200 French Jews arrived at #Auschwitz from Drancy. After the selection, 221 men & 247 women were registered in the camp.
The remaining 723 people were murdered in gas chambers. Among them was Harriet Nordmann. She was almost 3 years old.
22 May 1900 | A Czech Jewish woman, Elsa Menzelová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 28 October 1944. She did not survive.
17 May 1935 | A Norwegian Jewish boy, Arvid Claes, was born in Oslo.
He was deported to #Auschwitz in November 1942. He arrived at the camp on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
17 May 1917 | Polish man, Zdzisław Niewiadomski, was born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki. A waver.
In #Auschwitz from 11 December 1941
No. 24144
He perished in the camp on 6 May 1942
Look at him before the incarceration & in the registration image from Auschwitz.
16 May 1944 | The main phase of extermination of Hungarian Jews began at the German #Auschwitz camp. Three trains arrived on that day: ca. 9,000 people were murdered in gas chambers. Until 9 July, 142 trains brought ca. 420,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/
11 May 1934 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Györgyi Einhorn, was born.
In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
10 May 1910 | Leon (Leba) Rajbenbach, a Polish Jew, was born in Warsaw to Pinkhus and Braindel. He emigrated to France where he worked as a merchant. During the war he lived in Paris.
In 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
8 May 1945 | The 1st Soviet units passed through Terezín towards Prague. The #Theresienstadt ghetto was liberated. Over 140,000 Jews were imprisoned in the ghetto - 35,000 of them perished there. On this very same day the war in #Europe ended.
Read more: https://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/liberation
7 May 1904 | A Slovak Jewish woman, Irena Holzmanová, was born in Močidľany.
On 15 September 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
7 May 1922 | A Czech Jew, Hanuš Kolben, was born in Ústí nad Labem.
He was deported from Theresienstadt Ghetto to #Auschwitz on 28 September 1944. He perished in KL Dachau on 23 March 1945.
5 May 1928 | An Italian Jewish girl Giuseppina Da Fano was born in Rhodes.
She was deported to #Auschwitz in July 1944. She did not survive.
3 May 1901 | A Polish Jew, Mordka Hoch, was born in Radom. A baker.
In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 37498
He perished in the camp on 2 August 1942.
29 April 1945 | The US Army soldiers liberated #Dachau - the first concentration camp created in Nazi Germany which became a model camp for the entire SS concentration camps system. Over 205,000 people were imprisoned there between 1933-1945. Some 41,500 were murdered there.
25 April 1925 | French Jewish girl, Marthe Suzanne Tepfer, was born in Luneville.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 8 November 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She did not survive.
22 April 1932 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Paulette Liliane, Buschel, was born in Antwerp.
In 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
