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17 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read
17 January 1933 | French Jewish girl Rosa Lisoprawski was born in Paris.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 22 January 1944 in a transport of 1,115 Jews deported from Drancy. She was murdered after selection in the gas chamber.
Rosa Lisoprawski was deported in transport no. 66 from Drancy together with her parents Mendel and Rywka as well as her three younger siblings: Paulette, Samek and Daniel. None of them survived.
Mendel and Rywka Lisoprawski in Montsouris park in Paris together with their three children Rosa, Samek and Daniel & their niece and nephew.
Learn about the process of turning Auschwitz into a center of extermination of Jews in gas chambers, as well as the situation of Jewish prisoners in the camp: lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Other lessons: lesson.auschwitz.org

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She arrived at #Auschwitz on 28 September 1942 in a transport of 1,742 Jews deported from Malines / Mechelen. She was murdered in a gas chamber. Image
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17 January 1945 | SS physician Josef Mengele liquidated his laboratory at the BIIf section of #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. During the evacuation he took with him the entire documentation of his experiments made on prisoners: twins, dwarfs, and people with disabilities.
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Before the 76th anniversary of the liberation of #Auschwitz we bring together the most important facts about the last stage of the operation of this German Nazi camp. See the rest of this [THREAD] below. 1/11 #Auschwitz76
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Even being awaken in the middle of the night, the prisoners needed to be able to provide their number in German.

Numbers allow us to give a specific date of deportation. There were several number series applied - separate for women & men, and also for various categories-groups.
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200,000 Jews
140,000 Poles
21,000 Roma & Sinti
12,000 Soviet POWs
9,000 Czechs
6,000 Belarussians
4,000 Germans
4,000 French
1,500 Russians
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15 January 1918 | Polish woman Janina Unkiewicz was born in Lublin. A student.

In #Auschwitz from 12 December 1942 No. 26776
She escaped during the evacuation of the camp. Image
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'We stood in the cold during the roll call from 6.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. Then, about 20 women died during the roll call itself, as they didn’t have warm clothes, and many caught a cold...
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