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3 Feb

3 February 1915 | Pole Jan Baraś Komski was born in Bircza. A painter; He arrived at #Auschwitz on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles (no. 564). He escaped on 29 Dec 1942, was imprisoned again (no. 152884), transferred to Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen & Dachau. He survived.

In the years 1934‒1939 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. During the German occupation, he attempted to reach the Polish Army which was being created in France. He was arrested while crossing the border between the General Government and Slovakia.

On June 14, 1940 he was brought to Auschwitz in the first transport of Polish political prisoners. In the camp he was registered under the surname Baraś; he received number 564. In 1942, he was employed as a sketch artist in Arbeitseinsatz (prisoner employment department).

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3 Feb

2 February 1925 | A German Jew, Esra Jurovics, was born in Berlin.

He arrived in #Auschwitz in November 1942 in a transport of Jews deported from Mechelen / Malines in occupied Belgium (number unknown).
He perished in the camp on 29 January 1943

In the 1930s, Esra fled to the Netherlands and found refuge in the Loosdrechtsche Rade Pavilion, a group of German-speaking Jewish youths who had fled to the Netherlands after 1938 were staying. They were known as aliyah youth or Palestine pioneers.

During the war, after the first pioneers were called up in 1942, a hiding place was found for all pioneers from Loosdrecht. Esra had gone into hiding with a farmer in Nijehorne.

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17 Jan

17 January 1908 | Polish Jewish woman Salomea Poler (née Fejnman) was born in Warsaw. During the war she lived in Brussels.

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.

Salomea was married to Zelik. They had five children: Fanny, Rosette, Abraham, Jeannine and Lila.

Zelik left for Venezuela. He did not contact Salomea again. Salomea worked as a seamstress to support her children, but struggled financially.

A nearby Convent of les Soeurs du Saint Saveur provided aid to impoverished people in the area. When Lilia became ill, the nuns visited and brought her medicine and a doll. They offered to hide Lilia in the convent. Salomea agreed, but only if they would hide all of her children.

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17 Jan

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.

In Auschwitz Mengele carried out anthropometric, serological & morphological studies of the twins. He deliberately infected some children with typhus. The final phase of his experiments included killing of the twins & conducting a comparative analysis or particular organs.

Mengele’s other areas of interest were biological abnormalities, such as people with heterochromia iris - a pair of eyes with diverse coloration, the physiology and pathology of dwarfism as well as gangrenous disease of the face known as noma faciei.

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17 Jan

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

At the beginning of 1945, there were around 67,000 prisoners in the Auschwitz camp system. On 12 January 1945, the Soviets started their offensive. In mid-January head of the SS in the region, Ernst Schmauser gave the order to evacuate Auschwitz. 2/11

The final evacuation began on 17 January 1945. Around 58,000 prisoners were evacuated from the Auschwitz camp system. Columns of prisoners were leaving the camps and subcamps between 17 and 21 January. 3/11

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17 Jan

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.

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