8 March 1941 | In a 15-minute period Germans evicted the inhabitants of the village of Pławy without any previous warning. The residents were brought in lorries and oxcarts to the assembly hall of the Praga company in Brzezinka where they remained until the next day.
On Sunday they were all transferred to Gorlice in the General Government. Miners living in Pławy were resettled with their families in Brzeszcze and Jawiszowice on March 10 and 11.
In total, in connection with the creation & expansion of #Auschwitz Germans deported from the town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz) & nearby villages around 8-9 thousand Poles. Moreover, they deported the entire Jewish population of Oświęcim - about 7,000 people to nearby ghettos.
A total of eight villages and more than a hundred buildings located in the town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz) in the immediate vicinity of Auschwitz I were destroyed.
"Expulsion of Polish and Jewish population from Oświęcim and nearby villages 1940-42"
The online lesson dedicated to expulsions that the German authorities carried out between 1940-42 against the Polish & Jewish inhabitants of Oświęcim & nearby villages.
1,3 million people were deported to Auschwitz. Among some 400,000 people registered as prisoners, there were 131,000 women: 82,000 Jewish, 31,000 Polish, 11,000 Roma as well as Russian, Belorussian, German, French, Czech & Yugoslavian. #InternationalWomensDay#WomensHistoryMonth
Women became prisoners of the German Nazi #Auschwitz concentration camp in late March 1942. The first two transports - of German female prisoners transferred from the Ravensbrück camp & Slovak Jewish women deported from Poprad - arrived on 26 March. #InternationalWomensDay
From transports of Jews deported by Germans for extermination to #Auschwitz SS doctors selected hundreds of thousands of women & girls to be murdered in gas chambers immediately after their arrival. Pregnant women & mothers with babies were murdered too. #InternationalWomensDay
6 March 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Willem Philip van Naarden, was born in Amsterdam.
In March 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
Willem Philip van Naarden was a son of Levie and Elisabeth. In 1943 they decided to go into hiding. Willem was placed with a family of 7 children in Bennebroek.
At some point Betty wanted to check how her son was doing, and asked a family friend, who worked for an organization that helped Jews in hiding, about him. The brother of this person most probably denounced Willem. In mid-November 1943 Willem was arrested.
A visit to @AuschwitzMuseum is a unique personal & educational experience. Thanks to our free online lessons everyone can learn about different aspects of the history of Auschwitz.
"Auschwitz – concentration and extermination camp"
This is a compendium of knowledge about the history of the German Nazi camp. The lesson explains the two functions of the camp that was used to persecute different groups of people.
The lesson is dedicated to a unique document that shows the reality of functioning of Auschwitz and the fate of its victims through the works of art created by the prisoners.
The Auschwitz Museum has completed a two-year project, “Reconstructing the identities of deportees and prisoners of KL Auschwitz based on archival data from @AuschwitzMuseum and @ArolsenArchives". The research focused on the KL Buchenwald documents.
Thanks to the research we acquired some 90,000 documents, such as personal files, files from the prisoners’ employment department, various name lists, and documents informing about further transfers or prisoners’ death.
During the project, we also obtained several names and photographs of Sinti and Roma and Soviet prisoners of war. Furthermore, the lists of Jews deported from the Litzmannstadt and Theresienstadt ghettos, and French political prisoners have been partly reconstructed.
23 February 1943 | SS guards transferred 39 prisoners (13 to 17 years old) from Auschwitz II-Birkenau to #Auschwitz I and placed them in Block 20, one of the infirmary buildings. In the evening of this day, they were all killed with phenol injections. 1/4
The injections were administered by SS-Unterscharführer Herbert Scherpe, the Second Medical Officer. Some of the boys arrived with their parents on December 13 and 16, 1942 and February 5, 1943, in transports of Poles expelled by Germans from the Zamość Region. 2/4
After the end of the war Herber Scherpe initially stayed in a POW camp, then lived in Mannheim. In 1961 he was arrested by the West German authorities. During the second Auschwitz trial, he was sentenced by the court in Frankfurt am Main to four and a half years in prison. 3/4
6 February 1943 | At 3:30 am a general roll-call ordered by the SS camp authorities started in the female camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. All the female prisoners were driven outside of the camp. Poorly dressed, with no food they stood on snow-covered land until 5 pm. 1/5
Return was ordered in running. Female guards & SS men stood at the gate and rushed the coming back prisoners with hits of their clubs. Those women who were not able to keep up, as well as those weak, sick & older were pulled from the ranks with a hook. 2/5
They were brought to Block 25, where they awaited transportation to the gas chambers. Block 25 at BIa sector of Birkenau camp (also known as the block of death) was called "waiting room for the gas". 3/5