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25 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
25 December 1943 | There were 86,920 prisoners in the entire Auschwitz concentration camp system: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Auschwitz III-Monowitz camps & sub-camps: 56,596 men and 30,324 women.
The history of #Auschwitz is complex as it combined two functions: a concentration camp and an extermination center. It was used by the Nazi Germany to persecute different groups of people. Our online lesson explains the most important aspects: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/
The podcast tells about the details of the process which led to the creation of the German Nazi Auschwitz camp & about its first prisoners.
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Listen to our #podcast to learn why in spring 1942 the Auschwitz concentration camp became also an extermination center for Jewish people ⬇️ anchor.fm/auschwitz-memo…
The Auschwitz III-Monowitz camp was created in October 1942 on the site of the expelled & destroyed Polish village of Monowice. It was linked to the construction of the synthetic rubber plant of IG Farbenindustrie.
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23 Dec
23 December 1900 | Pole Franciszek Jaźwiecki was born in Cracow. A painter.
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He illegally created many portraits of co-prisoners at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and Gross-Rosen camps. He survived.
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19 Dec
19 December 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Marta Weisz, was born in Sárköz. During the war, she lived in Szatmárnémeti.

On 31 May 1944, she was murdered in a gas chamber of Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
Marta Weisz was the daughter of Bandi (fate unknown) and Klari. She had an elder brother Robert. Klari and the children were most probably murdered in a gas chamber together.
Some 430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Learn more about their story in our online lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

Other lessons: lesson.auschwitz.org
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2 Dec
Auschwitz I. Block 4. Zyklon B canisters.

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From the end of the summer of 1941, it was also used sporadically to put to death Auschwitz I prisoners and Soviet POWs; from the spring of 1942 it was used regularly to murder Jews in the Birkenau gas chambers.
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9 Nov
9-10 November 1938 | November Pogrom (known also as Kristallnacht), a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds killed & died by suicide, 30,000 men arrested, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristalln…
The name Kristallnacht ("Crystal Night") comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues were smashed.
In an article on the evening of 11 November, Joseph Goebbels ascribed the events to the "healthy instincts" of the German people: "The German people are anti-Semitic. It has no desire to have its rights restricted or to be provoked in the future by parasites of the Jewish race."
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4 Nov
#tattoos in Auschwitz

#Auschwitz was the only German Nazi concentration camp where - from some point - the camp numbers were tattooed, first on chests and later on forearms of prisoners. 1/4
In fall of 1941 the camp administration started tattooing Soviet POWs. Initially the number was on the left side of the chest. Polish prisoners transferred to Birkenau from Auschwitz I in March 1942 were tattooed the same way, as well as Jews arriving in the first transports. 2/4
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14 August 1941 | Saint ft. Maximilian #Kolbe OFM was killed with a phenol injection inside a starvation cell of Block 11 of the German #Auschwitz I camp. On 29 July 1941 he offered his life to save a person selected for starvation death after an escape of a prisoner. ImageImageImage
The death certificate issued by the SS administration confirming the death of Father Maximilian Kolbe in #Auschwitz on 14 August 1941. The official cause of death given is "Myocardinsuffizienz": myocardial insufficiency. Image
Today we recommend our online lesson dedicated to the fate of Catholic priests & clerics, nuns and clergy of other Christian churches who were prisoners of Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_18_duchowie… Image
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