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Feb 23

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

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Feb 17

A Norwegian Jew, David Becker.

He was born in Drammen. He perished in the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz on 17 February 1943.
He was 44.

David Becker was born on June 24, 1898 in Drammen. His parents were Mina (nee Hirschhorn, born in 1869 in Latvia) and Mendel Davidor Becker (b. 1862 in Lithuania). He had six siblings. David was a merchant.

He married Signe Paula Saposnikoff (b. 1902 in Sweden). They had three children; Sigurd (b. 1924), Ivar (b. 1929) and Sonja Rita (b. 1931). David was arrested on June 2, 1942 and transported to Grini. In August, he was sent to Kvænangen in northern Norway for forced labor.

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Feb 7

7 February 1979 | Josef Mengele, an SS camp doctor who made selections & perpetrated deadly pseudo-medical experiments on #Auschwitz prisoners died in Brasil. After the war, he fled to South America, where he evaded capture for the rest of his life.

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

Mengele’s other areas of research 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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Feb 6

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

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Feb 6

5 February 1919 | A Pole, Jerzy Radwanek, was born in Krakow. A pilot.

In #Auschwitz from 19 December 1940.
No. 7782
In 1944 transferred to Gross-Rosen. He survived.

For helping Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz he was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations.

After work in different groups and a stay in the hospital, Jerzy Radwanek become an electrician in the leather tannery. The inmates working there included members of the resistance—Witold Pilecki, Henryk Bartosiewicz, and Stanisław Kazuba—who enlisted him into the resistance.

When female Jewish prisoners were employed in the warehouses containing the personal belongings of killed Jews on the premises of the tanning factory, he began to help them, providing them in secret with food and medications.

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Feb 4

Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Gas chamber and crematorium II - ruins of the crematorium hall.
The building was blown up by the SS on 20 January 1945.

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The crematorium located on the ground level designed by Topf und Söhne company from #Erfurt was equipped with five 3-muffles ovens connected to one chimney. According to the producers the ovens could burn 1,440 corpses every 24 hours.

Our podcast explains why in March 1942 the Auschwitz concentration camp became - at the same time - an extermination center for Jews. anchor.fm/auschwitz-memo…

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