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Jul 3 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
3 July 1941 | A Pole Antoni Łyko was shot at the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz. Łyko was a #football player of @WislaKrakowSA & the Polish national team. He was registered in the camp on 5 April 1941. He received number 11780.

He was 34 years old.
After the firing of the salvo by the firing squad, Antoni Lyko was still alive and twice tried to get up on his own. Then one of the SS officers shot him in the head from close range.
Another Krakow soccer player was shot in the same execution. Witold Zielinski (no. 15429) was a player of @MKSCracoviaSSA. He was also a professional graphic designer.
Sportspeople were among victims of #Auschwitz. Some could practice wrestling, boxing, football, basketball & more - often as entertainment for SS guards.

Remember them with us. RT & share our #podcast "Sport & sportspeople in Auschwitz" ⬇️
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May 23
23 May 1941 | A transport of 216 Poles deported to #Auschwitz by Sipo u. SD from Radom arrived at the camp. There were 9 Jews among them. In this transport there were 25 #teachers. 19 of them were murdered in the camp. This thread presents four of them.
23 May 1941 | Jan Michalak was registered in #Auschwitz (camp no. 15926). He was born in Modła Królewska on 18 May 1909. A teacher in Piwaki. He perished in the camp on 8 November 1941. He was 32 years old.
23 May 1941 | Ludwik Malenta was registered in #Auschwitz (camp no. 15927). He was born in Szczerców on 25 August 1906. A teacher in Ręczno. He persiedh in the camp on 4 April 1942. He was 35 years old.
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May 17
Unique discovery at @AuschwitzMuseum‼️

Inside a child's shoe, personal information of its owner – a Czech Jewish girl, Věra Vohryzková – was found. We also identified a registration photo of her father & a suitcase that belonged to her uncle.
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Věra Vohryzková was born in January 1939. She was deported to Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto in December 1943 together with her mother, Štěpánka, and her two years older brother, Jiří. They all perished in the camp.
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Apr 25
25 April 1942 | 100 Poles were registered in #Auschwitz. They were transferred to the camp by Sipo u. SD from Krakow. It was a group of arrested on 16 April at Café of Artists. Among them were four Polish painters: Tadeusz Mróz, Ludwik Puget, Tadeusz Różycki & Karol Siwek 1/5
Ludwik Puget (prisoner n. 33164) was born in Cracow on 21 June 1877. Sculptor, painter, art theoretician. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, founder of "Rzeźba" ('Sculpture') Association. In the camp from 25 April 1942. Shot in #Auschwitz on 27 May 1942. 2/5
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Apr 17
17 April 1942 | A transport of 58 Polish people deported by Sipo & SD from Cracow arrived at #Auschwitz. 8 of them were Jews - all of them perished in the camp. Below we present three of them: Norbert Głuszecki and his two sons, Rudolf and Seweryn. 1/4 ImageImageImage
17 April 1942 | Norbert Głuszecki, a notary public born in Podwołoczyska near Tarnopol on 27 November 1886, received number 29801 at #Auschwitz. He perished in the camp on 13 May 1942. | His camp death certificate notes that he converted to Catholicism. 2/4 Image
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16 April 1947 | SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of the German #Auschwitz camp was hanged after he was sentenced to death by the Supreme National Tribunal in Warsaw.
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Rudolf Höss was born in Baden-Baden on 25 November 1901. He joined the Nazi Party in 1922 and the SS in 1934. He started his career in Dachau in December 1934, then he worked in KL Sachsenhausen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_H%…
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In May 1940 Rudolf Höss was appointed by Heinrich Himmler as the commandant of a new concentration camp created in occupied Polish territory annexed to the Third Reich - #Auschwitz. 3/9
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Apr 11
11 April 1945 | American forces liberated the #Buchenwald concentration camp. Among liberated prisoners were those evacuated from #Auschwitz.

Between 1937-45 the Germans imprisoned in this camp almost 280,000 people. Over 56,000 of them were killed. buchenwald.de/en/72/
Read more about the chronology of liberation of KL Buchenwald: buchenwald.de/en/466/
"I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it, I have no words."

CBS reporter Edward R. Morrow was the first reporter at Buchenwald after the liberation by @USArmy. Listen to his harrowing words on what he witnessed: collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog…
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