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10 June 1942 | A group of prisoners of the penal company at #Auschwitz who were digging the main draining ditch at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp, decided to escape. About 50 Poles started to run, only 9 managed to flee the pursuit. Some were later captured. | THREAD Image
Aleksander Buczyński, on the 4th day after the escape he was captured by German gendarmes near Mysłowice. During the investigation he was incarcerated in Block 11. He was executed on 14 July 1942. Image
Tadeusz Chróścicki managed to swim across the Vistula river and after a long march, thanks to assistance provided by the Poles encountered on the way, he crossed the border of the General Government. He remained in hiding in Radom. He survived. Image
August Kowalczyk managed to cross the Vistula river and hide thanks to the assistance of the Poles he met. Then he crossed the border of the General Government. He was a soldier in the Home Army. He survived. Image
Jan Laskowski broke free from the chase. However he was caught on 28 July 1942 in Tarnów and deported to Auschwitz again. Image
Jerzy Lachecki (Łachecki) fled the pursuers and survived the war. Image
Józef Pamrow fled the pursuers but on 27 February 1943 he was captured and sent to Auschwitz again. He was shot during his next escape attempt. Image
Zenon Piernikowski fled the pursuers. His further fate remains unknown. Image
Eugeniusz Stoczewski was captured by German gendarmes on 14 June 1942 near Mysłowice. During the investigation he was held in Block 11 at Auschwitz I. He was shot on 14 July 1942. Image
Józef Traczyk perished on 10 June during the chase. Image
Our online lesson describes the geographical location of the Auschwitz camp, its security system, alarm system, repressions faced by captured escapees, the collective revolts and finally tells the stories of 25 escapes. lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_15_ucieczki/

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Apr 16
16 April 1947 | SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz was executed by hanging after he was sentenced to death by the Supreme National Tribunal in Warsaw.

[THREAD] The scene of the execution of the former commandant of Auschwitz in 1947. Few people in mililtary uniforms stand around a man in military jacket (Rudolf Hess). Next to him is a man in a covered head. On the right side of the frame thee are steps leading to a gallows. Behind them all two buildings are visible - a block with windows and the entrance to a bunker.
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%…
A man in SS uniform (Rudolf Hoess) holding a cigarette in his left hand
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. Two man in SS uniforms standing outside - on the left Heinrich Himmler, on the right - Rudolf Hoess - the commandant of Auschwitz. Behind them - a renovated structure of a chimney of the crematorium surrounded by a scaffolding.
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Apr 6
6 April 1944 | The Gestapo under the direction of SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Barbie raided the Jewish orphanage in French town of #Izieu. 44 children and their 7 educators were taken to #Drancy & later deported to #Auschwitz. Only one person survived. Image
Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, who brought Klaus Barbie to justice in 1983, later wrote: "Forty-four children deported - no mere statistic, but rather forty-four tragedies which continue to cause us pain ..." Image
In this photo you can see the children on the balcony of the children's home in Izieu, summer 1943. Seated in the center, in the second row from the bottom is Laja Feldblum. She was the only survivor of the Gestapo raid on the children's home on 6 April 1944. Image
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Mar 24
Jozef & Wiktoria Ulma risked their lives to help Jews during the #Holocaust. On 24 March 1944 the German police discovered the Jews in hiding.

The Jewish family was shot, as was the entire Ulma family - parents & 6 children. Wiktoria was 7 months pregnant.

March 24 - the anniversary of the murder of the Ulma family - is today in Poland the National Day of Remembrance of Poles who saved Jews during German occupiation. See this thread to learn about #Righteous linked with #Auschwitz.Image
#Auschwitz prisoner Jerzy Radwanek helped many Jews in the camp. jfr.org/rescuer-storie…
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#Auschwitz survivors Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Władysław Bartoszewski were honoured for their work in "Żegota" - the Polish Council to Aid Jews en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBego…

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Jan 27
[THREAD] Auschwitz numbers

At least 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz: 1,1 mln Jews, 150k Poles, 23k Roma, 15k Soviet POWs & 25k others (incl. almost 400 Jehova's witnesses and at least 77 homosexuals). Around 1,1 million people were murdered in Auschwitz, 90% Jews.

Out of 1,3 million deported, ca. 900,000 Jews were murdered in gas chambers after arrival & 400,000 people became prisoners of the camp. The estimated number of people murdered in the Auschwitz camp: 1 mln Jews, 75k Poles, 21k Roma, 14k Soviet POWs & 12k others.
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Among the 400 thousand people who were registered in #Auschwitz as prisoners there were:

200,000 Jews
140,000 Poles
21,000 Roma & Sinti
12,000 Soviet POWs
9,000 Czechs
6,000 Belarussians
4,000 Germans
4,000 French
1,500 Russians
& others

There were also several thousand Poles, Roma & Soviet POWs deported to #Auschwitz & killed there without registration.

Out of over 400k people imprisoned in #Auschwitz, ca. 200,000 lost their lives: 100k Jews, 75k Poles, 21k Roma & Sinti, 14k Soviet POWs & over 10k others.
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Nov 11, 2023
11 November 1941 | On the Polish Independence Day the Germans carried out the first execution by shooting in the yard of Block 11 of the #Auschwitz camp. 76 people were shot in the back of their heads - almost all of them Poles. 1/5 Image
Among the executed on 11 November 1941 there were 27 prisoners kept in bunkers of Block 11 for various offenses & 49 prisoners summoned from the camp by the Political Department (camp Gestapo). 2/5 Image
The victims had to undress completely inside Block 11 washrooms. Then their hands were tied. Before the execution, their numbers were written on their chests or their thighs. They were shot in the back of their heads by SS-Hauptscharführer Gerhard Palitzsch. 3/5
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May 24, 2023
25 May 1948 | Witold Pilecki was executed in Warsaw. A Polish soldier in 1920 & 1939 wars, volunteer prisoner of the German #Auschwitz camp, co-founder of camp resistance. He escaped in April 1943 & wrote a report about the crimes in the camp. lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_16_ruch_opo… ImageImage
After his escape #Pilecki participated in the Warsaw Uprising, he was a POW at Lamsdorf & Murnau camps. After the war in the Polish II Corps of gen. Władysław Anders in Italy. During the communist terror in Poland sentenced to death & murdered on 25 May 1948. ImageImage
"I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear." (Witold Pilecki) ImageImage
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