27 April 1943 | A French Jewish boy, Guy Altauz, was born in Grenoble.

In August 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

27 April 1910 | A Polish woman, Stanisława Katarzyńska, was born in Grodzisk near Ojców. A tailor.

In #Auschwitz from 11 July 1942.
No. 8551
She was evacuated to Ravensbrück and liberated there.

27 April 1923 | A Czech Jewish woman, Anna Glaserová, was born in Prague.

In #Theresienstadt Ghetto from 24 October 1942.
On 6 September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz .
She did not survive.

27 April 1905 | A German Sinti, Franz Sattler, was born in Wernfeld.

In #Zigeunerlager in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 16 March 1943.
No. Z-3541
Date of death: 29 November 1943.

27 April 1925 | A French Jewish girl, Paulette Bloch, was born in Paris.

On 31 July 1944 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz . She did not survive.

26 April 1922 | Norwegian Jew, Voktor Rubinstein, was born in Oslo.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was registered in the camp.
He perished there on 23 December 1942.

A Polish soldier, Witold Pilecki was imprisoned in Auschwitz on 22 September 1940.

Pilecki undertook the mission to infiltrate the camp in order to create a conspiracy network there, organize communications, send reliable data about German crimes in the camp, and possibly…

26 April 1930 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Geza Steingiszer, was born.

In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

ONLINE LESSON | Deportations from the Zamość Region to Auschwitz

This lesson is dedicated to the fate of 1,301 Polish people deported to Auschwitz within the ethnic cleansing program perpetrated by Nazi Germany in the Zamość Region in 1942/3.

lekcja.auschwitz.org/dep_zam_EN/

26 April 1910 | A Polish man, Stanisław Kałuża, was born. A clerk.

In #Auschwitz from 8 October 1940.
No. 5709 (political prisoner)
In 1941 he was transferred to KL Neuengamme.
He survived.

Block 11 at Auschwitz I, known as the Death Block, was primarily the detention center or a prison within the concentration camp system.

Watch the short video about the functions of Block 11 and its isolated yard where shooting executions were held: youtu.be/3hjDCsqgGY0

26 April 1920 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Mina Leuw, was born in Amsterdam. A machine stitcher.

In December 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

A Polish soldier, Witold Pilecki was imprisoned in Auschwitz on 22 September 1940.

Pilecki undertook the mission to infiltrate the camp in order to create a conspiracy network there, organize communications, send reliable data about German crimes in the camp, and possibly…

26 April 1925 | A Czech Jew, Jiří Teller, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 May 1944. He did not survive.

Auschwitz Memorial

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26 April 1897 | A Czech, Jiri Georg Daniel, was born. A worker.

In #Auschwitz from 20 May 1942.
No. 35928
He perished in the camp on 12 August 1942.

26 April 1886 | A Czech Jewish woman, Klára Böhmová, was born.

In #Theresienstadt Ghetto from 5 July 1943.
Deported to #Auschwitz on 23 October 1944 with her husband Rudolf. They were both murdered in a gas chamber.

Listen to a new episode of the 'On Auschwitz' #podcast dedicated to the story of Witold Pilecki, a co-founder of the resistance in Auschwitz.

Dr. Adam Cyra, the author of a biography of Witold Pilecki, talks about his life, work, and tragic death: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ausch…

26/27 April 1943 | Three Poles escaped #Auschwitz : Edward Ciesielski (12969), Witold Pilecki (4859) & Jan Redzej (5430). #Pilecki was one of the co-founders of military resistance inside the camp. After the escape, he wrote an elaborate report about German crimes in Auschwitz.