23 September 1944 | Probably on this day, due to the decommissioning of Bunker No. II, the SS carried out a selection among the prisoners of the Sonderkommando. More than 200 of them were taken from Birkenau and—under the pretext of being transferred to one of the subcamps—were taken to the area of the so-called Kanada I warehouses. There, they were deceitfully led into a disinfection chamber and murdered with Zyklon B. The bodies of the victims were transported to crematorium III and burned.

25 September 1938 | A French Jewish boy, Abel Bac, was born in Paris. On his 4th birthday, he was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. On 27 September 1942 he was murdered in a gas chamber. --- Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau - Bunkers I & II:

Claude Vecksler, a Jewish boy from Paris. He was murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz II-Birkenau on 25 September 1942. He was 11 months old. He arrived at Auschwitz in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy in German-occupied France. He was among 475 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection. --- Listen to our podcast dedicated to the tragic fate of some 232 thousand children deported to Auschwitz.

25 September 1911 | A German Jewish woman, Hilde Stern, was born in Nuremberg. During the war she lived in Nagysalló in Hungary. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

25 September 1942 | A German Sinti girl, Theresie Hellberg, was born in Rostock. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 15 March 1943. No. Z-3915 She perished in the camp on 28 March 1943. --- The fate of the Roma in Auschwitz: Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschwitz/ Podcast:

25 September 1938 | Dutch Jewish girl, Frederika Borstrock, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in February 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- Children at Auschwitz Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/ Podcast:

22 September 1942 | Two Polish prisoners escaped from the SS recreation center Soletal (Sola-Hütte) in Międzybrodzie (about 30 km south of the camp): Alfons Kiprowski (b. 9 Oct 1921, camp no. 801, registered 20 June 1940) and Piotr Jaglic (Jaglicz) (b. 29 June 1922, camp no. 3616, registered 30 August 1940 – pictured), who had been carrying out finishing work and landscaping there.

25 September 1882 | Dutch Jewish woman Naatje Dessaur-Susan was born in Amsterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 26 September 1942 in a transport of 928 Jews deported from #Westerbork. She was among 749 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection. --- A short video about the history of Auschwitz:

25 September 1892 | A Czech Jew, Otto Klinger, was born in Prague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 October 1942. He did not survive. --- The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz & the so-called family camp created in Birkenau by the SS:

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The history of the deportation of Jews from the ghetto in Theresienstadt to the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau