9 May 1872 | A Czech Jew, Richard Basch, was born in Prague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive.
8 May 1917 | Nikolai Malcev was born. A Soviet army soldier.
In #Auschwitz from October 1941.
No. R-1655 (Soviet prisoner of war)
He perished in the camp on 22 January 1942.
8 May 1944 | SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss, the creator and the first commandant of the German Nazi #Auschwitz camp, returned as the SS garrison chief with the task of supervising the operation of the extermination of Jews deported from #Hungary. http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/
8 May 1940 | An Italian Jewish boy, Gianfranco Pontecorvo, was born in Rome.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 October 1943 in a transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome. He was among 839 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
8 May 1945 | The 1st Soviet units passed through Terezín towards Prague. The #Theresienstadt ghetto was liberated. Over 140,000 Jews were imprisoned in the ghetto - 35,000 of them perished there. On this very same day the war in #Europe ended.
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8 May 1932 | A German Jewish boy, Kurt de Jong, was born in Frankfurt am Main. During the war, he lived in Rotterdam.
On 21 October 1942, he was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz.
8 May 1906 | A Polish man, Franciszek Bąk was born in Ząb. A carpenter.
In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941.
No. 24502
He perished in the camp on 13 September 1942.
8 May 1873 | A Czech Jew, Samuel Bienenfeld, was born.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt on 15 December 1943. He did not survive. His wife Selma perished in Theresienstadt on 25 February 1943.
