13 May 1901 | Witold Pilecki was born. A Polish soldier who fought in 1920 & 1939 wars, volunteer prisoner of the German #Auschwitz camp, and co-founder of camp resistance. He escaped in April 1943 & wrote a report about the crimes in the camp. Podcast:

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Polish soldier, Witold Pilecki was imprisoned in Auschwitz on 22 September 1940. Pilecki undertook the mission to infiltrate the camp in order to c...

13 May 1943 | Sara Cohen was born in Groningen in The Netherlands. She was a Dutch Jewish girl, a daughter of Jozef and Carolien. In February 1944 she was murdered in a gas chamber of #Auschwitz. She lived 9 months.

13 May 1943 | A transport of some 1,000 Yugoslavian Jewish men, women, and children arrived at Auschwitz from the ghetto in Zagreb. After arrival selection 30 men and 25 women were registered in the camp. The remaining people were murdered in a gas chamber.

13 May 1892 | A Polish Jew, Jankiel Frajlich, was born in Siedlce. A watchmaker. In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942. No. 22727 He perished in the camp on 28 February 1942.

13 May 1913 | A Polish man, Antoni Gąszczyk, was born in Zemborzyce. A farmer. In #Auschwitz from 6 December 1942. No. 80177 He perished in the camp on 8 February 1943.

13 May 1921 | Czech Jew, Jiří Altschul, was born in Prague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 15 May 1944. He did not survive.

14 May 1902 | A Polish Jew, Samuel Klein, was born in Nowy Sącz. A merchant. In #Auschwitz from 12 December 1941. No. 24305 He perished in the camp on 19 March 1942.

12 May 1918 | A Jewish woman, Sara Szanto, was born in Târgu Mureș in Romania. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

12 May 1894 | A Polish Jew, Samuel Grünhut, was born in Tarnów. A merchant. In #Auschwitz from 24 February 1942. No. 25208 He died of suicide in the bunker of Block 11 on 2 March 1942.

12 May 1914 | A Czech Roma, Isidor Holomek, was born in Kněžpole. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 19 March 1943. No. Z-4529 He perished in the camp on 12 June 1943.