18 July 1944 | A concert was organized for the SS garrison members of the #Auschwitz camp. The guest star of the evening in the SS-Küche (SS kitchen & canteen near the Auschwitz I camp - in the picture) was a German actress from Berlin Maria Landrock with her band.

18 July 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Ervin David, was born. In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

18 July 1924 | A Polish woman, Ludwika Sędziak, was born in Zamość. In #Auschwitz from 7 October 1942. No. 22205 She perished in the camp on 19 November 1942.

18 July 1904 | A Polish Jew, Icek Szczekociński, was born in Pińczów. A teacher. In #Auschwitz from 30 January 1942. No. 26189 He perished in the camp on 16 February 1942.

18 July 1925 | A Czech Jewish woman, Mariana Neumannová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

18 July 1934 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Betsy Cohen, was born in Antwerp. In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

17 July 1864 | A, Italian Jewish woman, Clotilde Nissim (nee Levi), was born. She arrived in #Auschwitz on 6 February 1944 in a transport of 700 Jews deported from Milan and Verona. She was among 572 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

17 July 1900 | A Czech Jewish woman, Hilda Dörflerová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 16 October 1944. She did not survive.

17 July 1923 | A Polish woman, Emilia Woźniak, was born in Lipna Wola. A nurse-paramedic. In #Auschwitz from 19 January 1943. No. 29997 She was liberated on 27 January 1945.

On 17 July 1942, the SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler began a two-day inspection of the Auschwitz camp. On the first day, the camp commandant Rudolf Höss described him the state of development of the camp. Himmler visited also the entire 'zone of interest' of the camp. In Birkenau he saw prisoners at work, the living barracks, kitchen and infirmary as well as emaciated victims of the epidemic.