5 August 1905 | A German Jewish woman, Martha Voss, was born in Loesnich. During the war she lived in The Hague.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
5 August 1910 | A Pole, Józef Kowalski, was born in Warsaw. An electric-technician.
In #Auschwitz from 1 February 1941.
No. 9845
He perished in the camp in 1941.
5 August 1944 | During Warsaw Uprising the 'Zośka' battalion of the Home Army freed some 350 Jews from KL Warschau (so-called Gesiowka camp). The vast majority of released Jewish prisoners took part in the uprising, many of them dying during the fighting.
5 August 1874 | A Polish Jew, Majer Tepper, was born in Mrzygłód. A farmer.
In #Auschwitz form 16 April 1942.
No. 29748
He perished in the camp on 31 May 1942.
5 August 1928 | A French Jewish girl, Bella Rubin, was born in Paris.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 19 July 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy together white her mother Marta and a younger sister Micheline. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.
5 August 1907 | A Pole Adam Kopyciński was born in Osielec Podhalański.
In #Auschwitz from 8 January 1942.
No. 25294
He played piano & lyre in the camp orchestra. In May 1944, he became its conductor.
Liberated in Ebensee.
After the war the director of the opera in Wrocław.
5 August 1942 | Polish Jew, Dawid Pawłowicz, perished in the #Auschwitz camp.
Dawid was born in Radom on 6 June 1905. He was a cabman.
He was registered in the camp on 2 July 1942.
No. 44385
He survived 34 days.
5 August 1923 | A Polish Jew Szlama, Liman, was born in Łódź. A stocking maker.
In #Auschwitz from 25 October 1941.
No. 22177
He perished in the camp on 3 November 1941.
5 August 1886 | A Czech Jewish woman, Bedřiška Willnerová, was born in Svojšín.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 15 May 1944. She did not survive.
4 August 1920 | A Polish Jew, Jerzy Klein, was born in Vienna. A welder.
In #Auschwitz from 11 December 1941.
No. 24083
He perished in the camp on 15 March 1942.
