18 August 1920 | Ivan Makartsev was born. A Soviet army soldier.
In #Auschwitz from October 1941.
No. R-9737 (Soviet prisoner of war)
He perished in the camp on 22 November 1941.
18 August 1866 | A German Jew, Chaim Yehuda Weyl, was born in Rogasen (today RogoΕΊno in Poland). A rabbi.
In November 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork and murdered in a gas chamber.
18 August 1920 | Polish Jewish woman, Nina Seewald, was born in Klasno near Krakow. She emigrated to Belgium.
In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen. She did not survive.
17 August 1936 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Jozef Goudsmith (left), was born in Kampen.
He was deported to #Auschwitz in November 1942 with his mother Klara and brother Louis. Most probably they were all murdered in a s gas chamber after the selection.
17 August 1906 | A Pole, Jan Skowron, was born in Siedliszowice. A bricklayer.
In #Auschwitz from 1 October 1941.
No. 21292
He perished in the camp on 6 February 1942.
17 August 1942 | A transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen in German-occupied Belgium arrived at #Auschwitz. After the arrival selection, 157 men & 205 women were registered.
638 people were murdered in gas chambers.
Among them was Henri Herscovici. He was 6.
17 August 1893 | Italian Jew, Ugo De Benedetti, was born in Torino.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Milan on 6 december 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
17 August 1940 | In the weekly report, the SS Construction Office announced the completion of the installation of the first crematorium furnace & plans to launch it soon.
In total, the Topf and SΓΆhne company installed three furnaces in Auschwitz I that could incinerate up to 340 bodies per day. The metal carts were used to insert corpses into the furnaces.
Watch a short video about the history of the first crematorium of Auschwitz:
