23 August 1905 | A Czech Jewish woman, Kateřina Picková, was born in Bučovice. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 December 1943. She did not survive. image
22 August 1925 | German Jewish boy Erich Günther Gutmacher was born in Berlin. He emigrated to the Netherlands. In August 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and registered in the camp after the selection (no. unknown). He perished in the camp on 22 August 1942. image
22 August 1897 | Pole Stanisław Tokarski was born in Krakow. Engineer of roads and bridges. In #Auschwitz from 19 September 1942. No. 64611 He was shot in the camp on 25 June 1943. image
22 August 1942 | A transport of Jews deported from occupied Yugoslavia arrived at #Auschwitz. After the selection 110 men and 86 women were registered in the camp as prisoners. The remaining people (their number is unknown) were murdered immediately in gas chambers. Among the deported there were members of the Herrmann family: Julio (architect), Bela (co-owner of Weisz & Herrmann clothing manufacture), his son Vilim & his wife Edita. None of them survived. image
22 August 1931 | Italian Jewish girl Lia Sadun was born in Siena. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. image
22 August 1942 | Female Jehovah’s Witnesses prisoners employed as servants in SS families houses were transferred from Auschwitz II-Birkenau to Stabsgebäude (staff building) near Auschwitz I to prevent the possibility of SS men and their families contracting typhus. Because of their religious principles, pacifistic views & their organization’s international connections Jehovah’s Witnesses were persecuted in Nazi Germany. image
22 August 1922 | Polish Jewish woman, Sura Ejgier, was born in Opatów. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 31 July 1943. She did not survive. image
22 August 1911 | Pole Edward Dudek was born in Czermina. A bank clerk. In #Auschwitz from 30 July 1941 No. 19805 He perished in the camp on 22 November 1941. image
22 August 1941 | Hungarian Jewish girl Beáta Donner was born. In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. image
22 August 1896 | Jewish man, Salomon Lupovici, was born in Baku (then Russian Empire, today Azerbaijan). He emigrated to France. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 17 December 1943. He did not survive. image