17 October 1918 | Dmitry Poyakov was born. A Soviet army soldier. In #Auschwitz from October 1941. No. R-1423 (Soviet prisoner of war) He perished in the camp on 26 November 1941. --- Learn about some 15,000 Soviet POWs deported to Auschwitz: Lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_20_jency/ Podcast:

17 October 1914 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Edit Kolozsvari, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz:

17 October 1896 | A German Jewish woman, Hertha Friedländer, was born in Berlin. On 12 March 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her husband Josef. She was probably murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. Josef perished in the camp.

17 October 1927 | French Jewish girl Yvette Achach was born in Oran. In February 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy. She did not survive. ---

16 October 1931 | A French Jewish boy, Adolphe Frydman, was born in Paris. In June 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp:

16 October 1906 | A Pole, Stanisław Lipiński, was born in Płock. An engineer, officer of the Polish Army. In #Auschwitz from 3 February 1943. No. 99833 He perished in the camp on 7 July 1943. --- Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

16 October 1944 | 600 prisoners who were selected by SS doctors at the men's hospital of Auschwitz II-Birkenau (sector BIIf) were murdered in the gas chamber and crematorium III. A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III:

16 October 1908 | A Czech Jewish woman, Liselotta Weinfeldová, was born in Plzeň. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 19 October 1944. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ Podcast:

16 October 1943 | Raid of the Ghetto of Rome. 365 German security & police forces sealed off the area of the ghetto. 1,024 Jewish men, women, and children were arrested. Two days later they were deported to #Auschwitz. Only 16 of them survived the war.

16 October 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Klára Boda, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: