11 January 1901 | Polish woman Honorata Urzyczak was born in Warsaw. A teacher. She was imprisoned in #Auschwitz on 30 July 1942. No. 13163 Evacuated to Bergen-Belsen and liberated there. --- Women at Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ 🎧 Podcast:

11 January 1903 | Czech Jewish woman Ilse Weber was born in Vítkovice. A writer. She lived in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 4 October 1944. On 6 October 1944 murdered in a gas chamber. Her poems in German: https://gedichte.xbib.de/gedicht_Weber%2C+Ilse.htm --- ▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III:

11 January 1942 | Dutch Jewish boy Simon Benjamins was born in Groningen. In 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz together with his mother Branca, brother Marcus and sister Lea. They were all murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau:

11 January 1902 | Czech Emanuel Balek was born in Prague. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 20 May 1942. No. 35819 He perished in the camp on 14 August 1942. --- 🎧 A podcast about registration photos:

11 January 1894 | Polish Jew Moses Berkensztat was born in the village of Prusicko. Shoemaker. In #Auschwitz from 25 October 1941. No. 22210 He perished in the camp three days later. --- 🎧 Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp:

11 January 1914 | Irish Jewish woman of Czech origin Esther (Ettie) Steinberg was born. In Dublin, she married Vogtjeck Gluck & moved first to Antwerp & then to Paris. On 2 September 1942, the couple was deported to Auschwitz with their son Léon. None of them survived. --- ▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz:

11 January 1939 | Czech Jewish girl Věra Vohryzková was born (right). She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943 with her mother Štěpánka and brother Jiří. None of them survived. --- The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz & the so-called family camp created in Birkenau by the SS:

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The history of the deportation of Jews from the ghetto in Theresienstadt to the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau

10 January 1935 | Hungarian Jewish boy István Politzer was born in Pusztakovacsi. In July 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection. --- ▶ Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz:

10 January 1917 | Pole Włodzimierz Kurowski was born in Lubartów. A tobacco grower. In #Auschwitz from 30 July 1941. No. 19452 He perished in the camp on 3 January 1942. --- 🎧 A podcast about registration photos:

10 January 1921 | Polish Jewish woman Ester Graubart was born in Będzin. In 1943 she was deported from the ghetto in Bedzin to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ 🎧 Podcast: