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The history of deportations of Jews from Theresienstadt Ghetto to Auschwitz II-Birkenau & the family camp created in the camp by the SS is told in our online exhibition: artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/z-ge...
From Ghetto in Theresienstadt to Auschwitz II-Birkenau - Google Arts & Culture
The history of the deportation of Jews from the ghetto in Theresienstadt to the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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July 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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10-12 July 1944 | After selections made by SS authorities at the liquidated BIIb sector of #Auschwitz II-Birkenau (a family camp for Jews deported from #Theresienstadt ghetto) ca. 3,000 people were transferred to other camps & the remaining ca. 7,000 were killed in gas chambers.
July 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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6 May 1933 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Debora Bobbe, was born in The Hague.

In October 1942 she was deported from Westerbork to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
May 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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21 March 1908 | A Frenchman, George Autret, was born in Paris.

In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1942.
No. 45186
Evacuated to Mauthausen in 1945. Liberated in Gusen II camp on 5 May 1945.
March 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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21 March 1943 | Three Roma babies were born in Auschwitz II-Birkenau: August Gross (Z-4901), Rigo Heilig (Z-4902) & Franziska Steinbach (Z-1823). They shared the tragic fate of 387 Roma children born in the camp.

A lesson about Sinti & Roma in Auschwitz: bit.ly/4a4bsTg
March 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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19 March 1874 | Jewish woman, Thora Mendelsohn (nee Paltiel) was born in Malmö. She moved to Norway in 1894.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 March 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
March 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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19 March 1886 | A Czech Jewish woman, Klára Bergmannová, was born in České Budějovice.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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19 March 1910 | A Pole, Kazimierz Lewiński, was born in Brody. An accountant.

In #Auschwitz from 25 April 1942.
Camp no. 33145
He was shot on 25 May 1942.
March 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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16 March 1895 | Jewish man, Bernhard Rosenberg, was born in Minsk. In 1918 he emigrated to Norway. A tailor.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 March 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
March 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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15 March 1938 | A Dutch Jew, Leo Samuel Drukker, was born in Amsterdam.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 5 March 1944 in a transport of 732 Jews from Westerbork. He was among the 477 people murdered after selection in a gas chamber together with his mother Mietje and father Joseph.
March 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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15 March 1910 | A Pole, Karol Siwek, was born in Dubna. A painter, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, student of Prof. W. Jarocki.

In #Auschwitz 25 April 1942.
No. 33171
He was shot on 27 May 1942.
March 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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14 March 1936 | A Jewish boy Pal Szenes was born in Subotica (Szabadka).

In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
March 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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On this day in 1911, a Slovakian Jewish man was born. On the 18 May 1942 he was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto with his wife and on the 25 May 1942 to the Lublin Ghetto. Both perished in the Shoah, date and location unknown. His name was Ladislav Hegedus
March 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Vera Szasz
(b August 13, 1940) - Budapest, Hungary
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Vera, the only child of Nanci (LeBlanc) and Miklos Szasz, was a three year-old child when the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944. She lived in the large, cosmopolitan city of Budapest, where her father was a businessman.
March 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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On this day in 1894, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 16 Oct 1941 she was deported to the Łódź Ghetto where she perished on the 3 Jan 1943. Her name was Irma Hofheimer
March 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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On this day in 1910, a Czech Jewish man was born. On the 16 Jul 1942 he was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto and on the 26 Oct 1942 to Auschwitz where he perished. His name was Josef Fanta

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March 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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On this day in 1943, a 46 year old German Jewish woman was deported to Auschwitz with her husband. It is most probable that they were murdered in the gas chamber on arrival. Her name was Hertha Friedländer

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March 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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The Anschluss: Germany occupies Austria
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On the morning of 12 March 1938, the German army invaded Austria. No one stopped it. Hitler arrived later that day. He visited his place of birth and his parents’ grave.
March 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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12 March 1912 | Polish Jewish woman Ala Gertner was born in Będzin. She was incarcerated in #Auschwitz in August 1943. She worked in „Union” munition factory from where together with other women she smuggle gunpowder to Sonderkommando resistance. She was hanged on 6 January 1945.
March 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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11 March 1914 | A Romanian Jewish woman, Cornelia Sajovics, was born in Prundu Bârgăului.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz from the Kolozsvar ghetto. She did not survive.
March 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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11 March 1892 | A Pole, Tadeusz Tański, was born. An engineer & designer of the 1st Polish serially-built car, the CWS T-1.

In #Auschwitz from 1 February 1941.
No. 9455
He perished in the camp on 23 March 1941.
March 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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1/n Richard Stern enlisted in the German Army as a teenager and was awarded the prestigious Iron Cross for his distinguished service during World War I. Later, Hitler would send the Hanseatic Cross to Stern for his war merit not realizing Stern was a Jew.
March 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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9 March 1940 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Maurice Bromet, was born in Amsterdam.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 September 1943 in a transport of 979 Jews deported from Westerbork. He was among the 388 people murdered in a gas chamber immediately after selection.
March 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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9 March 1931 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Judith Rosenberg, was born in Abaujszanto.

In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
March 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM