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28.11.1925| Serra Adler was born in Urspringen. She was among the German Jews deported from Würzburg to the Lublin district on 25.04.1942. Serra was eventually taken to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Sobib ór. She was just 16 when she was killed in the gas chamber.

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Urszula Tochman was only 13 when she was displaced from Tarnogród with her parents on 30.06.1943. She was deported to #Majdanek from the transit camp in Zwierzyniec & then taken to Germany for forced labor in Bavaria. She survived and returned to Poland in 1945. #WomenofMajdanek

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Jadwiga Ankiewicz was a teenager caught in the street round-up in Warsaw on 15.01.1943. The German soldiers took her to the Gestapo Pawiak prison. Two days later she was deported to the concentration camp in Lublin and registered as prisoner no. 5322. #WomenofMajdanek

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Bolesława Janiszek was arrested on 27.09.1942 in Warsaw. She was detained at the Gestapo Pawiak prison and subjected to numerous brutal interrogations. In January 1943 she was deported to #Majdanek and then evacuated to Ravensbrück. She survived. #WomenofMajdanek

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10.12.1926| Sara Goldbaum was born in Lublin. Together with her parents, Srul & Chaja, she was locked in the #Lublin ghetto: the first ghetto liquidated during operation ‘Reinhardt’. The Goldbaums were murdered in the German Nazi extermination camp in #Be łżec in spring of 1942.

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25.11.1924| Hella Weiss-Felenbaum was born in Lublin. In December 1942 she was transferred from the Staw-Nowosiółki labor camp to #Sobib ór. She worked in the sorting barrack & the camp garden. Hella escaped during the uprising on 14.10.1943, joined the partisans & survived WWII.

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Alina Brewda worked as a physician in the Wola hospital & as a gynaecologist in the Jewish hospital in Warsaw. She was deported to #Majdanek after the fall of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Alina worked in the camp infirmary & continued her goal of helping others. #WomenofMajdanek

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April 19, 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out. SS units who entered the ghetto area were met with Jewish resistance. Despite fierce determination and courage of the insurgents, they could not withstand the assaults of the well-trained regular troops. #HolocaustMemorialDay

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Jadwiga Wolska-Landowska was a 20-year-old Home Army solider when she was arrested by the Gestapo in November 1942. As a Polish political prisoner she was deported to #Majdanek from Radom on January 8, 1943. #WomenofMajdanek

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Irena Marszałek was deported to #Majdanek from the Gestapo prison in Radom on 08.01.1943. Detained as a political prisoner at field V she worked in the camp laundry. In April 1944 Irena was transferred to Ravensbrück & then to Neubrandenburg. She survived. #WomenofMajdanek

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Helena Pawluk née Błeszyńska worked for the Central Welfare Council – a charity that during WWII helped the prisoners of #Majdanek . When she learned that her family’s doctor & friend – a Polish Jew named Pryłucki – was detained in the camp, she helped him escape. #WomenofMajdanek

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11.12.1942| Irena Pełka was arrested by Gestapo in Warsaw & detained in Pawiak. In January 1943 she was deported to #Majdanek . Registered as prisoner no. 4655 she worked in the Gärtnerei kommando. In April 1944 Irena was transferred to Ravensbrück & then to Leipzig. She survived.

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Krystyna Pokorska was born in Lublin but eventually moved to Warsaw. Her husband was a member of the resistance and had to go into hiding. Gestapo agents could not find him so they arrested Krystyna instead. She was captured on 26.07.1942 & detained at Pawiak. #WomenofMajdanek

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06.11.1942|Several thousand Jews were deported from the ghetto in Piaski to the German Nazi death camp in #Sobib ór. Among them there was Kurt Ticho (Thomas) the only Czech Jewish survivor of Sobibór. He worked in the camp sorting facility & escaped during the prisoners’ uprising.

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Jadwiga Elżanowska was deported to #Majdanek from Pawiak on 17.01.1943. She spent 15 months in the camp as prisoner no. 5329 & worked in the camp laundry (Wäscherei) and gardening group (Gärtnerei). In April 1944 she was transferred to Ravensbrück. She survived. #WomenofMajdanek

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15.01.1943|Jadwiga Ankiewicz was arrested in an enormous round-up held in the streets of Warsaw & taken to the Gestapo Pawiak prison. Two days later she was deported to #Majdanek . She was just sixteen at that time.

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Eugenia Kucierzyńska was arrested on 17.09.1942 in Warsaw. She was detained at Daniłowiczowska St. & in Pawiak. On 17.01.1943 she was deported to #Majdanek . Eugenia worked in the camp infirmary. In April 1944 she was transferred to Ravensbrück. She survived. #WomenofMajdanek

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Alina Paradowska lived in Warsaw. She was only 18 when Gestapo arrested her in July 1942 as a suspect in elimination of the informer installed by the Germans within the Polish resistance. First detained at Pawiak, she was deported to #Majdanek in January 1943. #WomenofMajdanek

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Eugenia Piwińska was a Polish philology graduate & an activist of the Polish Workers’ Party. During WWII she was a liaison for the People’s Guard. Gestapo arrested her in September 1942 in Warsaw. Detained in Pawiak & then deported to #Majdanek in January 1943. #WomenofMajdanek

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Maria Bielicka-Szczepańska worked as a professional actress and opera singer in Warsaw. Maria was arrested as a resistance member on 19.08.1942 and sent to Pawiak. On 17.01.1943 she was deported to #Majdanek & worked in maintenance of the women’s infirmary. #WomenofMajdanek

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26.06.1943|The last prisoners of #Be łżec, tasked with dismantling the camp infrastructure, were deported to #Sobib ór As eyewitnesses they were to be gassed upon their arrival. Willing to die with dignity, they attacked the guards at the Sobibór unloading ramp and were all shot.

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11.05.1937| Lea Judith de la Penha was born. Together with her parents Judith & David she was sent to the #Westerbork transit camp and later to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Sobib ór. They were murdered in the gas chambers on 09.07.1943. Lea was just 6 years old.

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09.11.1942|Gestapo agents arrested Matylda Woliniewska as a resistance member in Warsaw. She was taken to Pawiak & deported to #Majdanek in January 1943. As prisoner no. 4718 she was detained at field V. Matylda worked in the sanitary column & as a nurse in the women’s infirmary.

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April 15, 1927, Tomasz Toivi Blatt, a prisoner and escapee from the German death camp in #Sobibor , was born. He was an active participant in the uprising and manged to escape from the camp. In 1959 he went to the USA, from where he repeatedly returned to Poland. He died in 2015.

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Wanda Ossowska was a courier of the Home Army high command & head of an underground liaisons unit. She was arrested by Gestapo in August 1942, detained at Pawiak, subjected to torture and numerous interrogations. In January 1943 Wanda was deported to #Majdanek . #WomenofMajdanek

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Bluma Shadur née Babic was a Polish Jew from Warsaw. She worked at a dyeworks & textiles factory at Miła St. She was deported to #Majdanek in May 1943 after the fall of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Bluma survived the preliminary selection to the gas chambers. #WomenofMajdanek

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08.12.1941|Otto Hett was deported to #Majdanek from Dachau. Registered as a German prisoner no. 15 he worked as a doctor & greatly helped other inmates. He remained at Majdanek until its final days in July 1944. Otto did not survive, the SS-men executed him en route to #Auschwitz

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15.03.1920|Mordechaj Goldfarb was born in Piaski near Lublin. First detained at the labour camps in Bełżec & Trawniki. In November 1942 he was deported to #Sobib ór. He worked as a graphic artist & painter. He escaped during the prisoner uprising, survived WWII & lived in Israel.

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30.01.1944| Jadwiga Ankiewicz was shot by the German soldiers in one of the streets of Warsaw. She was released from #Majdanek in May 1943 & despite her camp experiences she got engaged in the resistance as a Grey Ranks liaison. She survived Majdanek, but not the war. She was 17.

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Miriam Prajs-Fajgenbaum was deported to #Majdanek from the Warsaw ghetto in May 1943. In July 1943 she was transferred to #Auschwitz , and later also to Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen & Bergen Belsen. She survived all those camps and lived in Israel after WWII. #WomenofMajdanek

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Zofia Filakowska née Olszewska was arrested with her mother 13.01.1942 in Warsaw, as a resistance member. She was imprisoned at Pawiak for over a year & deported to #Majdanek in January 1943. She worked in the camp laundry, sewing workshop and gardening kommando. #WomenofMajdanek

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Krystyna Tarasiewicz was a Grey Ranks member arrested on 13.11.1942. She was deported to #Majdanek from Pawiak in January 1943. After 6 months as the camp prisoner no. 4702, she was transferred to Ravensbrück & then Velten. She survived & worked as a journalist. #WomenofMajdanek

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24.11.1904|Malka Ester Domb was born. Before WWII she lived with her family in Ulanów, Köln & Antwerp. They were deported from Belgium to the Lublin district of the General Government. Malka was eventually murdered in the gas chambers of the Bełżec German Nazi extermination camp.

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Zofia Chlewicka maintained a Home Amy letter drop point at her apartment in Warsaw. When it was discovered in mid-December 1942 she was arrested & taken to Pawiak. Zofia was deported to #Majdanek on 17.01.1943 & worked in the sanitary column of the camp infirmary #WomenofMajdanek

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10.01.1941|Romuald Sztaba was arrested by the Gestapo. Detained at the prison in Mysłowice, then #Auschwitz . In February 1942 he was transferred to #Majdanek . Registered as Polish inmate no. 16 he worked in the camp infirmary. He survived & became professor of paediatric surgery.

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Janina Latowicz was a Polish Jew deported to #Majdanek from the Warsaw ghetto in May 1943. She worked in camp maintenance, sewer system construction & groundworks. She was later transferred to the labour camps in Skarżysko-Kamienna & Częstochowa. She survived. #WomenofMajdanek

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01.05.1925| Zelda Metz née Kelberman was born in Siedliszcze. She was deported to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Sobib ór in December 1942. Selected for labour she worked at the camp laundry. She escaped during the prisoner uprising and then emigrated to the USA in 1946.

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17.02.1915| Maurycy Feuerstein was born. War interrupted his studies at the Higher School of Economics in Kraków. He worked in a carpenter’s workshop at the Kołomyja ghetto. In September 1942 he was deported to the German Nazi death camp in #Be łżec & murdered in the gas chamber.

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27.06.1942|Around 400 Slovak Jews were sent from #Majdanek to #Auschwitz , among them Walter Rosenberg (Rudolf Vrba). Together with Alfred Wetzler they escaped from Auschwitz in April 1944 and later created the Vrba-Wetzler report, one of the most important #Holocaust accounts.

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15.12.1942| Zofia Chlewicka was arrested in Warsaw for keeping a Home Amy letter drop point in her apartment. Imprisoned at Pawiak, tortured at the Gestapo headquarters in Szucha, she was deported to #Majdanek on 17.01.1943 & worked in the sanitary column of the camp infirmary.

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01.12.1941|Edward Karabanik was deported to #Majdanek from #Buchenwald . Registered as prisoner no. 47 he worked in the camp warehouse, kitchen & carpenters workshop. In April 1944 he was transferred to Gross-Rosen & then to Leitmeritz. He survived & worked in Poland as a teacher.

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27.09.1943|Polish prisoner of #Majdanek Wanda Albrecht wrote in a secret letter to her mother: It’s still dark. I can hear the gong – one, two, three. A new day begins. Apel! Can’t you hear the gong? A sleepy army of striped creatures marches out of the barracks to form the rows.

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20.02.1943|Kazimierz Kolbuszewski, literary historian, prof. at the Lwów and Wilno universities, perished at #Majdanek . He was arrested by the Gestapo for aiding Jews: he was giving shelter to a Jewish student & his Jewish housekeeper. He did not endure the hardships of the camp.

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Dora Minc née Cukierman was taken to #Majdanek in November 1942 from the Majdan Tatarski ghetto in Lublin. Registered as prisoner no. 1904 she then sorted the victims’ belongings that were shipped to Flugplatz from the extermination camps of ‘Einsatz Reinhardt’. #WomenofMajdanek

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13.03.1927|Sztanisław Szmajzner was born in Puławy. He was deported to the German death camp in #Sobib ór in May 1942 & selected for labor. He escaped during the prisoner uprising in October 1943, survived WWII & emigrated to Brazil in 1947, where he later identified Franz Stangl.

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22.02.1909|Alexander Pechersky was born in Kremenchuk (Ukraine). As a captured Red Army lieutenant of Jewish origin, he was deported to the German Nazi death camp in #Sobib ór in September 1943. Together with Lejba Felhendler he planned and led the prisoner uprising of 14.10.1943.

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On July 23, 1943, in the German Nazi death camp in #Sobib ór the Dutch #Olympic gold medalists in gymnastics were murdered: Anna Dresden-Polak, Lea Koot-Nordheim, Judikje Themans-Simons. Their coach Gerrit Kleerekoper was also killed that day. #Olympics Photo credit: Getty Images

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08.05.1940| Tadeusz Kosibowicz, a Polish doctor & head of the county hospital in Będzin, was arrested by the Gestapo. He was sheltering Jewish patients with the so-called “Aryan papers” at his ward. Through Dachau & Sachsenhausen he was deported to #Majdanek in November 1941.

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12.07.1944|Czesław Gaweł, prisoner no. 4199 escaped from #Majdanek . He stole a uniform from the head of the camp casino. Disguised as an SS officer he reached an unpatrolled section of the camp border, cut the barbed wire fence, left the uniform behind and went into the city.

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15.05.1922| #Sobib ór survivor Selma Engel née Wijnberg was born in Groningen, the Netherlands. She was deported to Sobibór from #Westerbork in May 1943. Selected for labour Selma worked in the camp sorting facilities. She escaped during the prisoner uprising in October 1943.

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23.02.1935|David (Deddie) Zak was born. He lived with his parents, Judith & Simon, at Uiterwaardenstraat 71 in Amsterdam. The Zaks were deported to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Sobib ór & murdered in the gas chambers on 11.06.1943. Deddie was just 8 years old. #Holocaust

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Halina Bartyńska-Korczak was a Polish Home Army soldier in Lviv. She was arrested by Gestapo on 02.07.1942 & detained in the Łącki prison. Then deported to #Majdanek & transferred to Ravensbrück in April 1944. Halina was evacuated to Sweden in 1945. She survived. #WomenofMajdanek

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10.11.1942| Prof. Mieczysław Michałowicz was arrested in Warsaw. He was first detained at the Gestapo Pawiak prison and deported to #Majdanek in March 1943. He worked as a doctor in the camp infirmary. While helping other inmates he contracted typhoid, which nearly cost his life.

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06.12.1912|Symcha Białowicz (Bialowitz) was born in Izbica. He arrived at the German death camp in #Sobib ór on 28.04.1943, 3 months after his brother Philip. They both escaped during the prisoner uprising in October & survived WWII. Symcha settled in Israel & passed away in 2014.

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12.12.1942|Tadeusz Ogrodowczyk was arrested by the Gestapo in Warsaw & detained in Pawiak. In January 1943 he was deported to #Majdanek & registered as prisoner no. 3693. Read his testimony about the conditions of that transport from Warsaw to Lublin here:

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As the #HolocaustRemembranceDay approaches #WeRemember Ludwig & Therese Neu, a German Jewish couple from Nuremberg. They emigrated to the Netherlands in December 1938 to avoid persecutions. They were deported from Westerbork to #Sobib ór & murdered in the gas chambers in May 1943.

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13.01.1942|Zofia Filakowska was arrested as a resistance member in Warsaw. She was detained at the Gestapo Pawiak prison for over a year & deported to #Majdanek . She worked in the camp laundry, sewing workshop & gardening kommando. In July 1943 she was transferred to Ravensbrück.

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03.11.1943| Operation “Erntefest” German police & SS functionaries executed 18,000 Jewish prisoners of #Majdanek & labour camps in #Lublin . Executions took place near the camp crematorium, later in Trawniki & the next day in Poniatowa. The total death toll reached 42,000 victims.

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05.11.1943| The SS began destroying the evidence of operation ‘Erntefest’. Soviet POWs detained at #Majdanek systematically uncovered the execution ditches and burned the bodies. The two-month concealment process was supervised by the chief of the camp crematoria Erich Muhsfeldt.

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23.07.1943| The Dutch gymnastics who won the gold medal at the 1928 summer Olympics in Amsterdam were murdered in the gas chambers of the #Sobib ór German Nazi extermination camp: Anna Dresden-Polak, Lea Koot-Nordheim, Judikje Themans-Simons, and their coach Gerrit Kleerekoper.

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23.01.1898| Franciszka Sandauer née Nelken was born in Husiatyn. In 1918 she fought defending Lviv as one of the Eaglets. In 1922 she graduated from the University of Lviv receiving a degree in medicine. She worked as a remarkable paediatrician and at a tuberculosis clinic.

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02.09.1942|6000-7000 Jews from Słomniki, Skały, Proszowice, Miechów, Olkusz and Kraków were deported to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Be łżec. Among those #Holocaust victims there was Hersz-Wolf Honigman with his wife Chana and their daughters: Etel & Sara.

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26.07.1942| Krystyna Pokorska was arrested by the Gestapo agents in Warsaw. First detained at the Pawiak prison, she was deported to #Majdanek in January 1943. She worked in the camp laundry. Krystyna survived.

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21.06.1943| Polish Jew Jerzy Pfeffer escaped from #Majdanek while working in a sawmill outside the camp. During the Warsaw ghetto rising the Pfeffers were hiding in bunker. Discovered on 30.04.1943 they were deported to KL Lublin. Jerzy lost his entire family in the gas chambers.

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16.04.1944|Two Polish prisoners: Feliksa Bidacha & Helena Żuk escaped from #Majdanek . They were aided by SS-Unterscharführer Otto Schultz. He hid them in laundry bags & drove them out of the camp. Read more about that unexpected help in our Escapes thread:

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05.05.1942| Alfred Kwiatkowski was arrested by the Gestapo agents in Rejowiec. He was first sent to the labour camp in Trawniki & several days later to #Majdanek . Alfred managed to escape while working in a group that reloaded cargo at the Lublin’s train station in August 1942.

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27.11.1942| Around 1600 Jews were deported from Buczacz (Buchach) to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Be łżec. They were all immediately killed in the gas chambers.

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25.08.1942|2600 Jews were deported from the ghetto in Bochnia to the death camp in #Be łżec. All deemed “unfit for transportation” were herded into a nearby forest at the Baczków settlement and executed. Among the deportees there was David Ring and the local Judenrat members.

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14.10.1943| Prisoner uprising in the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor took place. Thanks to the plan developed by Lejba (Leon) Felhendler & Alexander Pechersky the inmates secretly killed 9 SS-men and then stormed & breached the camp’s barbed wire fences.

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Help us commemorate the 80th anniversary of establishing the women's concentration camp at #Majdanek . The first females were deported to KL Lublin in October 1942 and placed at field V. Discover their stories through #WomenofMajdanek & our #Varia magazine:

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07.11.1942| Over 800 Jews from Rudki & Komarno near Lviv were deported to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Be łżec. They were all murdered in the gas chambers directly upon their arrival.

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30.12.1942|Blessed🇺🇦Priest Emilian Kowcz was arrested in Przemyślany for aiding, baptising & sheltering Jews. He was taken to the Gestapo prison at Łącki St. in Lviv from where he was deported to #Majdanek 8 months later. The parson of Majdanek perished in the camp in March 1944.

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30.11.1942| #Holocaust : Between 2,000 and 3,000 Jews were deported from the Drohobycz county to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Be łżec and murdered in the gas chambers. Among them there were most probably Majer & Rozalia Weiler with their son.

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13.04.1944|Evacuation transport with approx. 2600 prisoners was sent from #Majdanek to #Auschwitz . Among them there were infirmary patients & staff with the women’s hospital head dr Stefania Perzanowska. Read more about that event in our Evacuation thread:

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31.01.1943| Jan Zakrzewski was deported to #Majdanek from the Łącki St. prison in Lviv. Registered as a political prisoner he worked in the burial & construction groups and in the SS canteen. He escaped from the last evacuation column in Lublin on 23 July 1944 & survived the war.

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28.04.1943| Jadwiga Ankiewicz wrote in her Diary: A massive transport of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto arrived today. We found out from them that apparently a full-scale battle erupted and half of the quarter was now a smouldering ruin, buildings burning, basically a hell on Earth.

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26.07.1942|The Germans arrested Krystyna Pokorska in Warsaw for her husband’s resistance involvement. First detained at Pawiak, she was deported to #Majdanek in January 1943. She worked in the camp laundry. Krystyna was later transferred to Ravensbrück & Velten. She survived.

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01.08.1944|"W" Hour – 78 years ago at 5 pm the Warsaw Uprising began. We bow to all the insurgents’ sacrifice and their bravery. Today we want to evoke the memory of the former prisoners of #Majdanek who participated in the #WarsawRising1944

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05.12.1942| Around 3,000 Jews were deported from Przemyślany (Peremyshliany) to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Be łżec. The transport included the Jews who had been herded in from Gliniany (Hlyniany) several days earlier. They were all murdered in the gas chambers.

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17.05.1943| Jadwiga Ankiewicz was released from the camp. Some people caught in massive street round-ups in Warsaw and deported to #Majdanek in January 1943 were then reported by their employers as essential workers and released (also through bribing the SS & Gestapo staff).

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Zofia Pawłowska worked as a school deputy director in Kołomyja. Gestapo arrested her in November 1942 & sent her to the Łącki prison in Lviv. She was deported to #Majdanek in February 1943, worked at camp maintenance & was released on 10.08.1943. She survived. #WomenofMajdanek

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15.11.1942| A transport of around 2500 Jews departed from Tarnów to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Be łżec. All the deportees were murdered in the gas chambers directly upon their arrival.

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As the #HolocaustRemembranceDay approaches #WeRemember Gusta Allerhand from Kraków. She was deported on 28.10.1942 to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Be łżec and most probably murdered in the gas chambers immediately upon the transport’s arrival.

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17.07.1919|Eva-Brigitte Marum was born in Karlsruhe. In 1934 she emigrated from Germany to France. Caught in a street round-up in January 1943 she was later deported from Drancy to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Sobib ór. Eva was murdered in the gas chamber on 30.03.1943.

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15.12.1942|Zofia Chlewicka was arrested in Warsaw for having a Home Amy letter drop point in her apartment. Imprisoned at Pawiak, tortured at the Gestapo headquarters in Szucha, she was deported to #Majdanek on 17.01.1943 & worked in the sanitary column of the camp infirmary.

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18.07.1942|4,000 victims were deported from the ghetto in Rzeszów to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Be łżec. Over 1500 people deemed ‘unfit for transportation’ were instead herded into a forest outside the city and executed. All deportees were murdered in the gas chambers.

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26.06.1943|Last prisoners of #Be łżec who dismantled the camp infrastructure were deported to #Sobib ór to be gassed upon arrival. Willing to die with dignity, they attacked the guards at the unloading ramp & were all shot. The sole survivor Chaim Hirszman escaped from the train.

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16.08.1942|6500 Jews were deported from the Lviv ghetto to the German extermination camp in #Be łżec and murdered in the gas chambers. Among them there was Franciszka Sandauer, one of the 1918 defenders of Lviv known as Eaglets, a remarkable physician, chief paediatrician of Lviv.

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Tags with the names of children deported to the German Nazi death camp in Sobibór. Made probably at the request of parents, they were to facilitate the identification of children and their places of residence in case of separation during resettlements.

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12.07.1944|Czesław Gaweł, prisoner no. 4199 escaped from #Majdanek . He stole a uniform from the head of the camp casino. Disguised as an SS officer he reached an unpatrolled section of the camp border, cut the barbed wire fence, left the uniform behind and went into the city.

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03.03.1881| Kazimierz Kryński was born: doctor of medicine, Polish Army & Home Army soldier. Soviets arrested him on 13.08.1944. NKVD detained him on Majdanek grounds. Major Kryński was deported to Ryazan on August 23. He returned to Poland in 1947 & worked as an ophthalmologist.

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21.06.1942|Władysława Glinka-Kauf was arrested by the German functionaries in Warsaw. First detained at the Gestapo #Pawiak prison she was then deported to #Majdanek & registered as inmate no. 3062. Learn more about #WomenofMajdanek in our #Varia magazine:

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31.03.1943| Prof. Leon Pomirowski, teacher, lecturer, renowned literary critic, resistance member, died of typhoid fever at the camp infirmary. Even at #Majdanek he organised secret courses for the fellow prisoners. Learn more about education at the camp:

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On the 80th anniversary of creating the women’s section at #Majdanek we will focus on the female perspective on the camp history. Tours, lectures, testimonies, new volume of our #Varia magazine & a lot more for you to discover through our #WomenofMajdanek campaign this month.

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Jerzy Kwiatkowski wrote in his account: On November 13, they call me to the office. Hessel tells me that I’ve been assigned there and that my work begins at once. He tells me to bring my things from Block 15 at once. Hessel informs me that I’ll be in charge of the camp records.

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As the #HolocaustRemembranceDay approaches #WeRemember Juan Luria (Johannes Lorié), opera singer born in Warsaw. In 1937 he emigrated to the Netherlands. At the turn of 1942/1943 he was deported to Westerbork & then to #Sobib ór. He was murdered in the gas chambers on 21.05.1943.

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11.05.1943|Franciszek Jackiewicz was arrested by the Gestapo as a resistance member. First kept at the Lublin castle he was transferred to #Majdanek in August. As prisoner no. 6001 Franciszek was detained at fields III & IV. In April 1944 he was sent to #Mauthausen . He survived.

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On the eve of the 79th anniversary of the prisoner uprising in the SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor we commemorated the 180,000 victims of the death camp in Sobibór, and together with the representatives of Israel, Slovakia & Poland we recalled the courage of the Jewish insurgents.

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29.12.1943| Fr. Andrzej Osikowicz died at #Majdanek . He helped Jews by providing them with forged documents & giving shelter to Jewish children. In February 1943 he was transferred to KL Lublin from the Gestapo prison in Lviv. In 1995 he was declared #Righteous Among the Nations.

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23.02.1935|David (Deddie) Zak was born. He lived with his parents, Judith & Simon, at Uiterwaardenstraat 71 in Amsterdam. The Zaks were deported to the German Nazi extermination camp in #Sobib ór & murdered in the gas chambers on 11.06.1943. Deddie was just 8 years old. #Holocaust

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