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Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz The Memorial preserves two parts of the former German Nazi camp. Donate: donate.auschwitz.org
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The Auschwitz Memorial preserves two parts of the former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz: Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. www.auschwitz.org

Miejsce Pamięci Auschwitz dba o zachowanie dwóch części byłego niemieckiego nazistowskiego obozu koncentracyjnego i zagłady Auschwitz: Auschwitz I i Auschwitz II-Birkenau

To make a donation visit: http://donate.auschwitz.org

3 September 1925 | A Pole, Bronisław Pragłowski, was born in Ropczyce.In from 27 July 1942.No. 53302He perished in the...
03/09/2026

3 September 1925 | A Pole, Bronisław Pragłowski, was born in Ropczyce.

In from 27 July 1942.
No. 53302
He perished in the camp on 15 October 1942.

3 September 1944 | The last transport of Jews left camp in the German-occupied to the camp. 1,019 people were depo...
03/09/2026

3 September 1944 | The last transport of Jews left camp in the German-occupied to the camp. 1,019 people were deported, among them Anne Frank, her sister Margot and their parents Otto and Edith.

3 September 1919 | A Polish Jew, Sam Weinreich, was born in Łódź. His mother and several siblings died of hunger in the ...
03/09/2026

3 September 1919 | A Polish Jew, Sam Weinreich, was born in Łódź.

His mother and several siblings died of hunger in the ghetto created by the Germans in the town they renamed Litzmannstadt. In 1944, Sam was deported to . He survived.

3 September 1935 | An Italian Jewish girl, Sissel Vogelmann, was born in Torino.In January 1944 she was deported to to...
03/09/2026

3 September 1935 | An Italian Jewish girl, Sissel Vogelmann, was born in Torino.

In January 1944 she was deported to together with her parents Schulim and Anna. On 6 February she and her mother were murdered in a gas chamber. The father survived.

3 September 1941 | Following the information from the Gestapo about the transfer to Auschwitz of a large transport of So...
03/09/2026

3 September 1941 | Following the information from the Gestapo about the transfer to Auschwitz of a large transport of Soviet prisoners of war—officers and political commissars previously selected in POW camps by special Gestapo units—the SS camp authorities decided to kill them using Zyklon B gas in the basement of Block 11. This became the first large-scale ex*****on using this pesticide in this German N**i camp.

It was also decided to take this opportunity to kill bedridden prisoners, patients of the camp hospital. SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Siegfried Schwela ordered a selection in the hospital, during which about 250 Polish prisoners were chosen. After some time, orderlies were told to lead them—or carry some on stretchers—into the basement of Block 11. There they were crammed into several cells. About 600 Soviet POWs were then also driven into the cells.

The SS men threw Zyklon B into the cells, then closed and sealed the doors. The basement windows were covered with earth. The action took place late in the evening, after the camp command had announced a ban on prisoners leaving the blocks and moving around the camp (the so-called Lagersperre).

The following afternoon, after confirming that all the people were dead, all doors were opened and the window seals removed in order to ventilate the rooms from the remaining gas. After the evening roll call, another Lagersperre was declared.

At night, Rapportführer Gerhard Palitzsch summoned 20 prisoners from the penal company, all the orderlies from the hospital blocks, and two prisoners—Eugeniusz Obojski and Teofil Banasiuk—who worked as co**se carriers to the mortuary and transporters of co**ses to the crematorium. They were brought to the courtyard of Block 11. They had previously been told they were being assigned to “special work” and were forbidden under penalty of death from speaking to anyone about what they would see. At the same time, they were promised an increased food ration after completing the task.

The prisoners were divided into four groups. One group, wearing gas masks, carried the bodies to the ground floor; the second stripped them; the third carried them to the courtyard of Block 11; and the fourth loaded them onto handcarts. The bodies of the prisoners selected in the camp hospital were dressed in underwear, while the bodies of the POWs were in uniforms, in the pockets of which were found documents, family photographs, money, ci******es, and various small items. Camp dentists, under SS supervision, extracted dental gold from the mouths of the dead. The handcarts loaded with co**ses were then pulled to the crematorium by prisoners harnessed to them. This took two consecutive nights.

Watch a short video about Block 11 where this ex*****on took place: https://youtu.be/3hjDCsqgGY0

After this mass ex*****on, the SS decided to create the first permanent gas chamber of Auschwitz in the morgue by the crematorium of the camp. Learn about this building: https://youtu.be/wZmBSRVYLoE

03/09/2026

3 September 1912 | A German Sinti woman, Rosa Groß, was born in Bochum.

In (Gypsy camp) in II-Birkenau from 12 March 1943.
No. Z-2459
She perished in the camp on 18 July 1943.

3 September 1927 | French Jewish girl, Suzanne Buch, was born in Paris.She was deported to from Pithiviers on 7 August...
03/09/2026

3 September 1927 | French Jewish girl, Suzanne Buch, was born in Paris.

She was deported to from Pithiviers on 7 August 1942. She did not survive.

3 September 1909 | A Czech Jewish woman, Truda Broková, was born in Prague.She was deported to from ghetto on 6 Octo...
03/09/2026

3 September 1909 | A Czech Jewish woman, Truda Broková, was born in Prague.

She was deported to from ghetto on 6 October 1944. She did not survive.

3 September 1897 | A German Jewish woman, Hedwig Juliusburger, was born in Allenstein (Olsztyn). On 26 February 1943 she...
02/09/2026

3 September 1897 | A German Jewish woman, Hedwig Juliusburger, was born in Allenstein (Olsztyn).

On 26 February 1943 she was deported to from Berlin with her husband Alfred and son Klaus. They did not survive. The other son Gert perished in Auschwitz on 12 June 1944.

2 September 1924 | Polish Jew, Jozef Fidelman, was born in Warsaw. He emigrated to France.He was deported to from Dran...
02/09/2026

2 September 1924 | Polish Jew, Jozef Fidelman, was born in Warsaw. He emigrated to France.

He was deported to from Drancy on 24 July 1942. He did not survive.

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