11 May 1911 | Jewish man of Polish origin, Josef Grabowski, was born in Poznan. A cantor. He moved to Gleiwitz in Germany. After November Pogrom in 1938, he emigrated to Norway and became a cantor in Trondheim.

In #Auschwitz from 3 March 1943
No. 105359
He did not survive.

11 May 1939 | A French Jewish boy, Alain Kartouzou, was born in Constantine in #Algeria.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 30 March 1944 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 472 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

11 May 1914 | A Ukrainian, Marko Hwedorenko, was born.

In #Auschwitz from 17 November 1942
No. 75772
Shot in the camp on 6 January 1943.

11 May 1903 | A French Jew, Léon Mozes, was born in Paris.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 30 June 1944. He did not survive.

11 May 1908 | A Polish woman, Maria Mikinka, was born. A tailor.

In #Auschwitz from 15 January 1943.
No. 29228
She perished in the camp on 5 March 1943.

11 May 1907 | A Czech Jewish woman, Josefina Hellerová, was born in Miroslav.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt Ghetto on 23 January 1943 together with her husband Walter. They did not survive.

11 May 1934 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Györgyi Einhorn, was born.

In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

12 May 1901 | A Polish Jew, Moses Anger, was born in Radomyśl Wielki. A worker.

In #Auschwitz from 24 February 1942.
No. 25186
He perished in the camp on 3 march 1942.

12 May 1928 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Max van den Berg, was born in Rotterdam.

In August 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

12 May 1884 | A German Jewish woman, Minna Wolff, was born in Gießen.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Berlin in October 1943. She did not survive.

12 May 1917 | A Jewish woman, Suzanne Feldmann, was born. A stenographer. During the war she lived in France.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 2 September 1943. She did not survive.

12 May 1942 | 56 prisoners were released from the camp: 34 Poles, 18 Czechs, 2 Dutch, and 2 Germans. The Dutch men were Josef Janssen (nr 23610) and Johann Giesen (nr 23611) [both in the pictures].

Read more about releases from Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/life-in-the-camp/releases-from-the-camp/

12 May 1914 | A Czech Roma, Isidor Holomek, was born in Kněžpole.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 19 March 1943.
No. Z-4529
He perished in the camp on 12 June 1943.

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Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water
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12 May 1894 | A Polish Jew, Samuel Grünhut, was born in Tarnów. A merchant.

In #Auschwitz from 24 February 1942.
No. 25208
He died of suicide in the bunker of Block 11 on 2 March 1942.

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9 May 1872 | A Czech Jew, Richard Basch, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive.

9 May 1939 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Mihaj (or Mikaj) Schön, was born.

In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

9 May 1910 | A Polish man, Władysław Kochanek, was born in Bochnia. Teacher, reserve lieutenant of the 2nd Podhale Rifle Regiment.

In #Auschwitz from 20 June 1940.
No. 890
In March 1943, transferred to KL Buchenwald. He perished in the spring of 1945.