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23/11/2023

It was worst in winter...
The rhythm of the day at Auschwitz camp was set by the camp gong, which was a piece of rail hanging from a pole.
Every day at 4:30 a.m. the Lagerältester (camp elder), would come up and tap it with a baton to wake the prisoners. Thousands of people had to get up immediately, because for any lateness, even minimal, the blockmaster would beat the prisoners with a baton.
Everyone who was woken by the camp gong was aware from the first moments of the new day that this day could be his last....
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29/10/2023

One of the darkest figures in World War II history was Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death." Mengele, a N**i doctor at Auschwitz-Birkenau, conducted cruel experiments on innocent prisoners.
He was particularly "fond" of experimenting on children and twins.

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05/12/2022

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17/11/2022

One of the most famous escapes from Auschwitz took place on 24 June 1944.
Mala Zimetbaum and Edward Galiński took part in it.
Edek met Mala when he was working in the women's camp as an installer. Immediately, a deep feeling grew between them. On the day of their escape, Mala put on the clothes she had prepared in advance, while Edek put on his SS uniform. To his belt he attached a holster with a pistol containing two cartridges. The disguise was given to an acquaintance by SS man Lubusch. The two of them crossed the line of guard posts, showing a forged SS pass. For almost two weeks they managed to move towards Slovakia, but finally on 7 July 1944, in the Żywiec Beskid, they came across a German patrol who recognised them as fugitives and sent them back to the camp. There they were sentenced to death, and the sentences were carried out on 22 August 1944.

A remarkable memento of Mala and Edek is kept at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. These are two locks of their hair. They are wrapped in paper printed in German. On the edge of the paper an inscription in pencil reads: "Mally Zimetbaum 19880, Edward Galinski 531".

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Photo: Mala Zimetbaum and Edward Galiński, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

14/11/2022

On 11 November 1941, in the first ex*****on in front of the Ex*****on Wall at Auschwitz, the Germans shot 151 Polish prisoners. In total, at least several thousand people, mostly Poles, were executed at this site.

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Photos: Ex*****on Wall at Auschwitz, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

03/11/2022

Oskar Schindler was a German entrepreneur who saved 1,200 Jewish forced workers from extermination in the N**i camps.
Schindler employed Jews at the taken over Enamelware and Tinware Factory in Krakow, which he renamed Deutsche Emaillewarenfabrik. After the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, he bought them out from the commandant of the concentration camp in Krakow's Plaszow.
Schindler's story was filmed by Steven Spielberg in the movie Schindler's List, which won 12 Academy Awards.
In 1993, the Yad Vashem Institute honoured Oscar Schindler with the title 'Righteous Among the Nations'.

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Photo: Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory - Museum of Krakow, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

31/10/2022

The image of thousands of prisoners' shoes is a reminder of the fragility of life at Auschwitz - Birkenau. In many cases the piles of shoes are one of the few lasting traces of the hundreds of thousands of people murdered in this death camp....

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29/10/2022

Konzentrationslager (KL) Auschwitz was set up in Oświęcim (which Germans renamed Auschwitz) in the spring of 1940. It was the first concentration camp in occupied Polish territory. For almost two years, the overwhelming majority of the prisoners there were Poles and Polish Jews (in the constantly rising numbers of arriving transports).
The first killing center set up in occupied Polish lands was the camp at Chełmno on the Ner. In December 1941 Germans started killing there Jews brought from the ghettos. Three more camps, somewhat larger, were opened at Bełżec, Sobibor and Treblinka (that was known as “Aktion Reinhard”) between March and July 1942.

In Auschwitz, the murdering of prisoners in gas chambers began even earlier - at the end of June 1941, when 575 sick and disabled prisoners were sent to their deaths at the euthanasia center.

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24/10/2022

One of the worst physical punishments at Auschwitz was the so-called "post" - a punishment usually carried out in the courtyard at block 11 or in the attic of this block.
The prisoner was tied at the back and was hung on a hook so that he could not touch the ground with his feet. He hung like this for several hours, sometimes with short breaks. Prisoners subjected to this punishment lost consciousness due to excruciating pain, and the punishment often resulted in the severing of arm tendons, which meant that such a prisoner could not move his arms and was sent to the gas chamber as unfit for work.

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20/10/2022

Meet the most tragic history of the 20th century.
Visit Auschwitz, the largest German N**i concentration and extermination centers camp, where died at least 1.1 million men, women and children of many nationalities.

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12/10/2022

The rhythm of the day at Auschwitz camp was set by the camp gong, which was a piece of rail hanging from a pole.
Every day at 4:30 a.m. the Lagerältester (camp elder), would come up and tap it with a baton to wake the prisoners. Thousands of people had to get up immediately, because for any lateness, even minimal, the blockmaster would beat the prisoners with a baton.
Everyone who was woken by the camp gong was aware from the first moments of the new day that this day could be his last....

Photos: public domain, Pixabay
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26/09/2022

On October 14, 1943, an uprising and the largest mass escape of prisoners during World War II took place at the German N**i death camp in Sobibor, Poland.
Preparations lasted for several months until Oct. 14, 1943, when the conspirators killed twelve German SS men and gave the signal to escape. Of the approximately 500-600 Jews who were in the camp that day, almost half escaped through the camp fence into the nearby forest.
About 40-70 escapees managed to survive the entire war.

The Sobibor camp was one of three extermination centers set up by the Germans as part of Operation Reinhardt. It was established in May 1942, and the extermination of Jews was carried out there. About 170-180,000 people died in the camp.

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Sobibor extermination camp view, summer 1943, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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24/09/2022

Among the Auschwitz prisoners were many pre-war athletes, people who were Olympians, champions in their respective countries.
One of them was Tadeusz Pietrzykowski alias "Teddy," a pre-war Warsaw boxer who was deported to Auschwitz in the first transport of Polish political prisoners (camp number 77) in June 1940.
In March 1941, Pietrzykowski had a victorious fight with German capo Walter Dunning, a pre-war German middleweight vice champion.
During his nearly three years in Auschwitz, the fighter fought more than 40 fights and was unmatched by any other prisoner.

Picture: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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22/09/2022

On September 22, 1940, Captain Witold Pilecki was sent to Auschwitz, where he voluntarily allowed himself to be caught by the Germans in order to gain information about the camp and organize a resistance movement there. He was registered as Tomasz Serafiński (No. 4859).
At Auschwitz, Rt. Pilecki formed the Union of Military Organizations and compiled the first reports on the genocide at Auschwitz, sent to the West.

On the night of April 26-27, 1943, he escaped from Auschwitz, and then started underground activity in the Home Army. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising, and after the surrender was in the Lamsdorf and Murnau prisoner-of-war camps. After liberating the camp, he joined the Second Polish Corps in Italy. On orders from General Anders in 1945, he returned to Poland, where he was arrested in May 1947 on charges of carrying out activities for the II Corps. After a brutal investigation and a rigged trial, he was sentenced to death and murdered on May 25, 1948.

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21/09/2022

In Auschwitz, the camp orchestra with seven musicians first played in early January 1941, but its ensemble grew very quickly. At Auschwitz in May 1942, a 71-member symphonic band was formed from a brass band of about a hundred inmates, which included the best musicians in Europe - mainly Poles, but also Czechs, Russians, Jews and Germans. Later, more orchestras were also formed in the men's and women's camps at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, as well as in some sub-camps.
The main task of the camp orchestras was to play military marches, to the beat of which the prisoners left for work and returned to the camp. But music was also played during roll calls, ex*****ons and punishments, intensifying the physical and mental suffering inflicted on prisoners.
In addition to playing marches during prisoners' exits and returns, the orchestra also gave concerts for the SS crew.
The orchestra at Auschwitz operated almost until the end of the camp's operation.

Illustration: Neuengamme orchestra plays at an ex*****on, Hans Peter Sørensen, drawing from 1947.

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17/09/2022

On September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland. In this way, Stalin fulfilled a secret agreement with Hi**er from August of that year, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which provided for a joint aggression against Poland.
Its stated purpose was to occupy and divide territory od Poland and to effectively liquidate the Polish state. Thus, the Third Reich and the USSR in a little more than 2 weeks launched World War II, the deadliest war in the history of mankind.

The N**is built 1,634 concentration camps and more than 900 labor camps and so-called transit camps during World War II. The first German concentration camps were built long before the outbreak of World War II. Just seven weeks after Adolf Hi**er became chancellor in January 1933, SS chief Heinrich Himmler opened the first concentration camp in Dachau, Bavaria,

In Russia, concentration and labor camps began to be established as early as 1918, so long before the rise of N**ism. The entire system of concentration camps in the Soviet Union was called the GULAG, and the camps themselves were called gulags. Throughout the USSR's existence, some 30,000 gulags were established....

Photo: Moskau, Stalin und Ribbentrop im Kreml, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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14/09/2022

Did you know that assassinations of Adolf Hi**er were organized at least 42 times and none of them succeeded?
That's why Hi**er considered himself the chosen one of providence.
From the beginning of Hi**er's struggle for power until the end of the Third Reich, at least twenty of these assassinations were likely to succeed. One of the most famous assassinations known as "Operation Valkyrie" took place on July 20, 1944 by Wehrmacht officers led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who personally placed a bomb in the meeting room at the Führer's "Wolf's Lair" quarters near Rastenburg (now Kętrzyn) in East Prussia (now Poland).
After placing a bomb next to the table at which Hi**er was standing, von Stauffenberg left the room and immediately returned to Berlin to lead the putsch. Hi**er, however, unexpectedly survived the blast, and the conspirators failed to spark a nationwide German uprising. The leaders of the conspiracy: Claus von Stauffenberg, Friedrich Olbricht, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim and Stauffenberg's adjutant Werner von Haeften were arrested and executed by firing squad on the night of July 20-21, and Hi**er launched a plot that ended with the ex*****on of nearly five thousand opponents of N**ism. Had this assassination succeeded, it could have saved many lives.
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01/09/2022

On 1 September 1939 began World War II - the most terrible and cruellest war in the history of humanity.
The Third Reich was the scene of an unprecedented act of murder of entire peoples using industrial methods (concentration camps). The extermination of the Jews (Holocaust / Shoah) took place on the territory of the Third Reich, its allies and the countries occupied by it.
According to various estimates, between 50 and 78 million people died as a result of World War II, including approximately 6 million Polish citizens:
- about 3 million Polish Jews
- approximately 2 million Poles
- approximately 1 million Polish citizens of other nationalities, including Ukrainians, Byelorussians, Roma, Lithuanians.

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