List of prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp

The list of inmates in the Auschwitz concentration camp includes known inmates and victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz , which included the Auschwitz I (main camp) , Auschwitz II (Birkenau) , Auschwitz III (Monowitz) and a large number of subcamps . Between 1940 and January 1945, when the camp was evacuated, just over 400,000 registered prisoners were interned in Auschwitz and its sub-camps, more than half of whom died due to the inhumane camp conditions. Two thirds of the registered inmates were men and one third were women. The number of victims in the Auschwitz concentration camps is over 1,000,000, the vast majority of them unregistered Jewish prisoners who were murdered in the gas chambers soon after arriving at the camp . Many publicly known persons were among the internees and victims of the Holocaust.

Photographs of registered inmates in concentration camp inmate clothing . Almost 40,000 of these recordings have been preserved

The first Auschwitz prisoners

On 20 May 1940, the first 30 prisoners were so-called professional criminals , accompanied by the roll call officer Gerhard Palitzsch from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the Auschwitz concentration camp transferred, where she became functionary prisoners were used. Among them was inmate number 1, Bruno Brodniewicz (from Posen, formerly residing in Berlin), who became the first camp elder in the main camp. Brodniewicz received the name "Czarna smierc" (translated: "Black Death") in Auschwitz because of his brutal behavior; he is said to have been responsible for the deaths of fellow prisoners there. After the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945, Brodniewicz was first transferred to the subcamp B 12 Wolffsleben of the Mittelbau concentration camp , where he again became a camp elder . He was most recently imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , where he and other prison functionaries were probably lynched by fellow inmates after the camp was liberated in April 1945 . In addition, among the first 30 Auschwitz inmates were Otto Küsel (prisoner in labor with prisoner number 2), Hans Bock (first camp elder in the prisoner infirmary of the main camp with prisoner number 5), Bernhard Bonitz (block elder and chief chaplain in the main camp prisoner number 6, later accused during the 3rd Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial ), Arno Böhm (camp elder in the Theresienstadt family camp , in Auschwitz-Birkenau with prisoner number 8) and Erich Grönke (Kapo in the leather factory with prisoner number 11), who after his Released from Auschwitz concentration camp, he became head of the leather factory in Auschwitz concentration camp and was friends with concentration camp commandant Rudolf Höß .

On June 14, 1940, another 728 Polish prisoners arrived from Tarnów Prison and were assigned prisoner numbers 31 to 758. From July, Kazimierz Smoleń (prisoner no. 1327) was in the camp, who later became the head of the concentration camp memorial.

Function prisoners

Functional prisoners were those prisoners who were appointed by the SS as overseers, for example during work assignments. Without them, the SS could have organized the camp much less effectively. Depending on the area and work detail, their positions were differently influential. They were always in a difficult position in the hierarchy between the concentration camp prisoners and the SS camp personnel. Other prison functionaries:

• Lucie Adelsberger (1895–1971), German pediatrician and internist, worked as a prisoner doctor in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp,
• Emil Bednarek (1907-2001), German-Polish block elder in the main camp and in Birkenau, later indicted in the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial,
• Ernst Burger (1915–1944), Austrian leader of the camp resistance in the main camp of Auschwitz, block clerk in Block 4 of the main camp,
• Franz Danisch (1902–1945), German camp elder in Auschwitz-Birkenau (prisoner number 11.182),
• Hermann Diamanski (1909–1976), German camp elder in the so-called " Gypsy camp Auschwitz ",
• Heinrich Dürmayer (1905–2000), Austrian and last camp elder in the main camp of Auschwitz,
• Rudolf Friemel (1907–1944), Austrian prisoner functionary in the camp SS's driver service,
• Adélaïde Hautval (1906–1988), French psychiatrist and inmate doctor in Auschwitz concentration camp,
• Paul Kozwara , camp elder in Monowitz as successor to Windeck,
• Werner Krumme (1909–1972), German prisoner functionary in prisoner labor deployment,
• Ella Lingens-Reiner (1908–2002), Austrian prisoner doctor in Auschwitz concentration camp,
• Ilse Lothe (1914–?), German, Kapo in Auschwitz-Birkenau, later acquitted in the Bergen-Belsen trial,
• Hermann Langbein (1912–1995), Austrian prisoner clerk for Eduard Wirths SS medical officer . He later worked as a historian.
• Hilde Lohbauer (1918–?) Was a German prison functionary in Auschwitz-Birkenau and in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , later sentenced to ten years in prison in the Bergen-Belsen trial ,
• Orli Reichert-Wald (1914–1962), German, called Engel von Auschwitz, camp elder in the prisoner infirmary,
• Ignatz Schlomowicz (1918–?), Austrian, including Kapo in Monowitz, later acquitted in the Bergen-Belsen trial,
• Stanisława Starostka (1917–1946), Polish citizen, including camp elder in Auschwitz-Birkenau, later sentenced to ten years in prison in the Bergen-Belsen trial ,
• Robert Waitz (1900–1978), French professor of medicine, resistance fighter and inmate doctor
• Josef Windeck (1903–1977), German, first camp elder in Monowitz,
• Ludwig Wörl (1906–1967), German, a. a. Camp elder in the main camp of Auschwitz.
• Otto Wolken (1903–1975), Austrian prisoner doctor in Auschwitz-Birkenau, liberated on January 27, 1945.
• Ben Baumann (1908–1993), German prisoner doctor in Auschwitz concentration camp.

special command unit

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp Special Command , whose members were forced by the SS to help prepare the gassing of the deportees and to cremate the fatalities later, included the following prisoners at various times:

• Milton Buki (1909–1988),
• Shlomo Dragon (1922–2001), Polish tailor of Jewish origin who emigrated to Israel after the Shoah,
• Old fine silver (1911–1987),
• Dario Gabbai
• Salmen Gradowski,
• Lejb Longfoot,
• Salmen Lewenthal,
• Henryk Mandelbaum (1922–2008), Pole of Jewish origin, he survived and answered questions as an important contemporary witness,
• Filip Müller (1922–2013), Slovak of Jewish origin,
• Miklós Nyiszli (1901–1956), doctor, Hungarian pathologist,
• David Olère (1902–1985), Polish painter, he survived and made detailed drawings of the gas chambers,
• Dov Paisikovic (1924–1988),
• Isaak Paisikovic (around 1883–1945), father of Dov Paisikovic,
• Jakow Silberberg,
• Henryk Tauber,
• Chaim Wolnerman,
• Shlomo Venezia (1923–2012), Italian of Jewish origin, who later published about his experiences in Auschwitz,
• Jeheszwa Wygodzki.

Politician

• Hermann Axen (1916–1992), German communist, later member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED
• Władysław Bartoszewski (1922–2015), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland,
• Bruno Baum (1910–1971), German communist and later a functionary of the SED,
• Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911–1989), later Polish Prime Minister
• Robert Danneberg (1885–1942), social democratic politician from Austria, perished in Auschwitz,
• Heinrich Fulda (1860–1943), social democratic politician from Germany, perished in Auschwitz,
• Franz Herbert (1885–1945), German farmer and BVP politician ,
• Benedikt Kautsky (1894–1960), Austrian economist and financial expert,
• Wieslaw Kielar (1919–1990), Polish political prisoner, he came in the first regular prisoner transport first to Auschwitz I, later to Auschwitz-Birkenau and stayed as a prisoner in the camp for almost five years (prisoner number 290),
• Abraham Léon (1918–1944), communist and Zionist Belgian of Jewish origin,
• Jan Mosdorf (1904–1943), Polish politician and philosopher , murdered in Auschwitz,
• Otto Josef Schlein (1895–1944), German doctor and communist of the Jewish faith, perished in Auschwitz,
• Simone Veil (1927–2017), Minister of Health of France and President of the European Parliament. As a Jew, she was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen for a total of 13 months.

athlete

• Estella Agsteribbe (1909–1943), Dutch Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics of Jewish descent and victim of the Holocaust,
• Salamo Arouch (1923–2009), Greek-Israeli boxer and survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp,
• Bronisław Czech (1908–1944), Polish champion in various skiing disciplines, perished in Auschwitz (prisoner no. 349),
• Antoni Czortek (1915-2003), Polish boxing champion and survivor of the Holocaust,
• Aloizy Ehrlich (1914–1992), table tennis player, three times vice world champion in singles and survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp,
• Izydor Gąsienica-Łuszczek (1912–1992), Polish Nordic skier and survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp (prisoner no. 783),
• Harry Haft (1925–2007), professional boxer and survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp,
• Julius Hirsch (1892–1943), football player, came to Auschwitz on March 1, 1943 (exact date of death unknown),
• Heinz Levy (1904–1944), Dutch boxer, Olympic participant and victim of the Holocaust,
• Victor Perez (1911–1945), Tunisian professional boxer of Jewish descent and victim of the Holocaust,
• Tadeusz Pietrzykowski (1917–1991), Polish soldier, boxer and survivor of the Holocaust,
• Jacko Razon (1921–1997), Greek-Israeli boxer and survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp,
• Leen Sanders (1908–1992), Dutch professional boxer of Jewish descent and survivor of the Holocaust.

Writers and journalists

• Jean Améry (1912–1978), Austrian writer, survivor of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen ,
• Jerzy Bielecki (1921–2011), Polish author,
• Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951), Polish writer, committed suicide in 1951 suicide ,
• Cordelia Edvardson (1929–2012), writer and journalist, daughter of the author Elisabeth Langgässer , lived in Sweden and Israel after 1945,
• Lucille Eichengreen (1925–2020), survivor of the Holocaust, contemporary witness and author,
• Yehiel Feiner (1909-2001), Polish writer of Jewish descent and Holocaust survivor,
• Hédi Fried (* 1924), Romanian-Swedish writer and psychologist,
• Hermann Haber (1885–1942), German painter and caricaturist, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Georg Hermann (1871–1943), German writer of Jewish origin,
• Tadeusz Hołuj (1916–1985), Polish writer and prison officer in the camp resistance,
• Imre Kertész (1929-2016), Hungarian writer, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald ,
• Noah Klieger (1925-2018), Israeli sports journalist and contemporary witness,
• Ruth Klüger (* 1931), literary scholar and writer in Irvine, California and Göttingen , was deported from Vienna to the concentration camps Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and finally to Christianstadt , from where she was finally able to escape.
• Gertrud Kolmar (1894–1943), German writer,
• Erich Kulka (1911–1995), Israeli historian, writer and publicist and Jewish survivor of the Holocaust of Czech origin,
• Primo Levi (1919–1987), Italian writer, survived Auschwitz III Monowitz and later wrote about his experiences,
• Philipp Manes (1875–1944), German fur trader of Jewish descent, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Max Mannheimer (1920–2016), Jewish author and survivor of the Holocaust,
• Ruth Maier (1920–1942), Austrian Jewish writer, best known for her diaries,
• Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942), Jewish writer from France, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Karel Poláček (1892–1945), Czech writer and journalist, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Zofia Posmysz (* 1923), Polish, later author and editor,
• Grete Reiner (1892–1944), German translator and editor of Jewish descent, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Josef Rosenzweig-Moir (1887–1943), Czech poet, writer and lawyer of Jewish descent,
• Erich Salomon (1886–1944), German photojournalist, was brought from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz with his wife and probably murdered there on July 7, 1944,
• Else Ury (1877–1943), German children's book author ("Nesthäkchen"), gassed shortly after January 12, 1943,
• Elie Wiesel (1928–2016), survived Auschwitz III Monowitz and later wrote about his experiences.

Actors and artists

• Heinz Alt (1922–1945), German composer,
• Rosebery d'Arguto (1890–1943), Polish music teacher and composer of Jewish descent, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Dinah Babbitt (1923–2009), American-Czech painter and sculptor of Jewish origin and Holocaust survivor,
• Jehuda Bacon (* 1929), artist, deported to the family camp as a child, was put into the so-called Rollwagenkommando, witness in the Eichmann trial and the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials ,
• Wladimir Dawidowitsch Baranow-Rossiné (1888–1944), Ukrainian-Russian painter and avant-garde artist of Jewish descent, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Esther Bejarano (* 1924), next to Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the last survivor of the Auschwitz Girls' Orchestra ,
• Else Berg (1877–1942), German-Dutch painter
• Otti Berger (1898–1944 / 45), textile artist and weaver, murdered in Auschwitz
• Wilhelm Brasse (1917–2012), Polish camp photographer, survivor
• Robert Clary (born 1926), French actor who starred in the series Hogan's Heroes to LeBeau ,
• Helene Croner (1885–1943), German violinist, member of the girls' orchestra
• Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898–1944), Austrian painter, craftswoman and interior designer, murdered in Auschwitz
• Vladimir Dyck (1882–1943), Ukrainian music teacher and composer of Jewish origin, victim of the Holocaust,
• Max Ehrlich (1892–1944), German cabaret artist, actor and director, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Richard Fall (1882–1945), Austrian composer and conductor of Jewish descent, victim of the Holocaust,
• Fania Fénelon (1922–1983), French chanson singer , Holocaust survivor,
• Sim Gokkes (1897–1943), Dutch composer of Jewish descent, victim of the Holocaust,
• Adolf Frankl (1903–1983), survived the death march of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, painted pictures from the inferno ,
• Kurt Gerron (1897–1944), actor (The Blue Angel) and director, died in Auschwitz in October 1944,
• Dora Gerson (1899-1943), German silent film - actress and cabaret - singer of Jewish descent, was murdered in Auschwitz (she was a divorced wife of Veit Harlan )
• Julius Graumann (1878–1944), German painter and graphic artist, murdered in 1944,
• Pavel Haas (1899–1944), Czech composer, victim of the Holocaust,
• Peter Hammerschlag (1902–1942), Austrian poet, murdered in 1942,
• Hans Krása (1899–1944), Czech-German composer,
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (* 1925), German cellist, survived as a member of the Auschwitz Girls' Orchestra . She was a witness in the Bergen-Belsen trial , which ended in mid-November 1945. Co-founder of the London English Chamber Orchestra , her son is the well-known cellist Raphael Wallfisch .
• Julo Levin (1901-1943), German expressionist painter of Jewish descent and victim of the Holocaust,
• Fritz Löhner-Beda (1883–1942), songwriter and librettist, lyricist of the Buchenwald song ,
• Franciszka Mann (1917–1943), Polish ballet dancer of Jewish origin, murdered in October 1943; tore a pistol from an SS man while undressing in front of the gas chamber, shot SS man Josef Schillinger and seriously wounded SS man Wilhelm Emmerich ,
• Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944), German painter, married to the painter Felka Platek , murdered in August 1944,
• Arno Nadel (1878–1943), German - Jewish musicologist , writer and painter and victim of the Holocaust
• Felka Platek (1899–1944), Polish painter, married to the painter Felix Nussbaum , murdered in August 1944,
• Ruth Rewald (1906–1942), German children's book author, last sign of life on July 18, 1942,
• Nico Richter (1915–1945), Dutch composer, was deported from Auschwitz to Dachau and later to Kaufering in 1944 , died a few weeks after liberation from the consequences of 3½ years in a concentration camp,
• Alma Rosé (1906–1944), violinist,
• Willy Rosen (1894–1944), German cabaret artist, composer and lyricist of Jewish origin, victim of the Holocaust,
• Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943), German painter of Jewish descent, victim of the Holocaust,
• Lina Salten (1890-1943), German actress, victim of the Holocaust,
• Rafael Schächter (1905–1944 / 1945), Czechoslovak pianist, composer and conductor. Organizer and one of the pioneers of cultural and artistic events in the Theresienstadt ghetto , deported to Auschwitz and died there,
• Franziska Schlopsnies (1884–1944), German fashion, poster and commercial artist
• Coco Schumann (1924-2018), German jazz musician and guitarist , survived the Holocaust,
• Mommie Schwarz (1876–1942), Dutch painter,
• Arthur Silbergleit (1881–1943), German-speaking, Silesian poet and narrator of Jewish descent, victim of the Holocaust,
• Tadeusz Sobolewicz (1925-2015), Polish actor,
• Magda Spiegel (1887–1944), German concert and opera singer of Jewish origin, victim of the Holocaust,
• Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944), composer, was brought from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz and gassed,
• Otto Wallburg (1889–1944), German actor of Jewish origin, victim of the Holocaust
• Sioma Zubicky (1926–2014), child prodigy of Jewish circus artists (played with Édith Piaf and Josephine Baker , among others ), writer ( play, circus child ), survivor.
• Haydée Schmidt born Grünwald (1884–1943), Jewish parents (daughter of the writer Sidonie Josepha Grünwald-Zerkowitz), harpist, member of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, deported from Dresden to Auschwitz in December 1942 and died there in March 1943.

Clergy and religious

• Angela Autsch (1900–1944), nun of the Mötz monastery in Tyrol ,
• Siegfried Grzymisch (1875–1944), German district rabbi, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Regina Jonas (1902–1944), first female rabbi , gassed on December 12, 1944,
• Edith Stein (1891–1942), Catholic nun and saint of Jewish descent, gassed in Auschwitz-Birkenau,
• Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941), Polish Franciscan minority , murdered in Auschwitz (voluntarily put on death row for another), canonized
• Josef Kowalski (priest) (1911–1942), Polish Salesian of Don Bosco , tortured in Auschwitz and drowned in a sewer
• Włodzimierz Szembek (1883–1942), Polish Salesian of Don Bosco, murdered in Auschwitz.

Other prisoners

• Victor Aronstein (1896–1945), German doctor, presumably gassed in Auschwitz on January 13, 1945,
• Werner Bab (1924-2010), German Holocaust survivor,
• Tana Berghausen (1942–1943) and Ruben Baer (1939–1944) , two children from Bielefeld (streets in their hometown were named after them, representing all murdered children),
• Dagobert Biermann (1904–1943), father of the songwriter Wolf Biermann , German communist of Jewish descent, victim of the Holocaust,
• Hana Brady (1931–1944), Jewish girl, made famous by the contents of her surviving suitcase ( Hana's suitcase ),
• Wilhelm Brasse (1917–2012), Polish Auschwitz survivor ( Auschwitz camp photographer for four years ),
• Thomas Buergenthal (* 1934), since 2000 judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague ,
• Susan Cernyak-Spatz (1922–2019), 1938 emigrated with her parents to Prague, 1942–1945 prisoner in the concentration camps Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück.
• Alex Deutsch (1913–2011), German of Jewish origin, Holocaust survivor,
• Jakob Edelstein (1903–1944), Czech of Jewish descent, first chairman of the council of elders in the Theresienstadt ghetto , murdered in Auschwitz,
• Jacques Feldbau (1914–1945), French mathematician of Jewish descent, victim of the Holocaust,
• Anne Frank (1929–1945), imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau between September and October 1944, then taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, died of typhus ,
• Edith Frank (1900–1945), mother of Anne Frank, was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau from September 1944 to January 1945, died on January 6, 1945 in the sick barrack of malnutrition,
• Otto Frank (1889–1980), father of Anne Frank, head of the Dutch Opekta , came to Auschwitz on September 3, 1944, survived and returned to Amsterdam , died in 1980 in Basel / Switzerland ,
• Viktor Frankl (1905–1997), was deported from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz for a few days, from there to Dachau , where he was liberated.
• Johann Friedländer (1882–1945), Lieutenant Field Marshal of the First Austrian Army ,
• Desider Friedmann (1880–1944), Austrian Zionist , lawyer and president of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien , was a victim of the Holocaust,
• Martin Gerson (1902–1944), German pioneer of Jewish origin for the Hachschara , victim of the Holocaust,
• Ala Gertner (1912–1945), involved in the uprising of the Sonderkommando
• Petr Ginz (1928–1944), Czech painter, story and diary writer, victim of the Holocaust,
• Wilhelm Groß (mining scientist) (1883–1944), German mining scientist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust
• Clara Grunwald (1877–1943), German teacher and protagonist of Montessori pedagogy of Jewish origin, victim of the Holocaust,
• Emmi Handke (1902–1994), German communist , longtime general secretary of the International Camp Committee Ravensbrück and member of the People's Chamber ,
• Ewald Hanstein , German Sinto
• Stanisław Hantz (1923–2008), Polish survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp (the Bildungswerk Stanisław Hantz eV based in Kassel was named after him),
• Etty Hillesum (1914–1943), Dutch - Jewish teacher (internationally known for her posthumously published diaries from 1941–1943),
• Fredy Hirsch (1916–1944), German prisoner of Jewish descent in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
• Hugo Höllenreiner , Sinto child in the camp
• Ottla Kafka (1892–1943), youngest sister of Franz Kafka , victim of the Holocaust,
• Hannah Karminski (1897–1943), German educator, protagonist of the Jewish Women's Association and social worker at the Reich Association of Jews in Germany , murdered in Auschwitz,
• Miroslav Kárný (1919–2001), Czech historian and Holocaust researcher of Jewish origin,
• Hanna Kohner (1919–1990), Czech survivor, later an American by choice , best known for a television appearance on her past
• Helena Kopper , (* 1910) prisoner of the penal company in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (found guilty in the Bergen-Belsen trial),
• Israel Kristal (1903–2017), Polish-Israeli confectioner. From 2014 until his death he was considered the oldest known survivor of the Holocaust, and since 2016 the world's oldest man.
• Erna Lauenburger (1920–1943), a real role model for the Sinti girl Unku from the youth book Ede und Unku , was murdered in the camp
• Jan Liwacz (1898–1980), Polish blacksmith
• Wilhelm Mautner (1889–1944), Austrian economist and art collector,
• Josef Meisel (1911–1993), Austrian communist and resistance fighter, who managed to escape from Auschwitz concentration camp,
• Bernhard Mosberg (1874–1944), German doctor of Jewish descent, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Karl Motesiczky (1904–1943), Austrian psychoanalyst and opponent of National Socialism, died in Auschwitz,
• Eva Mozes Kor (1934-2019), survivor of the twin experiments of Josef Mengele, contemporary witness and founder of the victims' organization CANDLES,
• Bernard Natan (1886–1942), Romanian-French director and entrepreneur, deported to Auschwitz on September 25, 1942, died in the camp in the same year,
• Julius Philippson (1894–1943), German teacher, socialist and resistance fighter against National Socialism, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Witold Pilecki (1901–1948), Polish soldier and resistance fighter, was the only known person to volunteer to report to Auschwitz
• Rózia Robota (1921–1945), involved in the Sonderkommando uprising,
• Otto Rosenberg (1927–2001), German Sinto and survivor
• Chaim Rumkowski (1877–1944), Chairman of the Jewish Council in the Łódź / Litzmannstadt Ghetto , victim of the Holocaust,
• Alexander Schapiro (1890–1942), Ukrainian anarchist of Jewish descent, publicist , victim of the Holocaust,
• Otto Selz (1881–1943), German philosopher and psychologist , victim of the Holocaust,
• Kazimierz Smoleń (1920–2012), Polish prisoner who resisted and later head of the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial,
• Justin Sonder (* 1925), German Auschwitz survivor
• Sophie Sondhelm (1887–1944), German nurse of Jewish descent, perished in Auschwitz,
• Ludwig Soswinski (1905–1997), Austrian communist and lawyer who was active in the camp resistance of the main camp
• Settela Steinbach (1934–1944), Dutch Sinto child who was murdered in the camp. A photo that was taken during their deportation from the Westerbork camp became well known.
• Tkaczuk Ivan (1921–1997) Bukowina Ukrainian was admitted to KL Auschwitz (main camp) on October 3, 1943 on the transport from Lwow (Lemberg). It was given the prisoner number 155046. Status: Political prisoner.
• Tadeusz Szymański (1917–2002), Polish Holocaust survivor and important employee of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum ,
• Abraham Icek Tuschinski (1886–1942), Dutch cinema operator of Jewish-Polish origin, murdered in Auschwitz,
• Franz Unikower (1901–1997), German lawyer of Jewish descent, co-founder of the Jewish community in Mecklenburg, President of the Higher Regional Court and member of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , survivor,
• Ludwig Vesely (1919–1944), Austrian communist and member of the camp resistance in the main camp,
• Katalin Vidor (1903–1976), Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor, author
• Rudolf Vrba (1924–2006), Slovak Jew and Holocaust survivor, interned in Birkenau from June 1942, managed to escape in April 1944 together with Alfréd Wetzler
• Erna de Vries (* 1923), German Holocaust survivor,
• Alfréd Wetzler (1918–1988), Slovak Jew and Holocaust survivor, interned in Birkenau from 1942, managed to escape together with Rudolf Vrba in April 1944
• Norbert Wollheim (1913–1998), German of Jewish origin, active as auditor, tax advisor, former member of the board of directors of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and functionary of Jewish organizations, emigrated to the USA after the end of the war ,
• Mala Zimetbaum (1918–1944), a prisoner since September 1942, fled the camp in June, was arrested again and murdered on September 15, 1944.

literature

• Susanne Beyer , Martin Doerry (ed.): “Auschwitz never left me”. Concentration camp survivors report . DVA, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-421-04714-4 (part of the Anne Frank Shoah Library ).
• Danuta Czech : Calendar of events in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp 1939–1945 . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-498-00884-6 .
• Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Ullstein-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-548-33014-2 .
• Franciszek Piper : The number of victims of Auschwitz . Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum 1993, ISBN 83-85047-17-4 .
• Andrzej Strzelecki: Final phase of KL Auschwitz - evacuation, liquidation and liberation of the camp , State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau 1995, ISBN 83-85047-48-4 .
• Oldrich Stransky: There is no justice on earth. Memories of a Czech Auschwitz survivor. (German 2010) Není spravedlnosti na zemi. (cesky 2002)

Web links

• DER SPIEGEL 6/1979: Nobody can get out of here - Auschwitz extermination camp: Inmate No. 290, Wieslaw Kielar, reports

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. , P. 70f.
2. ↑ State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau (ed.): Auschwitz in the eyes of the SS. Oświęcim 1998, p. 27f.
   Danuta Czech - Calendar The events in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau 1940, entry May 20, 1940 (pdf; 264 kB) .
3. ^ Hans Günther Adler: Auschwitz; Europ. Verlag-Anst., 1962; P. 170.
4. ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. , P. 174.
5. ↑ Sven Langhammer: The police preventive detention in Prussia from 1933-1937 using the example of the state concentration camp Lichtenburg in the province of Saxony , in: circular of the state-owned memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, issue 1, 2006 - special issue: New research on the concentration camp system on the Area of ​​today's state of Saxony-Anhalt, p. 33f.
6. ↑ Till Bastian: Auschwitz and the "Auschwitz Lie" - mass murder and falsification of history , 1997, p. 33.