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List of Victims  of Auschwitz

(People unknowingly selected to die in Auschwitz walking to the Gas Chamber in 1944.)

This is the fragmentary list of all of the victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. This list represents only a sample portion of the 1.1 million victims and some survivors of the Auschwitz death camp and is not intended to be viewed as a representative count by any means.

Estella Agsteribbe: (April 6, 1909 -September 17, 1943) Jewish . Gymnast. Member of the Gold medal winning Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Heinz Alt: (1922 -January 6, 1945) Jewish. Composer. Deported from Theresienstadt concentration camp to the camp on September 28, 1944.

Jan Ančerl:  (February 28, 1943 - c. October 15, 1944) Jewish. Son of Karel Ančerl and Valy Ančerl. Born while parents were in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Count Bernard of Łubieński: (February 23, 1894 - October 10, 1941) Polish. Noble. Was a member of the Polish Ministry of Commerce and Industrial Affairs before war broke out. Belonged to the first group of people to organise the underground fight.

René Blum: (March 13, 1878 - c. September 1942) Jewish. Choreographer, founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra; brother of Léon Blum. Transferred to the camp on September 23, 1942.

Hana Brady: (May 16, 1931 - October 23, 1944) Jewish. Arrived at the camp on October 23, 1944, and was gassed immediately.

Bronisław Czech: (July 25, 1908 - June 4, 1944) Polish. Skier – 24 times Polish champion, and participant of Winter Olympics of 1928, 1932 and 1936; soldier of Armia Krajowa.

Lea Deutsch: (March 18, 1927 - May 1943) Jewish. Child actress. Born Jewish, converted to Roman Catholicism with her family on June 1941 as an attempt by her father to save the family from certain death, but still considered Jewish by Nazi racial laws. Died in the cattle wagon routed to Auschwitz.

Miroslav Šalom Freiberger:  (January 9, 1903 -May 8, 1943) Jewish. Head Rabbi of Jewish Municipality of Zagreb, catechist, translator, writer and spiritual leader, educated in law and theology science. On last transport of Jews from Croatia. Killed at camp entrance when he protested against the inhumane procedure that was implemented against the members of his community.

Kurt Gerron: (May 11, 1897 - October 28, 1944) Jewish. Actor and film director; was either persuaded or coerced by the Nazis to make a propaganda film showing how humane the conditions were at Theresienstadt concentration camp. After filming finished, he was deported on the final transport ever to Auschwitz, on October 28, 1944, and was gassed immediately.

Petr Ginz: (February 1, 1928 - September 28, 1944) Jewish. Writer. Esperantist.

Roza Robota: (1921- January 5, 1945) Jewish. Smuggled gunpowder into the camp to help the Sonderkommando blow up Crematorium IV during an October 7, 1944 revolt. Tortured and eventually executed by hanging along with her three conspirators, the last public hanging at Auschwitz.

Jane Haining: (June 6, 1897- August 16, 1944) Scottish . Scottish missionary working in Hungary since 1932. Arrested by the Nazis in 1944 on charges of espionage and working among Jews while trying to save young Jewish girls. Arrested and sent to prisons in Fő utca and Buda, and then sent to Auschwitz in May 1944, where she was tattooed as prisoner 79467.

Rafael Schächter: (May 25, 1905 - January 1945) Jewish. Composer, pianist and conductor. Helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Died on the death march.

Etty Hillesum: (January 15, 1914- November 30, 1943) Jewish. Diarist and writer.

Regina Jonas: (August 3, 1902- October 12 or December 12, 1944) Jewish. First ordained female rabbi in Germany, rabbi at Neue Synagoge in Berlin, killed two months after entering the camp.

Bereck Kofman: (October 10, 1900 – 1943) Jewish> Hasidic orthodox rabbi, deported to Auschwitz from Drancy internment camp on Convoy No. 12 on July 29, 1942. According to survivor, he was at the camp for one year before his murder by a Kapo on a Shabbat because he refused to work. He was beaten up with a pickax and buried alive. Father of French philosopher Sarah Kofman.

Saint Maximilian Kolbe: (January 8, 1894 - August 14, 1941) Polish. Saint. Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of Polish Army Sergeant Franciszek Gajowniczek, who was a stranger to him.

Rutka Laskier: (1929 – 1943) Jewish. Teenager who wrote a diary. Her writings were posthumously published. Dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank".

Donat Makijonek: (May 19, 1890 - June 18, 1941) Polish. World War I ace; KZ Number 16301.

Bernard Natan: (July 14, 1886 - October 1942) Jewish. Film director and actor and former head of Pathé Film Studios. Arrived at the camp on September 25, 1942 and was killed several weeks later.

Józef Noji: (September 8, 1909 - February 15, 1943) Polish. Track and field athlete and participant of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Murdered by the camp's SS guard, allegedly for trying to smuggle a letter.

Saint Grigol Peradze: (September 13, 1899 - December 6, 1942) Georgian. Saint. Priest, ecclesiastic figure, theologian, historian, Archimandrite, PhD of History, professor.

Saint Edith Stein: (October 12, 1891- August 9, 1942) German. Saint. Philosopher and nun. Born into a Jewish family, considered a "Catholic Jew" (of Jewish heritage, but baptized and practiced Catholicism, considered Jewish by Nazi racial laws).

Chaim Rumkowski: (February 27, 1877 - August 28, 1944) Jewish. Nazi-appointed head of the Judenrat while he lived in the Łódź Ghetto in Poland. He was known to abuse his power, such as by molesting young Jewish women within the Ghetto. Family was also killed at the camp.

Erika Taube: (1913 - October 1, 1944) Polish. Automobile engineer and the designer of the first Polish serially-built automobile, the CWS T-1. Arrested on July 3, 1940, and sent to the camp.

Prince Ludwik Swiatopelk-Czetwertynski: (1876 or 1877 - May 3, 1941) Polish. Noble.

Sarah Wiesel: (1905 - May 1944) Jewish. Mother of Elie Wiesel. Gassed immediately.

Mala Zimetbaum: (January 26, 1922 - September 15, 1944) Jewish. Deported to the camp on Transport #10 on September 15, 1942. Inmate #19880. Her proficiency in several languages allowed her to work as an interpreter in the camp. Publicly executed at the camp after an escape attempt, with her lover, Edward Galiński.

Edward Galiński: (May 10, 1923 - September 15, 1944) Polish. Publicly executed at the camp after an escape attempt, with his lover, Mala Zimetbaum.

Eddy Hamel: (October 21, 1902 - April 30, 1943) Jewish (American). American soccer right winger (AFC Ajax).

Simon Okker (1 June 1881 – 6 March 1944), Dutch Olympic fencer.

Lion van Minden (10 June 1880 – 6 September 1944), Dutch Olympic fencer.

Ettie Steinberg, (1914-1942), Only Irish person killed in Holocaust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_victims_and_survivors_of_Auschwitz