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List of Survivors of Auschwitz

(Children Survivors of Auschwitz liberated by the Soviet Red Army in January 1945.)

This is the fragmentary list of all of the survivors 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. Survivors refers to those that left Auschwitz alive – they could have died in another Concentration Camp.

Survivors:

Tova Friedman:  (September 10, 1938 -) Jewish. Friedman is among the youngest people to survive the Nazi Holocaust

Helen Lewis: (June 22, 1916 -December 31, 2009) Jewish. In Auschwitz: May 1944-January 1945. Dancer who trained in Prague. Left Auschwitz on a forced march to Stutthof concentration camp in January 1945. Emigrated in 1947 to Belfast, where she worked as a dance teacher and choreographer. Her autobiography, A Time to Speak, was published in 1992.

Władysław Bartoszewski: (February 19, 1922 - April 24, 2015) Polish, In Auschwitz: September 22, 1940– April 8, 1941. Member of Armia Krajowa. Released from camp due to actions by Polish Red Cross. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (twice) after 1989.

George Brady: (February 9, 1928 - January 11, 2019) Jewish> In Auschwitz: October 23, 1944– January 18, 1945. Plumber. Sent on the death march; escaped when a Soviet tank blew a hole in the building he was in. His mother, father and sister Hana were gassed at the camp.

Bat-Sheva Dagan: (September 8, 1925- ) Jewish. In Auschwitz: May 1943 – January 1945. Kindergarten teacher, psychologist, author. Worked in camp infirmary and in the "Canada" commando. Survived death march to Ravensbrück and Malchow concentration camps in January 1945, and death march to Lübz, where she was liberated on May 2, 1945. Pioneer in children's Holocaust education, author of books, poems, and songs on Holocaust themes as well as psychological and pedagogical methods for teaching the Holocaust to young children.

Dario Gabbai: (September 2, 1922- )Jewish (Greek) In Auschwitz: April 1944– January 18, 1945. Member of Sonderkommando. Family was killed at the camp. Sent on the death march.

Józef Paczyński: (January 20, 1920 - April 26, 2015) Polish. In Auschwitz: June 1940– January 18, 1945. Political prisoner. About every 1 1/2 weeks, he was ordered to cut the hair of the camp's commanding officer, Rudolf Höss. Personally witnessed gassings from nearby.

Kazimierz Piechowski: (October 3, 1919 - December 15, 2017) Polish. In Auschwitz: June 20, 1940 – June 20, 1942/ Imprisoned because the boy scouts were labeled a criminal organization. From Rajkowy. Deported to camp on second transport from Tarnów. On June 20, 1942, he escaped from Auschwitz I along with 3 other prisoners, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, fully armed. They stole an SS staff car from the motor pool, a Steyr 220 belonging to Rudolf Höss, and drove out the main gate. The escape was facilitated by Piechowski's fluent command of German. As they drove toward the gate he told the guards to hurry up and open it. None of the four were recaptured.

Helena Citrónová: Jewish. Worked in the "Canada" sector of the camp. An SS officer, Franz Wunch, fell in love with her. As a result, Wunch would later save Helena's sister from the gas chambers, although her sister's son and daughter could not be saved.

Eva Mozes Kor: (January 31, 1935 - July 4, 2019) Jewish. In Auschwitz: 1944– January 27, 1945 . One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Both of her parents and two older sisters were killed at the camp; only Miriam and herself survived. Founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center.

Miriam Mozes: (January 31, 1935 - June 6, 1993) Jewish. In Auschwitz: 1944 – January 27, 1945  Eva's twin sister. One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Mengele injected Miriam with a chemical that stopped the growth of her kidneys; later, Eva donated one of her kidneys.

Peter Greenfeld: (1940 - ) Jewish. In Auschwitz: 1944 – January 27, 1945  One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Known at the camp as "Josef "Peipchek" Klineman". Born in Prague.

Martha Klineman: (1940 - ) Jewish. In Auschwitz: 1944 – January 27, 1945  Peter's twin. One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Born in Prague.

Zvi Ernst Spiegel: (1913 or 1914 - ) In Auschwitz: ?– January 27, 1945. Assigned to supervise twins used in the medical experiments of Josef Mengele. Saved children from the gas chamber on several occasions. After the camp's liberation, he took 157 Mengele twins and homeless children to safety in Hungary. 29 years old in 1944.

Miklós Nyiszli: (June 17, 1901 - May 5, 1956) Jewish. In Auschwitz: June 1944– January 18, 1945. Prisoner, and doctor (pathologist) who served Josef Mengele. Sent on the death march. .

Henryk Mandelbaum: (December 15, 1922 - June 17, 2008) Jewish. In Auschwitz: April 22, 1944 – January 18, 1945  Part of Sonderkommando. Fled on a death march.

Lucille Eichengreen: (February 1, 1925 -)  Jewish. In Auschwitz: August 1943– October 1944. From Hamburg. Deported to Łódź Ghetto on October 26, 1941, where she was molested by Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. Remained there for two years until deported to Auschwitz. Transferred to Neuengamme Concentration Camp.

Witold Pilecki: (May 13, 1901- May 25, 1948) Polish. In Auschwitz: September 22, 1940– April 26, 1943 . Soldier and secret agent ("Tomasz Serafiński"). He volunteered to be imprisoned at Auschwitz (the only person known to do so) for a Polish resistance operation in order to gather intelligence and escape. As the author of the Witold's report, the first intelligence report on Auschwitz, his operation enabled the Polish Government-in-Exile to convince the Allies that the Holocaust was taking place. Later executed by communists.

Elie Wiesel: (September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016) Jewish. In Auschwitz: May 17, 1944– January 1945. Writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1986). His mother and younger sister were gassed immediately. Transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, where Wiesel's father, Shlomo, was killed. Two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice, survived.

Gisella Perl: (December 10, 1907- December 16, 1988) Jewish. In Auschwitz: 1944. Gynecologist. Forced to be an inmate doctor. Saved the lives of hundreds of pregnant women by aborting their pregnancies (pregnant women were often killed for experiments by Josef Mengele).

Rudolf Vrba: (September 11, 1924 - March 27, 2006) Jewish. In Auschwitz: June 30, 1942 – April 7, 1944. Scientist. Escaped from the camp. Co-author of the Vrba-Wetzler report, delivered to the Allies, which saved the lives of an estimated 120 to 200 thousand Jews. Testified against Adolf Eichmann at Eichmann's trial.

Alfréd Wetzler: (May 10, 1918 - February 8, 1988) Jewish. In Auschwitz: 1942– April 7, 1944. Escaped from the camp. Co-author of the Vrba-Wetzler report, delivered to the Allies, which saved the lives of an estimated 120 to 200 thousand Jews.

Primo Levi: (July 31, 1919 - April 11, 1987) Jewish (Italian). In Auschwitz: February 21, 1944 – January 18, 1945. Was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems.

Anne Frank: (June 12, 1929 - February or March 1945) Jewish (German). In Auschwitz: September 3, 1944– October 28, 1944. Teenage diarist from Amsterdam, held 7 weeks at Auschwitz, transferred to Bergen-Belsen where she died of Typhus.

Ted Banwell, British soldier and member of Dutch Resistance.

Leo Bretholz, Austrian Jew who escaped from train en route, author of Leap into Darkness (1998).

Xawery Dunikowski, Polish sculptor and artist, best known for his Neo-Romantic sculptures and Auschwitz-inspired art, survived.

Kurt Epstein, Czechoslovak Jewish Olympic water polo competitor.

Franciszek Gajowniczek, Polish Army Sergeant whose life was spared when Maximilian Kolbe took his place. Survived and died in 1995.

Józef Garliński, Polish best selling writer who wrote numerous books in both English and Polish on Auschwitz and World War II, including the best selling 'Fighting Auschwitz'. Survived and died in 2005.

Leon Greenman, British anti-fascism campaigner. Survived and died in 2008.

Ruth Huppert Elias, Czechoslovak-Jewish (from Ostrava), Author of Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel, survived.

Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel Laureate in Literature for 2002.

Stanisław Kętrzyński, Polish historian and diplomat.

Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Polish-Jewish (born in Tyliczi), author of Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz, survived.

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter, co-founder the wartime Polish organization Żegota. Released through the efforts of the Polish underground.

Bedriska 'Ishka' Lavecka (Irene Capek), from Czechoslovakia, MBE (28 December 1924 – 19 November 2006) was a Jewish Holocaust survivor, humanitarian and local Australian politician.

Filip Müller, inmate no. 29236, survivor and author of Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers (1979).

Alfred "Artem" Nakache, French swimmer, world record (200-m breaststroke), one-third of French 2x world record (3x100 relay team), imprisoned in Auschwitz, where his wife and daughter were killed.

Ignacy Oziewicz, (1887–1966) Polish army officer, first commandant of Narodowe Sily Zbrojne

Mira Ryczke Kimmelman German-Jewish (from Danzig), author of Echoes from the Holocaust. A Memoir,

Vladek and Anja Spiegelman, parents of Art Spiegelman, author of Maus. Vladek Spiegelmann was the central character in Maus.

Rose Van Thyn (1921–2010), Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck survivor who directed Holocaust education activities in her adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Simone Veil, née Simone Annie Jacob (July 13, 1927–June 30, 2017), French politician, survived.

Shlomo Venezia, (1923–2012) Greek-Jewish (born in Thessaloniki), author of Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz, survived.

Rose Warfman (née Gluck), (1916–2016) a French nurse, member of the French Resistance.

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