4 September 1930 | Czech Jewish boy František (Franta) Bass was born in Brno. He was incarcerated in Theresienstadt ghetto on 2 December 1941. He wrote poetry there. Franta was murdered in Auschwitz on 30 October 1944. His poem "The Garden”. A little garden, Fragrant and

4 September 1888 | A Russian Jew, Salomon Gratch, was born in Rovne. He emigrated to France. In June 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

4 September 1910 | A Pole, Zbigniew Wasilewski, was born in Warsaw. An engineer. In #Auschwitz from 18 December 1941. No. 24732 He was shot in the camp on 19 June 1942.

5 September 1913 | Czech Jew, Karel Fischer, was born in Prague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive.

5 September 1935 | Dutch Jewish girl, Marlene Jacobs, was born in Enschede. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

5 September 1932 | A Dutch Jewish boy, David Ossendrijver, was born in Rotterdam. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 7 April 1944 in a transport of 240 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was among 111 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

5 September 1891 | A Polish woman, Stefania Palczewska, was born in Czaniec. A teacher. In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943. No 32395 In 1945 she was evacuated to KL Ravensbrück and liberated there.

5 September 1922 | A Czech Jewish woman, Eva Grünwaldová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

5 September 1898 | A Pole, Antoni Stachyra, was born in Lublin. In #Auschwitz from 6 April 1941. No. 14757 He perished in the camp on 10 October 1941.

5 September 1938 | A Polish Jewish boy, Jchiel Bela Tiszman, was born in Płońsk. In 1942 he was deported from the ghetto in Płońsk to #Auschwitz. He was murdered in a gas chamber.

5 September 1887 | A Polish Jew, Abraham Bier, was born in Tarnów. In #Auschwitz from 5 May 1942. No. 34707 He perished in the camp on 23 May 1942.

5 September 1942 | An SS doctor made a selection among female prisoners in the women's camp hospital (barracks 27) in Birkenau. All sick Jewish women, some 800 in total, were chosen & murdered in a gas chamber on the same day. Dr. Johann Paul Kremer who was present both at the

5 September 1901 | Czech Jewish woman, Valerie Reinerová, was born in Prague. She was depoted to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

5 September 1944 | A transport arrived at Auschwitz from the Westerbork camp in the German-occupied Netherlands with 498 men, 442 women and 79 children. After the selection at the ramp in Auschwitz II-Birkenau 258 men (camp numbers B-9108-B-9365) and 212 women (camp numbers

5 September 1895 | A German Jew, Leo Lowenthal, was born in Berlin. On 3 March 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

See our online lesson about the pre-war history of the town of Oświęcim, as well as the situation of the local community during the German occupation and its gradual expulsion as the result of the development of the nearby concentration camp. The lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_17_deportac…

5 September 1868 | Jewish man, Saul-Leb Rozenberg, was born in Bocicoiu Mare (then in Austro-Hungary, today Romania). He emigrated to Belgium. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 30 October 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival

5 September 1881 | Italian Jew, Tito Finzi, was born in Milan. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Fossoli camp on 5 April 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.