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Jan 25

25 January 1942 | Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler send an order to concentration camp inspector Richard Glücks that probably had the greatest impact on the entire future of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Learn more in the thread below.

"As it is not to be expected that Russian prisoners of war will be obtained in the near future, I order that from among the Jewish men and women emigrating [sic!] from Germany a large number of them be sent to the camps..."

"...Be prepared, therefore, to transfer 100,000 male Jews & up to 50,000 female Jews to concentration camps in the next 4 weeks. In the coming weeks the concentration camps will be entrusted with great economic orders and tasks. SS-Gruppenführer Pohl will give you the details".

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Jan 25

Before the 77th anniversary of the liberation of #Auschwitz we bring together the most important facts about the last stage of the operation of this German Nazi camp. See the rest of this [THREAD] below. 1/11

At the beginning of 1945, there were around 67,000 prisoners in the Auschwitz camp system. On 12 January 1945, the Soviets started their offensive. In mid-January head of the SS in the region, Ernst Schmauser gave the order to evacuate Auschwitz. 2/11

The final evacuation began on 17 January 1945. Around 58,000 prisoners were evacuated from the Auschwitz camp system. Columns of prisoners were leaving the camps and subcamps between 17 and 21 January. 3/11

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Jan 24

24 January 1932 | A Pole, Bogdan Bartnikowski, was born in Warsaw.

He arrived at #Auschwitz in a transport from the Warsaw Uprising on 12 August 1944
No. 192731
He was evacuated from Auschwitz & survived the war.
Today he celebrates his 90th birthday.

The Bartnikowski Family. The Father perished in the Warsaw Uprising, the mother & the son - Bogdan - were deported by German Nazis through Pruszków to #Auschwitz.

Bogdan Bartnikowski was 12 years old when he became a prisoner of Auschwitz no. 192731. "Two days before that, I had a normal life. I had a mother and a father. All of the sudden, I was all alone.". Watch the entire interview with Bogdan Bartnikowski: tvn24.pl/the-camp-inter…

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Jan 18

18 January 1945 | In the early morning female camp at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau began the evacuation. On that day 5,345 women left the camp and began the Death March. #Auschwitz77

The prisoners of Auschwitz III-Monowitz were evacuated in columns of 1,000 people each. The Germans left behind 850 sick prisoners in the camp.

Before evacuation of Gleiwitz I subcamp SS shot several dozen of sick & exhausted prisoners. auschwitz.org/en/history/aus…

Some 800 prisoners were led out of Janinagrube subcamp. Only about 200 of them reached KL Gross-Rosen. auschwitz.org/en/history/aus…

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Jan 17

17 January 1945 | SS physician Josef Mengele liquidated his laboratory at the BIIf section of #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. During the evacuation he took with him the entire documentation of his experiments made on prisoners: twins, dwarfs, and people with disabilities.

In Auschwitz Mengele carried out anthropometric, serological & morphological studies of the twins. He deliberately infected some children with typhus. The final phase of his experiments included killing of the twins & conducting a comparative analysis or particular organs.

Mengele’s other areas of interest were biological abnormalities, such as people with heterochromia iris - a pair of eyes with diverse coloration, the physiology and pathology of dwarfism as well as gangrenous disease of the face known as noma faciei.

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Jan 8

8 January 1942 | 60 Poles - including 4 Jews - deported to the camp by Sipo u. SD in Cracow arrived at #Auschwitz from Montelupich Prison. Among them was Adam Kopyciński, who in May 1944 became the conductor of the camp orchestra. 1/4

Adam Kopyciński was born on August 5, 1907 in Osielec Podhalański. The Germans arrested him in Cracow on August 6, 1941. In Auschwitz, he was registered as number 25294. He became a member of the camp orchestra, where he played the piano and the lyre. 2/4

At the same time, like other prisoners of the orchestra, he was employed in various work units at the main camp - he worked as a street sweeper, and then in a potato peeling room & package post office. 3/4

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