28 June 1912 | A Polish man, Józef Pazdro, was born in Dębica.
He was deported to #Auschwitz on 14 June 1940 from Tarnów in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 47
In 1944 he was transferred to Buchenwald. He survived.
22 June 1900 | Italian Jewish woman, Elena Spizzichino, was born in Velletri.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 October 1943 in a transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome. Together with her daughter Franca she was among 839 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
21 June 1903 | German Jew, Erich Bundheim, was born in Emden. A merchant. He emigrated to the Netherlands.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 17 July 1942 in a transport of 2,000 Jews deported from #Amersfoort and #Westerbork.
No. 48060
He perished in the camp on 22 August 1942.
21 June 1899 | Czech Jewish composer Pavel Haas was born. Student of Leoš Janáček. Among his notable works are song cycles & string quartets. In 1941 he was imprisoned in #Theresienstadt Ghetto where he also composed.
Pavel Haas was murdered in Auschwitz on 17 October 1944.
17 June 1942 | SS men shot 120 Polish prisoners at the Death Wall in #Auschwitz I. They were selected from those deported to the camp from Warsaw, Krakow, Tarnów, Radom, and Lublin.
One of them was a brickmaker from Marki Edward Rabczyński (np. 22869).
One of some 140,000 Poles incarcerated in Auschwitz.
Learn about the creation of the camp, reasons for the incarceration of Poles & their fate in the German Nazi camp from our online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/
12 June 1929 | A Polish Jewish girl, Rutka Laskier, was born. She lived in Będzin. Author of a memoir published in 2006.
Deported to Auschwitz on 5 August 1943 with her mother Dwojra and a brother Joachim. Murdered in the camp immediately after selection or in December 1943.