20 January 1890 | A Pole, Romuald Mańko, was born. A locksmith.
He was deported to #Auschwitz on 14 June 1940 from Tarnów in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
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He perished in the camp on 9 November 1941.
20 January 1897 | A Polish Jew, Isaak Einstein, was born in Bialystok. During the war he lived in Belgium.
He arrived at Auschwitz on 3 September 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Malines / Mechelen. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
19 January 1902 | A Jewish artist David Olère was born in Warsaw. In 1918 he emigrated to France.
In March 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz where he was forced to work in Sonderkommando. After the war he showed the horrifying world of gas chambers in drawings & paintings.