Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
- Also Known As: German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
- Vicinity: Oswiecim
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1942/08/17 | Irene Nemirovsky | Died | Irene Nemirovsky dies of typhus in Auschwitz Extermination Camp. | |||
| 1943/00/00 | Eugenia Wilder | Died | Eugenia Wilder dies at Auschwitz concentration camp. During the war she was in Plaszow, Poland. This is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 1957 May 12 by her brother, a Shoah survivor. | |||
| 1943/04/17 | Stanislawa Leszczynska | Captive | After interrogation by the Gestapo, Polish midwife Stanislawa Leszczynska and her 24-year-old daughter Sylwia are transported to Auschwitz concentration camp. | |||
| 1943/11/20 | Madeleine Dreyfus Levy | Captive | Madeleine Levy, granddaughter of Alfred Dreyfus, is transferred from the Drancy internment camp in Paris to Auschwitz, Poland. | |||
| 1944/01/00 | Madeleine Dreyfus Levy | Died | Madeleine Dreyfus Levy dies of typhus at Auschwitz Extermination Camp. | |||
| 1944/02/21 | Primo Levi | Captive | Primo Levi and other inmates are taken in twelve cattle trucks from Campo di Fossoli to Monowitz, one of Auschwitz's three main concentration camps. | |||
| 1944/09/03 | Otto Heinrich Frank | Captive | The Frank and Pels families are taken to the Westerbork concentration camp. From there, they are deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on 3 September 1944, the last train to be dispatched from Westerbork to Auschwitz. | |||
| 1944/09/03 | Edith Hollander Frank | Captive | The Frank and Pels families are taken to the Westerbork concentration camp. From there, they are deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on 3 September 1944, the last train to be dispatched from Westerbork to Auschwitz. | |||
| 1945/01/06 | Edith Hollander Frank | Died | Edith Frank dies of starvation at Auschwitz concentration camp. | |||
| 1945/01/26 | Stanislawa Leszczynska | Captive | Serving as the camp's midwife until it was liberated, Stanislawa Leszczynska delivers over 3,000 babies. A few hundred with blue eyes were sent away to be Germanized, about 2,500 died and about 30 survived at the camp in the care of their mothers. | World War II Ends | ||
| 1945/01/27 | Otto Heinrich Frank | Recalled to Life | Otto Frank is in the sick barracks at Auschwitz when the Extermination Camp is liberated the Soviet Red Army. | |||
| 1945/01/27 | Primo Levi | Recalled to Life | Auschwitz is liberated the Soviet Red Army. | |||
| 1955/09/24 | Alain Resnais begins filming his documentary, Night and Fog, at Auschwitz concentration camp, shoots until 4 October 1955 | Night and Fog (film) |
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| Auschwitz II-Birkenau | ||
| Memorial and Museum Auschwitz I |
| Particulars for Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp: | |
|---|---|
| Descrimination | Antisemitism |
| Historic Use | Concentration Camp |
| Era | Nazi Occupation |
| Cultural Affiliation | Nazi, Third Reich |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chronicle of a Summer | Film | Edgar Morin | "Chronicle of a Summer" features an extraordinary first-person account of a Jewish person's experience of Auschwitz. | |
| If this is a Man | Book | Primo Levi | Setting | |
| Schindler's Ark | Book | Thomas Keneally | Setting | |
| Schindler's List | Film | Steven Spielberg | Setting | |
| Sophie's Choice | Book | William Styron | Setting | |
| The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (book) | History Book | Saul Friedlander |
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