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Visual Materials from Voices of Memory, Part 5

This multimedia presentation features visual materials used in the book "Voices of Memory, Part 5." Explore documents, photographs, and records from Auschwitz, including the main record books of the Roma camp and reports on prisoner transfers. Learn about the lives of women prisoners, including pregnant women and midwives like Stanisława Leszczyńska. Discover the stories of resilience and survival in the face of unimaginable circumstances.

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Visual Materials from Voices of Memory, Part 5

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  1. The multimedia presentation contains visual materials used in the book “Voices of Memory, part 5”. All volumes are available at the Auschwitz Museum’s online bookshop atwww.auschwitz.org.pl International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  2. Documents and photographs International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  3. Documents and photographs A page from the main record book (Hauptbuch) of the Roma camp for men, featuring boys born in the “Gypsy family camp,” the Zigeunerfamilienlager.“Birkenau” is entered in the column for place of birth. Source: APMA-B, Main record book of the Roma camp for men, p. 243. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  4. Documents and photographs A page from the main record book (Hauptbuch) of the Roma campfor women, featuring girls born in the “Gypsy family camp,” theZigeunerfamilienlager. “Birkenau b. Auschwitz” is entered in thecolumn for place of birth. Source: APMA-B, Main record book of the Roma camp for women, p. 575. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  5. Documents and photographs Report of September 11, 1944 from the commandant of StutthofConcentrationCamp informing the WVHA (SS Main Economic andAdministrative Office) about the transfer the previous day from Stutthofto Auschwitz of 573 Jewish prisoners (youths and mothers withchildren), as well as mothers with children and pregnant women of non-Jewish (arisch) origins. Source: APMA-B, Transport lists from Stutthof to Auschwitz, microfilm no. 1764/35. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  6. Documents and photographs Document reporting the daily count of women prisoners in the Birkenau women’s camp on December 25, 1944. The number of newlyborn children is listed (Neugeborene Kinder – 3). Source: APMA-B, Stärkemeldung, AuII – FKL, p. 126. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  7. Documents and photographs Receipt for foodstuffs obtained from camp food storage for pregnantwomen and breastfeeding mothers in the women’s camp in Birkenau,January 10, 1945. Starting in 1944, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers obtained“dietetic” food. Instead of a portion of bread and a herbal infusion, theyreceived half a roll baked from white flour and half a liter of soup (oatmealor gruel) made with skim milk, morning and evening. Source: APMA-B, D-AuI – 4/20, vol. 1, p. 12. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  8. Documents and photographs Stanisława Leszczyńska, born in Łódź on May 8, 1896, trained asa midwife. Arrested together with her daughter and two sons inFebruary 1943 for aiding persons wanted by the Gestapo. Sent toAuschwitz on April 17, 1943 and given number 41335. (Her daughterSylwia, also deported to Auschwitz, was number 41336.) After several weeks in quarantine, she was assigned to work in the women’shospital, the so-called Revier, as a midwife. She held this job untilthe end, when the camp was liberated on January 27, 1945. She diedin 1974. 1970 photograph (APMA-B, negative no. 16650). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  9. Documents and photographs Camp letter written by Stanisława Leszczyńska, dated December3, 1944. On the form is information that prisoner StanisławaLeszczyńska, born May 8, 1896, prisoner number 41335, was quarteredin block no. 28 in sector BIIe.Source: APMA-B, Camp letters, vol. 35, p. 17. In connection with plans for the evacuation and liquidation of the camp,the SS authorities decided in November 1944 to move all the prisoners inBirkenau to sector BII. The hospital for women prisoners was moved fromsector BIa to BIIe, where the Zigeunerlager had previously been located. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  10. Documents and photographs Anna Fefferling (named Gomez after the war), a Polish Jewish womanfrom Warsaw, was sent to Auschwitz on February 12, 1943 from the prison in Radom. Unrecognized, she was registered as a Poleunder her maiden name Katz and obtained number 35133. She was in the advanced stages of pregnancy when she arrived in Auschwitz,and gave birth to her son Józef in the camp on April 28, 1943. For several months, the child was concealed from the camp authorities.At a later period, he was registered and received number 155910. Mother and son were liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1943. (APMA-B). See her account on p. 39. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  11. Documents and photographs Józef, the son of Anna Fefferling. Photograph taken soon after liberation. (APMA-B, neg. no. 2348). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  12. Documents and photographs Stefania Homik, born November 5, 1918 in Krzeczowice (Podkarpackieprovince, Poland). Arrested in Laubendorf, Germany, where she had been transported as a slave laborer, she was sent to Auschwitzin a mass transport on January 19, 1943 and registered as prisoner no. 29592. She was then in the third or fourth month of pregnancy.She gave birth to her son Jerzy in the camp on June 27, 1943. Her child was taken from her several months later and she neversaw him again. She remained in Auschwitz until liberation. (APMA-B;see her account on p. 41). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  13. Documents and photographs Personal file card for prisoner no. 155909, Jerzy Homik, born in thecamp on June 27, 1943. He was taken from his mother and departed Auschwitz for an unknown destination on January 19, 1944. Source: APMA-B, D-AuI-3a/408-692, vol. 4, p. 400. Międzynarodowe Centrum Edukacji o Auschwitz i Holokauście ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.pl

  14. Documents and photographs Official birth certificate (Geburtsurkunde) for Auschwitz prisoner Ryszard Kulpa, born in the camp on August 6, 1943. The document was issued by the camp Civil Registry Office (Standesamt II). The mother, Zofia Kulpa, was born in Kłobukowice on January 8, 1920 and arrested as a hostage in place of her husband Franciszek, who belonged to the resistance movement. Her parents and her threeyear- old daughter Irena were arrested along with her. After the initial investigation, Irena and her grandparents were sent to the Polenlager in Racibórz; Zofia was placed in block 2a in Auschwitz at the disposition of the investigative jail in Mysłowice. She was arrested as a result of the Oderberg Aktion, directed against Polish families in Silesia and the Dąbrowa Basin. On March 5, 1943, Zofia was designated political prisoner 37577 and transferred to the women’s camp in Birkenau in spite of the fact that she was pregnant. After she gave birth, the determined intervention of her relatives led to her being released from Auschwitz together with her son. Her husband Franciszek was later arrested and executed in Mysłowice. The Germans confiscated all the couple’s belongings, including their house. Source: APMA-B, Geburtsurkunde Fond, D-AuI-2/1, vol. 1, p. 1. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  15. Documents and photographs Official notification of the release of prisoner no. 37577, Zofia Kulpa,issued by the office of the commandant of Auschwitz and dated August 20, 1943. In the lower left-hand corner is an annotation placingher under an obligation to report daily to the police in Sosnowiec. Source: APMA-B, D-AuI-I/68, vol. 2, p. 4. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  16. Documents and photographs Józefa Alf, born February 1, 1911 and sent to Auschwitz in a transportof women from Radom on January 22, 1943, at which time she was pregnant. Registered under number 30558, she gave birth onAugust 16 to a son, Józef, who was taken from her and transferred out of the camp. Józefa never saw her son again. She was in Auschwitzuntil January 1945, when she was transferred to Ravensbrück. She was liberated at the Neustadt-Glewe camp. (APMA-B). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  17. Documents and photographs Personal file card for prisoner 155912, Marek Józef Alf, born in Auschwitz on August 16, 1943. He was taken from his mother and transferred on October 11, 1944, probably to the camp for children from the east (Ost Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Tuchingen) in Konstantynów near Łódź. His mother’s efforts to locatehim after the war failed. Source: APMA-B, A-AuI-3a/88-407, vol. 3, p. 19. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  18. Documents and photographs Stanisława Galek, Auschwitz prisoner number 34349, sent to thecamp on February 5, 1943 in a transport of Poles and Jews expelled from the Zamość region. She was in the early months of pregnancy.She gave birth to her son Tadeusz in the camp on September 6, 1943. The child was taken from her and transferred to the UWZ (Umwandererzentrale)resettlement center in Potulice (UWZ Lager Lebrechtsdorf- Potulitz). Stanisława survived Auschwitz but never managed totrace her son. (APMA-B). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  19. Documents and photographs Tadeusz Galek. The boy was taken from his mother and transferred for Germanization to the camp in Potulice on October 11, 1944. After liberation, he was one of a group of orphans taken to Będzin, where he was adopted by a Polish family. Only after his mother’s death did Stanisław discover his true family. Photograph taken after the war. (APMA-B, neg. no. 24 169/3). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  20. Documents and photographs Personal file card for child prisoner Tadeusz Galek, born in Auschwitzon September 6, 1943 and registered as prisoner number 155915. Source: APMA-B, D-Au I – 3a/408-692, vol. 4, p. 133. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  21. Documents and photographs Official death certificate for Vladimir Karpeniuk, son of Natalia Karpeniuk. He was born in Auschwitz on September 19, 1943 and died there on November 14, 1943. The listed cause of death is “complications of gastroenteritis.” Source: APMA-B, Sterbebuch, vol. 22/2/43, p. 775. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  22. Documents and photographs Official death certificate for Natalia Karpeniuk, born December 31, 1921 in Antonov, USSR. In Auschwitz, she gave birth to a son, Vladimir, on September 19, 1943. She died in Auschwitz on December 22, 1943. The listed cause of death is “pulmonary inflammation.” Source: APMA-B, Sterbebuch, vol. 25/2/43, p. 777. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  23. Documents and photographs Official death certificate for the child Anton Juratovic, born in Auschwitz on December 14, 1943, son of a Yugoslavian Auschwitz prisoner, Marica Juratovic. Anton died in Auschwitz on December 29, at the age of fifteen days. Source: APMA-B, Sterbebuch, D-AuI-2/47, vol. 25, p. 862. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  24. Documents and photographs Vera Moskaleva (after the war: Yuzhenko) with her daughter Galina,who was born in Auschwitz. Vera was deported to Auschwitz from Vitebsk on October 22, 1943 and designated number 65908. She waspregnant at the time. She gave birth to her daughter on January 28, 1944. Galina was tattooed with number 75015 two days after birth.Mother and daughter were liberated on January 27, 1945. Postwar photograph. (APMA-B, neg. no. 16352). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  25. Documents and photographs Leokadia Stawska, sent to Auschwitz from Lublin on October 3, 1943 and designated number 64055. (APMA-B, neg. no. 2455/1). Teresa Stawska, born March 7, 1944 in Auschwitz and registered witha number above 75000; the tattooed number is illegible. Teresa andher mother were liberated in Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. Photograph taken soon after liberation in 1945. (APMA-B, neg. no. 16194). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  26. Documents and photographs A child born in Auschwitz with her adoptive mother Bronisława Wesołowska. The child is probably Katia Kulik, born April 27, 1944 and probably registered as number 79528. The girl’s mother, Fiedora Ustinovna Kulik, number 61985, was sent to Auschwitz from Vitebsk on September 9, 1943 together with other civilians from Byelorussia following pacification operations there in reprisal for partisan attacks. The mother probably died in Auschwitz after giving birth to twins. One of the twins, a boy, also died. The girl, given the name Basia, was deported in October to the camp in Potulice (UWZ Lager Lebrechtsdorf-Potulitz). After the liberation of that camp, she was one of a group of orphans taken to Będzin. There, she was adopted by Wesołowska and her husband. Photograph taken in Będzin in 1945. (APMA-B, neg. no. 4712). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  27. Documents and photographs Stanisława Perończyk with her daughter Barbara. The mother was in the third month of pregnancy when she was deported to Auschwitz on November 13, 1943 along with her husband Stefan. She was registered as prisoner number 67849, and Stefan as number 162735. Stanisława gave birth to a daughter in Auschwitz on May 17, 1944. During registration, the girl had the number 79496 tattooed on her left thigh. Mother and child were liberated in Auschwitz. Stefan died during the evacuation of Mauthausen Concentration Camp, to which he was transferred from Auschwitz on December 4, 1944. Photograph taken in Chrzanów in 1945. (APMA-B, neg. no. 22 677/1). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  28. Documents and photographs Ilona Pal, a Jewish woman from Hungary, born 1910 and arrested in Budapest by the Hungarian police in May 1944. She and her parents family were deported to Auschwitz at the end of June. She was in the sixth month of pregnancy at the time of deportation. An experimental surgical abortion was performed on her in the camp. (APMA-B, microfilm no. 78497). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  29. Documents and photographs Nadezhda Dorofeyevna Feshchenko-Katsayeva, prisoner number 73892, of Russian origin, with her son Nikolai. Born in Auschwitz on July 23, 1944, Nikolai’s camp number was probably 187971 (the number tattooed on his left arm is partially illegible). Nadezhda was deported to Auschwitz in a mass transport on December 22, 1943. She and her son were liberated in Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. Photograph from the 1960s. (APMA-B, neg. no. 22522/1). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  30. Documents and photographs Photograph showing the tattooed numbers on the arms of mother and son. (APMA-B, neg. no. 22522/2). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  31. Documents and photographs Anna Polshchikova, born September 1, 1919, Auschwitz prisoner number 75560, with her son Viktor. Born in Auschwitz on October 15, 1944, Viktor was registered as prisoner number 199784. Anna was sent to Auschwitz on February 22, 1944 in a mass transport from a prison in Vienna, where she had been sent as a slave laborer. Mother and son were in Auschwitz until liberation on January 27, 1945. See Anna’s memoir on p. 48. Photograph taken in Yalta after returning from the camp. (APMA-B, neg. no. 21621/5). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  32. Documents and photographs Original prisoner tag with the camp number of the child Viktor. Hismother, Anna Polshchikova, was required to sew it on the infant’s nightshirt. (APMA-B, neg. no. 21621/4). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  33. Documents and photographs A kilim rug that prisoner Anna Polshchikova salvaged from Auschwitz at liberation. She wrapped her son Viktor in it when leaving the camp. She donated the kilim to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in 1995. (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Collections). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  34. Documents and photographs Certificate issued by the Soviet military repatriation point in Cracowon February 27, 1945 to former Auschwitz prisoner Anna Polshchikova, who was returning to her home in Yalta, together with her sonViktor, born in the camp. Source: APMA-B, Mat./1784, vol. 255, p. 159. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  35. Documents and photographs Kazimiera Bogdańska with her daughter Anna, who was born inAuschwitz. The mother was deported there in a transport of civilians following the start of the Warsaw Uprising and registered as number84224. She was in the seventh month of pregnancy at the time, and gave birth to Anna on October 26, 1944. Mother and daughter werein Auschwitz until liberation on January 27, 1945. Photograph taken in Włochy, outside Warsaw, in the autumn of 1945. (APMA-B,neg. no. 22 846/2). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  36. Documents and photographs Original prisoner tags stamped with the numbers of Kazimiera Bogdańska and her daughter Anna. Donated to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum by Anna Bogdańska in 2003. (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Collections). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  37. Documents and photographs Official birth certificate (Geburtsurkunde) of Auschwitz prisoner Anna Bogdańska, born October 26, 1944, issued by the camp Civil Registry Office (Standesamt II). The document is deliberately misleading as to the place of birth. Instead of the camp, it lists the name of the city and the street address, “Auschwitz, Kasernenstrasse.” Similar deception measures appear on death certificates. Source: APMA-B, Geburtsurkunde Fond, D-AuI – 2/3, vol. 1, p. 3. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  38. Documents and photographs Wanda Dramińska, born April 18, 1923. She was sent to Auschwitz along with her husband and other relatives in a civilian transport from Warsaw on August 12, 1944, following the start of the Warsaw Uprising. She was registered as number 85374. She was in the third month of pregnancy when she arrived at the camp. She was liberated at Auschwitz and subsequently taken to Cracow, where she gave birth to her daughter Ewa. Her husband Jerzy died on January 19, 1945 in Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, where he was transferred from Auschwitz. Photograph taken after the war. (APMA-B, neg. no. 22 572/3). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  39. Documents and photographs Ewa Dramińska, born February 16, 1945 in the St. Lazarus Hospital in Cracow, where her mother, an Auschwitz prisoner, was taken immediatelyafter the liberation of the camp. Photograph taken after the war. (APMA-B, neg. no. 22 572/4). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  40. Documents and photographs Alina Cielemięcka-Naciążek, born September 9, 1922. On September 4, 1944, while in the fourth month of pregnancy, she was sent to Auschwitz in a transport of civilians from Warsaw following the start of the Uprising. Her camp number was 87947. During the evacuation march, she escaped on January 20 in the vicinity of Jastrzębie, where local residents concealed her and three other pregnant prisoners until the liberation of the area on March 28, 1945. In the meantime, on March 19, 1945, she gave birth to her daughter Lidia. Photograph taken in 1947. (APMA-B, neg. no. 22 573/2). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  41. Documents and photographs List of former Auschwitz prisoners liberated on January 27, 1945 and moved in February to the Polish Red Cross Hospital in Brzeszcze. Mothers with children born in the camp figure on the list. Krystyna Zambrzycka-Stempkowska’s name can be seen at number 14. See the account on p. 59. Source: APMA-B, PCK/12, folder 6, p. 20. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  42. Documents and photographs Death certificate of the Russian infant Vladimir Yakovenko, a formerAuschwitz prisoner born in the camp, who died in the Polish Red Cross Hospital set up after liberation on the grounds of the AuschwitzI camp. Source: APMA-B, PCK/8, vol. 2, p. 235. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  43. Documents and photographs Hans Nierzwicki – SS Unterscharführer, born January 18, 1905, a member of the Auschwitz garrison from July 17, 1942 to January 18, 1945. His posts included SS orderly in the Birkenau camp. At the camp hospital outpatient clinic in the women’s camp, he administered lethal injections of phenol to pregnant women, new mothers, and newborn infants. After the war, because of poor health, he was not included among those charged in the Auschwitz Trials at Frankfurt am Main in 1963. (APMA-B, neg. no. 20917/14). International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

  44. Documents and photographs From left: Richard Baer (camp commandant from May 1944 to January1945), Josef Mengele, Rudolf Höss (camp commandant from May 1940 to November 1943). This photograph was taken in the summer of 1944 at Międzybrodzie (a rest centerfor the Auschwitz garrison, not far from Oświęcim) and comes from the collectionsof the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim tel. + 48 33 844 8063, fax. + 48 33 843 19 34 www. auschwitz.org.en

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