List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz

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This is a list of notable victims and survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp; that is, victims and survivors about whom a significant amount of independent secondary sourcing exists. This list represents only a very small portion of the 1.1 million victims and survivors of Auschwitz and is not intended to be viewed as a representative or exhaustive count by any means.

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Victims[]

Male victims are signified by a  Pale Turquoise  background. Female victims are signified by a Light Pink  background.

Name Born Died Age Ethnicity Notability
Estella Agsteribbe April 6, 1909 September 17, 1943 34 Jewish Gymnast. Member of the Gold medal winning Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[1]
Heinz Alt 1922 January 6, 1945 22 or 23 Jewish Composer. Deported from Theresienstadt concentration camp to Auschwitz on September 28, 1944.[2]
February 28, 1943 c. October 15, 1944 1 Jewish Son of Karel Ančerl and Valy Ančerl. Born while parents were in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
1908 c. October 15, 1944 36 Jewish Wife of Karel Ančerl, who was also at Auschwitz, but survived.
1881 September 4, 1941 59 Polish Noble.
Norbert Barlicki June 6, 1880 September 27, 1941 61 Polish Lawyer, publicist, and politician.
February 23, 1894 October 10, 1941 47 Polish Noble. Was a member of the Polish Ministry of Commerce and Industrial Affairs before war broke out. Belonged to the first group of people to organise the underground fight.
René Blum March 13, 1878 c. September 1942 64 Jewish Choreographer, founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra; brother of Léon Blum. Transferred to the camp on September 23, 1942.[3]
Hana Brady May 16, 1931 October 23, 1944 13 Jewish Arrived at the camp on October 23, 1944, and was gassed immediately.[4]
December 14, 1899 May 14, 1944 44 Czechoslovakian Businessman from Prague.[5]
Rosette Wolczak March 19, 1928 November 23, 1943 15 French Jewish Deported from Switzerland for "immorality".
Bronisław Czech July 25, 1908 June 4, 1944 35 Polish Skier – 24 times Polish champion, and participant of Winter Olympics of 1928, 1932 and 1936; soldier of Armia Krajowa.
Lea Deutsch[6][7] March 18, 1927 May 1943 16 Jewish Child actress. Born Jewish, converted to Roman Catholicism with her family in June 1941 as an attempt by her father to save the family from certain death, but still considered Jewish by Nazi racial laws. Died in the cattle wagon routed to Auschwitz.
[8][9] 1896 March 12, 1943 47 Jewish Among last Jewish employees to leave Berlin. Put on train to Auschwitz on March 12, 1943; poisoned herself in transit.
Benjamin Fondane[10] November 14, 1898 October 2, 1944 45 Jewish Poet, critic, existentialist philosopher and author.
1892 1944 52 Jewish Sister of Benjamin Fondane.
Miroslav Šalom Freiberger[11][12] January 9, 1903 May 8, 1943 40 Jewish Head Rabbi of Jewish Municipality of Zagreb, catechist, translator, writer and spiritual leader, educated in law and theology science. On last transport of Jews from Croatia. Killed at camp entrance when he protested against the inhumane procedure that was implemented against the members of his community.
Kurt Gerron May 11, 1897 October 28, 1944 47 Jewish Actor and film director; was either persuaded or coerced[13] by the Nazis to make a propaganda film showing how humane the conditions were at Theresienstadt concentration camp. After filming finished, he was deported on the final transport ever to Auschwitz, on October 28, 1944, and was gassed immediately.
Dora Gerson[14] March 23, 1899 February 14, 1943 43 Jewish Cabaret singer and silent-film actress.
Petr Ginz February 1, 1928 September 28, 1944 16 Jewish Writer. Esperantist.
Ala Gertner[15][16] March 12, 1912 January 5, 1945 32 Jewish Smuggled gunpowder into the camp to help the Sonderkommando blow up Crematorium IV during an October 7, 1944 revolt. Tortured and eventually executed by hanging along with her three conspirators, the last public hanging at Auschwitz.
Roza Robota[15][17] 1921 January 5, 1945 23 Jewish Smuggled gunpowder into the camp to help the Sonderkommando blow up Crematorium IV during an October 7, 1944 revolt. Tortured and eventually executed by hanging along with her three conspirators, the last public hanging at Auschwitz.
Regina Safirsztajn[15][17] 1915 January 5, 1945 30 Smuggled gunpowder into the camp to help the Sonderkommando blow up Crematorium IV during an October 7, 1944 revolt. Tortured and eventually executed by hanging along with her three conspirators, the last public hanging at Auschwitz.
Pavel Haas[18] June 21, 1899 October 17, 1944 45 Jewish Composer. After arrival at the camp, Josef Mengele was about to send Karel Ančerl to the gas chamber, but weakened Haas, who stood next to him, began to cough and the death sentence was therefore chosen for him instead.
Jane Haining June 6, 1897 August 16, 1944 47 Scottish Scottish missionary working in Hungary since 1932. Arrested by the Nazis in 1944 on charges of espionage and working among Jews while trying to save young Jewish girls. Arrested and sent to prisons in Fő utca and Buda, and then sent to Auschwitz in May 1944, where she was tattooed as prisoner 79467.
Ivana Hirschmann[19][20] May 5, 1866 May 8, 1943 77 Jewish Croatian first female professor of gymnastics.
Hans Krása November 30, 1899 October 17, 1944 44 Jewish Composer; helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Viktor Ullmann January 1, 1898 October 18, 1944 46 Jewish Composer, conductor, pianist, teacher, music critic, active in Prague. Deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on September 8, 1942, where he helped to organize cultural life. Transferred to Auschwitz on October 16, 1944.
Rafael Schächter May 25, 1905 January 1945 39 Jewish Composer, pianist and conductor. Helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Died on the death march.
Etty Hillesum January 15, 1914 November 30, 1943 29 Jewish Diarist and writer.
Lilli Jahn March 5, 1900 c. June 19, 1944 44 Jewish Doctor who gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her letters to her five children which she wrote during her imprisonment in the labor camp Breitenau.
Regina Jonas August 3, 1902 October 12 or
December 12, 1944 		42 Jewish First ordained female rabbi in Germany, rabbi at Neue Synagoge in Berlin, killed two months after entering the camp.
Itzhak Katzenelson July 1, 1886 May 1, 1944 57 Jewish Teacher, poet, dramatist; his son Zvi Katzenelson was on the same transport and was killed the same day as Itzhak.
Peter Kien January 1, 1919 c. October 16, 1944 25 Jewish Artist, poet and librettist active in Theresienstadt concentration camp (Terezin), died from infectious disease soon after arrival to Auschwitz on October 16. Wife and parents were on same transport and were killed.
Bereck Kofman October 10, 1900 1943 42 Jewish Hasidic orthodox rabbi, deported to Auschwitz from Drancy internment camp on Convoy No. 12 on July 29, 1942. According to survivor, he was at the camp for one year before his murder by a Kapo on a Shabbat because he refused to work. He was beaten up with a pickax and buried alive. Father of French philosopher Sarah Kofman.[21]
Saint Maximilian Kolbe January 8, 1894 August 14, 1941 47 Polish Saint. Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of Polish Army Sergeant Franciszek Gajowniczek, who was a stranger to him.
Gertrud Kolmar December 10, 1894 March 1943 48 Jewish Writer, used the pen name of Gertrud Kolmar (born Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner).
[22] First husband of Stephanie Helbrun (married 1942). Deported to the camp with his wife in December 1943. Threw himself on the electric wire surrounding the camp in 1944.
Tobias Jakobovits November 23, 1887 October 29, 1944 56 Jewish Rabbi, Czech librarian, and historian of Czech-Jewish culture
Rutka Laskier 1929 1943 14 Jewish Teenager who wrote a diary. Her writings were posthumously published. Dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank".
June 7, 1883 August 13, 1942 59 Jewish Rabbi. He was deported on Convoy No. 8 to the camp on July 20, 1942.
Rudolf Levy July 15, 1875 January 1944 68 Jewish Painter and student of Henri Matisse.
1942 Polish Noble.
Donat Makijonek May 19, 1890 June 18, 1941[23] 51 Polish World War I ace; KZ Number 16301.
Bernard Natan July 14, 1886 October 1942 56 Jewish Film director and actor and former head of Pathé Film Studios. Arrived at the camp on September 25, 1942 and was killed several weeks later.
Irène Némirovsky[24][25] February 11, 1903 August 17, 1942 39 Jewish Novelist. She was classified as a Jew under the Nazi racial laws, which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism.[24][25]
[26] November 6, 1942 Husband of Irène Némirovsky. Arrived on November 6, 1942, and was gassed immediately.
Józef Noji September 8, 1909 February 15, 1943 33 Polish Track and field athlete and participant of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Murdered by the camp's SS guard, allegedly for trying to smuggle a letter.
Felix Nussbaum December 11, 1904 August 9, 1944 39 Jewish Painter (surrealist). Entire family was eventually killed at the camp at different times, with the exception of one brother, who died from exhaustion at Stutthof in December 1944.
Karl Pärsimägi May 11, 1902 July 27, 1942 40 Estonian Painter (Fauvist). Unknown circumstances as to why he was sent to Auschwitz. It may have been his sexuality, or possibly because he was aiding the Resistance, or helping hide Jewish friends.[27]
Saint Grigol Peradze September 13, 1899 December 6, 1942 43 Georgian Saint. Priest, ecclesiastic figure, theologian, historian, Archimandrite, PhD of History, professor.
Roman Rybarski July 3, 1887 March 6, 1942 54 Polish Economist, historian and politician connected with the right-wing National Democracy political camp. Executed by shooting for organizing the resistance movement in the camp.[28]
Erich Salomon April 28, 1886 July 7, 1944 58 Jewish Photographer (news).
Malva Schalek February 18, 1882 March 24, 1945 63 Jewish Painter. Was transported to the camp on May 18, 1944 and was killed soon afterwards.
Mommie Schwarz July 28, 1876 November 19, 1942 66 Jewish Painter. Killed with his wife Else Berg.
Otto Selz February 14, 1881 August 27, 1943 62 Jewish Psychologist and professor, formulated the first nonassociationist theory of thinking, in 1913.[29][30][31] Was transported to the camp on August 24, 1943.[31]
Lavoslav Singer 1866 1942 76 Jewish Known Bjelovar industrialist.[32][33][34]
Saint Edith Stein October 12, 1891 August 9, 1942 50 German Saint. Philosopher and nun. Born into a Jewish family, considered a "Catholic Jew" (of Jewish heritage, but baptized and practiced Catholicism, considered Jewish by Nazi racial laws).[35]
Chaim Rumkowski[36] February 27, 1877 August 28, 1944 67 Jewish Nazi-appointed head of the Judenrat while he lived in the Łódź Ghetto in Poland. He was known to abuse his power, such as by molesting young Jewish women within the ghetto.[36] Family was also killed at the camp.
Carlo Taube[37] July 4, 1897 October 1, 1944 47 Jewish Composer, conductor and pianist. From Galicia, active in Prague. Taube, his wife Erika and their child were deported from Prague to Theresienstadt concentration camp on December 10, 1941. They were deported to Auschwitz on October 1, 1944, where all three were killed immediately.[37]
Erika Taube[37] 1913 October 1, 1944 30 Jewish Wife of Carlo Taube.
Tadeusz Tański[38] March 11, 1892 March 23, 1941 49 Polish Automobile engineer and the designer of the first Polish serially-built automobile, the CWS T-1. Arrested on July 3, 1940, and sent to the camp.
[39] Jewish Father of Gisella Perl. Brought his prayer book into the gas chamber.
Barend Dresden-Polak[40] May 14, 1908 November 30, 1944 36 Jewish Husband of Anna Dresden-Polak and father of Eva Dresden, both of whom were killed at Sobibor on July 23, 1943.
Estusia Wajcblum[15][17] January 5, 1945 Smuggled gunpowder into the camp to help the Sonderkommando blow up Crematorium IV during an October 7, 1944 revolt. Tortured and eventually executed by hanging along with her three conspirators, the last public hanging at Auschwitz.
[41] October 25, 1915 February 28, 1943 27 Jewish Daughter of Han Hollander and Leentje Hollander-Smeer, both of whom were killed at Sobibor on July 9, 1943.
1876 or 1877 May 3, 1941 64 Polish Noble.
Jan Mosdorf May 30, 1904 October 11, 1943 39 Polish Right-wing politician, director of the nationalist organization All-Polish Youth and member of political party National Radical Camp. Killed for helping Jews in the camp.
Árpád Weisz April 16, 1896 January 31, 1944 47 Jewish Football (soccer) player and manager.
1905 May 1944 39 Jewish Mother of Elie Wiesel. Gassed immediately.
May 1944 Jewish Younger sister of Elie Wiesel. Gassed immediately.
Mala Zimetbaum January 26, 1922 September 15, 1944 22 Jewish Deported to the camp on Transport #10 on September 15, 1942. Inmate #19880. Her proficiency in several languages allowed her to work as an interpreter in the camp. Publicly executed at the camp after an escape attempt, with her lover, Edward Galiński.
Edward Galiński May 10, 1923 September 15, 1944 21 Polish Publicly executed at the camp after an escape attempt, with his lover, Mala Zimetbaum.
Eddy Hamel[42] October 21, 1902 April 30, 1943 40 Jewish (American) American soccer right winger (AFC Ajax).
Rosa Stallbaumer November 30, 1897 November 23, 1942 45 Jewish Wife of ; both were members of the Austrian Resistance.[43]
Horst Rosenthal August 10, 1915 September 11, 1942 27 Jewish German-born French cartoonist of Jewish descent; detained in the Gurs internment camp in Vichy France on 28 October 1940; transferred to Auschwitz on 11 September 1942 and executed on the same day; best known for his comic book Mickey au Camp de Gurs he created while held in Gurs.

Survivors[]

Name # Born Died Age Ethnicity Imprisoned Notability
A27633 September 10, 1938 83 Jewish Friedman is among the youngest people to survive the Nazi Holocaust[46]
Helen Lewis June 22, 1916 December 31, 2009 93 Jewish May 1944
– January 1945 		Dancer who trained in Prague. Left Auschwitz on a forced march to Stutthof concentration camp in January 1945.[47]
November 5, 1923 97 Jewish Author
Władysław Bartoszewski 4427 February 19, 1922 April 24, 2015 93 Polish September 22, 1940
– April 8, 1941 		Member of Armia Krajowa. Released from camp due to actions by Polish Red Cross. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (twice) after 1989.
Tadeusz Borowski November 12, 1922 July 1, 1951 28 Polish 1943–late 1944 Writer. Transferred to Natzweiler-Struthof, then to Dachau concentration camp; committed suicide after the war.
George Brady February 9, 1928 January 11, 2019 93 Jewish October 23, 1944
– January 18, 1945 		Plumber. Sent on the death march; escaped when a Soviet tank blew a hole in the building he was in. His mother, father and sister Hana were gassed at the camp.
Boris Braun[48][49][50] August 20, 1920 January 11, 2019 101 Jewish 1943
– January 17, 1945 		University professor. His mother and father were killed during the Holocaust. Sent on the death march.
Yehuda Bacon July 28, 1929 alive 92 Jewish December 1943
– January 18, 1945 		Artist. Sent on the death march. His father was gassed in June 1944; his mother and his sister Hanna were deported to Stutthof concentration camp, where they died a few weeks before its liberation.
March 29, 1927 alive 94 Jewish October 1943
– January, 1945 		Carpenter. His brother was gassed in December 1943. His parents were tortured to death during the Holocaust. [51]
Bat-Sheva Dagan 45554 September 8, 1925 alive 96 Jewish May 1943
– January 1945 		Kindergarten teacher, psychologist, author. Worked in camp infirmary and in the "Canada" commando. Survived death march to Ravensbrück and Malchow concentration camps in January 1945, and death march to Lübz, where she was liberated on May 2, 1945.[52]
Dario Gabbai[53] 182,568 September 2, 1922 March 25, 2020 Jewish (Greek) April 1944
– January 18, 1945 		Member of Sonderkommando. Family was killed at the camp. Sent on the death march.
Jerzy Bielecki 243 28 March 1921 October 20, 2011 90 Polish Political prisoner. Suffered hanging torture (arms hung behind back).
Józef Paczyński[53] 121 January 20, 1920 April 26, 2015 95 Polish June 1940
– January 18, 1945 		Political prisoner. About every 1 1/2 weeks, he was ordered to cut the hair of the camp's commanding officer, Rudolf Höss. Personally witnessed gassings from nearby.[36]
Kazimierz Piechowski[53] 918 October 3, 1919 December 15, 2017 98 Polish June 20, 1940
– June 20, 1942 		Imprisoned because the boy scouts were labeled a criminal organization. Deported to camp on second transport from Tarnów. On June 20, 1942, he escaped from Auschwitz I along with 3 other prisoners.[54][55]
[55] 6438 January 1, 1921 July 12, 1943 22 Polish – June 20, 1942 Veteran of Invasion of Poland in rank of first lieutenant, from Warsaw. On June 20, 1942, he escaped from Auschwitz.[54][55]
[55] 3419 1916 Polish – June 20, 1942 Priest, from Wadowice. On June 20, 1942, he escaped from Auschwitz.[54][55]
[55] 8502 1 January 1921 7 July 1988 67 Ukrainian – June 20, 1942 Auto mechanic, from Chortkiv. On June 20, 1942, he escaped from Auschwitz.[54][55]
Kazimierz Smoleń[53] 1327 April 19, 1920 January 27, 2012 91 Polish July 1940– January 18, 1945 Political prisoner. Sent on the death march.
August Kowalczyk[53] August 15, 1921 July 29, 2012 90 Polish Political prisoner.
[36] Russian Prisoner of war.
[36] Polish Political prisoner.
[36] Jewish 1942 Deported from holding camp near Bratislava.
Eddy de Wind 27903 February 6, 1916 September 27, 1987 71 Jewish 1943
– January 1945 		Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author who served as a "haftling" doctor in the Auschwitz main camp. He coined the phrase 'concentration camp syndrome', now more generally referred to as 'survivor's guilt' and 'post-traumatic stress disorder'.[56] His memoir, ‘Last Stop Auschwitz’ is the only survivor testimony written in Auschwitz. It was written in Dutch and published in 1946 as “Eindstation Auschwitz. Mijn verhaal vanuit het kamp (1943–1945)” An English translation was published in 2020.
[36] Jewish July 1942
[36] Jewish From Trnava. Forced to dig mass graves and exhume corpses. His mother and father were killed at the camp.
[57] Jewish Worked in the "Canada" sector of the camp. Witnessed rapes of women by the camp's officers.
[57] Jewish Worked in the "Canada" sector of the camp. An SS officer, Franz Wunch, fell in love with her. As a result, Wunch would later save Helena's sister from the gas chambers, although her sister's son and daughter could not be saved.
[57] Polish Political prisoner. Served as a waiter at the SS canteen in the camp.
[57] Jewish Witnessed crimes committed by Irma Grese.
Eva Mozes Kor[57][58] A7063 January 31, 1935 July 4, 2019 84 Jewish 1944
– January 27, 1945 		One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Both of her parents and two older sisters were killed at the camp; only Miriam and herself survived. Founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
Miriam Mozes[58] A7064 January 31, 1935 June 6, 1993 58 Jewish 1944
– January 27, 1945 		Eva's twin sister. One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Mengele injected Miriam with a chemical that stopped the growth of her kidneys; later, Eva donated one of her kidneys.
Jona Laks[58] A27700 1930 alive Jewish (Polish) August 1944
– May 8, 1945 		One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Sent on the death march with her twin sister Miriam (A27725).
[58] One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments.
[58] One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments.
Helen Rappaport[58] One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments.
[58] Jewish One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments.
[59] Jewish One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. From Berettyóújfalu. Emigrated to United States in 1947, name changed to "George".
[59] Jewish One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. From Berettyóújfalu. Emigrated to United States in 1947, name changed to "Leslie".
[60] A-2459 1940 alive Jewish 1944
– January 27, 1945 		One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Known at the camp as "Josef "Peipchek" Klineman". Born in Prague.
[60] A-4931 1940 Jewish 1944
– January 27, 1945 		Peter's twin. One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Born in Prague.
[61] A-5723 1923 or 1924 April 19, 1965 40 Jewish May 28, 1944
– January 1945 		One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Born in Turţ. First deported to Vynohradiv ghetto on April 14, 1944.
[61] A-5724 1923 or 1924 April 22, 1996 71 Jewish May 28, 1944
– January 1945 		One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Born in Turţ. First deported to Vynohradiv ghetto on April 14, 1944.
Peter Somogyi[62] A-17454 April 14, 1933 alive Jewish July 9, 1944
– January 27, 1945 		One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. From Pécs. Their mother and older sister (14 years) were gassed at Auschwitz at arrival.
[62] A-17455 April 14, 1933 alive Jewish July 9, 1944
– January 27, 1945 		One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. From Pécs.
[22] February 4, 1924 alive Jewish December 1943
– January 18, 1945 		One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Born in Subotica, lived in Prague until 1939. Escaped on the death march. Their parents and sister were killed in various camps.
[22] February 4, 1924 alive Jewish December 1943
– January 18, 1945 		One of the "Mengele twins" who was selected and used for involuntary medical experiments. Born in Subotica, lived in Prague until 1939. Escaped on the death march.
[22] Met Annetta Helbrun when both were assigned to a commando loading corpses. Later married Annetta in 1948.
[62] 1915 1993 78 – January 27, 1945 Assigned to supervise twins used in the medical experiments of Josef Mengele. Saved children from the gas chamber on several occasions. After the camp's liberation, he took 157 Mengele twins and homeless children to safety in Hungary. 29 years old in 1944.
Miklós Nyiszli[57] June 17, 1901 May 5, 1956 54 Jewish June 1944
– January 18, 1945 		Prisoner, and doctor (pathologist) who served Josef Mengele. Sent on the death march.
[57] Polish Political prisoner.
[63] 22 January 1923 17 July 2008 80 Polish Political prisoner.
[63] 1920 alive Jewish
Alice Lok Cahana[63] February 7, 1929 November 28, 2017 88 Jewish 1944 Deported from Sárvár. Abstract painter.
Morris Venezia[63] February 25, 1921 September 2, 2013 92 Jewish April 11, 1944
– ? 		Part of the Sonderkommando. "Watch Full Testimony" on YouTube
[63] 1927 2012 85 Romanian Survived because he was transferred to another camp. His mother was killed at the camp.
[63] March 20, 1924 alive Polish Political prisoner.
Henryk Mandelbaum[63] 181970 December 15, 1922 June 17, 2008 85 Jewish April 22, 1944
– January 18, 1945 		Part of Sonderkommando. Fled on a death march.
[63] October 24, 1924 Jewish
Lucille Eichengreen[36] February 1, 1925 February 7, 2020 96 Jewish August 1943
– October 1944 		From Hamburg. Deported to Łódź Ghetto on October 26, 1941, where she was molested by Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. Remained there for two years until deported to Auschwitz. Transferred to Neuengamme concentration camp.
Witold Pilecki 4859 May 13, 1901 May 25, 1948 47 Polish September 22, 1940
– April 26, 1943 		Soldier and secret agent ("Tomasz Serafiński"). He volunteered to be imprisoned at Auschwitz (the only person known to do so) for a Polish resistance operation in order to gather intelligence and escape. As the author of the Witold's report, the first intelligence report on Auschwitz, his operation enabled the Polish government-in-exile to convince the Allies that the Holocaust was taking place. Later executed by communists.
Elie Wiesel[63] A-7713 September 30, 1928 July 2, 2016 87 Jewish May 17, 1944
– January 1945 		Writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1986). His mother and younger sister are gassed immediately. Transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, where Wiesel's father, Shlomo, was beaten[64] and killed.[65] Two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice, survive.
Renée Firestone[66] April 13, 1924 alive Jewish Her sister was killed at the camp during medical experiments.
Samuel Pisar[67][68] March 18, 1929 July 27, 2015 86 Jewish Lawyer, writer. His parents and younger sister Frieda were killed during the war. Transferred to Dachau concentration camp. Escaped during a death march.[67]
Karel Ančerl[69] April 11, 1908 July 3, 1973 65 Jewish October 15, 1944 Conductor. Josef Mengele was about to send Ančerl to the gas chamber, but a weakened Pavel Haas, who stood next to him, began to cough and the death sentence was therefore chosen for him instead. Helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Gisella Perl[39][70] December 10, 1907 December 16, 1988 81 Jewish 1944 Gynecologist. Forced to be an inmate doctor. Saved the lives of hundreds of pregnant women by aborting their pregnancies (pregnant women were often killed for experiments by Josef Mengele).
Rudolf Vrba[71] 44070 September 11, 1924 March 27, 2006 81 Jewish June 30, 1942
– April 7, 1944 		Scientist. Escaped from the camp. Co-author of the Vrba-Wetzler report, delivered to the Allies, which saved the lives of an estimated 120 to 200 thousand Jews. Testified against Adolf Eichmann at Eichmann's trial.
Eugeniusz Hejka 608 October 16, 1918 2009 90 Polish June 14, 1940
– November 1940 		Polish-Catholic soldier punished as an eleventh for escape of Tadeusz Wiejowski, survived.
Alfréd Wetzler[71] 29162 May 10, 1918 February 8, 1988 69 Jewish 1942
– April 7, 1944 		Escaped from the camp. Co-author of the Vrba-Wetzler report, delivered to the Allies, which saved the lives of an estimated 120 to 200 thousand Jews.
[72] Served under Josef Mengele as his subject, witnessing many of Mengele's human medical experiments.
Wieslaw Kielar August 12, 1912 June 1, 1990 77 Polish (non-Jewish)[73] Author of the autobiographical novel Anus Mundi: 5 Years in Auschwitz.
Primo Levi 174517 July 31, 1919 April 11, 1987 67 Jewish (Italian) February 21, 1944
– January 18, 1945 		Was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems.
Anne Frank June 12, 1929 February or March 1945 15 Jewish (German) September 3, 1944
– October 28, 1944 		Teenage diarist from Amsterdam, held 7 weeks at Auschwitz, transferred to Bergen-Belsen where she died of Typhus.
Eva Brewster December 28, 1922 December 3, 2004 81 Jewish (German) April 1943
– January 1945 		Author of Vanished in Darkness – An Auschwitz Memoir.
Sigmund Sobolewski 88 May 11, 1923 August 7, 2017 94 Polish June 14, 1940
– November 7, 1944 		Immortalized in the book Prisoner 88: The Man in Stripes.
Thomas Buergenthal May 11, 1934 alive 87 Jewish Human rights champion, former judge of the International Court of Justice, author of A Lucky Child, interned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sachsenhausen.
Józef Cyrankiewicz 62933 April 23, 1911 January 20, 1989 77 Polish September 4, 1942
– ? 		Later Prime Minister of Poland and Chairman of the Polish Council of State.
Yehiel De-Nur 135633 May 16, 1909 July 17, 2001 92 Jewish Writer.
Robert Desnos July 4, 1900 June 8, 1945 44 French French surrealist poet. Died of typhoid in Theresienstadt.
Lale Sokolov 32407 1916 October 31, 2006 90 Jewish April 23, 1942 – Camp Tätowierer (tattooist)
  • Lucie Adelsberger (1895–1971), German-Jewish physician
  • Leo Bretholz, (March 6, 1921 – March 8, 2014) Austrian Jew who escaped from train en route, author of Leap into Darkness (1998).
  • Tadeusz Debski, (1921–2011) Polish survivor, oldest person to receive a doctorate degree at University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Laure Diebold,(10 January 1915 – 17 October 1965) French resistant, Compagnon de la Libération.
  • Xawery Dunikowski, (24 December 1875 – 26 January 1964) Polish sculptor and artist, best known for his Neo-Romantic sculptures and Auschwitz-inspired art, survived.
  • Kurt Epstein, (January 29, 1904 – February 1, 1975) Czechoslovak Jewish Olympic water polo competitor
  • Hans Frankenthal,(July 15, 1926 – December 22, 1999) German-Jewish author, survived.
  • Viktor Frankl,(26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) Austrian-Jewish neurologist and psychiatrist, survived.
  • Hédi Fried,(born 15 June 1924) Hungarian-Jewish (from Sighet), author of The Road to Auschwitz: Fragments of a Life, survived.
  • Franciszek Gajowniczek,(15 November 1901 – 13 March 1995) Polish Army Sergeant whose life was spared when Maximilian Kolbe took his place. Survived and died in 1995.
  • Józef Garliński, Polish best selling writer who wrote numerous books in both English and Polish on Auschwitz and World War II, including the best selling 'Fighting Auschwitz'. Survived and died in 2005.
  • Leon Greenman,(18 December 1910 – 7 March 2008) British anti-fascism campaigner. Survived and died in 2008.
  • ,(1920-2003) Hungarian born Jew, who was placed in Auschwitz I block 6 and worked in the Kanada I section. Subject of the biography Sacred Games by Gerald Jacobs. Unusual as he was in labour, concentration and death camps before being liberated.
  • Magda Herzberger, (February 20, 1926 – April 23, 2021) Romanian-Jewish author and poet, survived.
  • Joseph Friedenson, (1922–2013) Polish-Jewish (from Łódź), editor of Dos Yiddishe Vort, survived.
  • Hugo Gryn (25 June 1930 – 18 August 1996), senior rabbi, London.
  • Adélaïde Hautval, (1 January 1906 – 17 October 1988) French psychiatrist who refused to cooperate with medical experimentation at Auschwitz.[74]
  • Stefan Jaracz, (24 December 1883 – 11 August 1945) Polish actor and theater director who survived camp but died of Tuberculosis in 1945.
  • Imre Kertész, (9 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) Hungarian writer, Nobel Laureate in Literature for 2002.
  • Stanisław Kętrzyński,(10 September 1878– 26 May 1950) Polish historian and diplomat.
  • Gertrude "Traute" Kleinová, (August 13, 1918 – April 9, 1976) Czechoslovak Jew, 3-time table tennis world champion.
  • Antoni Kocjan, (12 August 1902 – 13 August 1944) Polish glider constructor and a contributor to the intelligence services of the Polish Home Army. Murdered by Gestapo in 1944.
  • Rena Kornreich Gelissen, (24 August 1920 – 8 August 2006) Polish-Jewish (born in Tyliczi), author of Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz, survived.
  • Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, (10 August 1889 – 9 April 1968) Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter, co-founder the wartime Polish organization Żegota. Released through the efforts of the .
  • Henri Landwirth, (March 7, 1927 – April 16, 2018) Belgian philanthropist and founder of Give Kids the World (survived).
  • Joel Lebowitz, (born May 10, 1930) Mathematical Physicist. Survived. Honors include the Boltzmann Medal, Henri Poincaré Prize, and Max Planck Medal.
  • Olga Lengyel, (19 October 1908 – 15 April 2001) Hungarian-Jewish author of Five Chimneys (1946), survived.
  • Curt Lowens, (17 November 1925 – 8 May 2017) German-Jewish actor and resistant, survived.
  • Arnošt Lustig, (21 December 1926 – 26 February 2011) Czechoslovak and later Czech Jewish writer and novelist, the Holocaust is his lifelong theme, survived.
  • Branko Lustig,(10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) Croatian-American film producer.[75]
  • Filip Müller, (1922 –2013) inmate no. 29236, survivor and author of Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers (1979).
  • Alfred "Artem" Nakache (1915 – 1983) French swimmer, world record (200-m breaststroke), one-third of French 2x world record (3x100 relay team), imprisoned in Auschwitz, where his wife and daughter were killed.
  • Igor Newerly, (1903–1987), Polish novelist and educator.
  • Bernard Offen, (born 1929) Polish documentary filmmaker working in Poland and the United States to create .
  • Ignacy Oziewicz, (1887–1966) Polish army officer, first commandant of Narodowe Sily Zbrojne
  • Lev Rebet, (1912–1957) Ukrainian nationalist ideologist.
  • Bernat Rosner (born 1932)Hungarian-Jewish lawyer, co-author of An uncommon friendship. Survived.
  • Vladek Spiegelman, (1906–1982) Father of Art Spiegelman, author of Maus. Vladek Spiegelmann was the central character in Maus.
  • Anja Spiegelman, (1912–1968) Mother of Art Spiegelman, author of Maus.
  • Józef Szajna, (1922–2008) Polish scenery designer, stage director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist.
  • Leon Schiller, (1887–1954) Polish theater and film director, critic and theoretician. He was also a composer and wrote theater and radio screenplays.
  • Sigmund Strochlitz (1916–2006), Polish-American activist, confidant of Eli Wiesel, and served on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council (1978–86)
  • Menachem Mendel Taub, (1923–2019) rabbi of Kaliv.
  • Jack Tramiel, (1928-2012). Polish-born businessman, founder of Commodore International. Rescued by the U.S. Army in April 1945.
  • Rose Van Thyn (1921–2010), Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck survivor who directed Holocaust education activities in her adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana.
  • Simone Veil, née Simone Annie Jacob (1927-2017), French politician, survived.
  • Shlomo Venezia, (1923–2012) Greek-Jewish (born in Thessaloniki), author of Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz, survived.
  • Rose Warfman (née Gluck), (1916–2016) a French nurse, member of the French Resistance.
  • Stanislaw Wygodzki, (1923–2012) Polish-Jewish author, survived.
  • , (1926–2017) Polish-Jewish was in Lodz ghetto and later transported to Auschwitz. Went to Sweden and then America.

See also[]

  • List of victims of Nazism

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