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Personal Milestones during the Holocaust

Birthday in Auschwitz

Illustrated birthday card made by three camp inmates for their friend in January 1945

"8.1.1945". Three prisoners stand together and laugh

"8.1.1945". Three prisoners stand together and laugh

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After Auschwitz was liberated, former prisoner Ben Kolton found an illustrated greeting card on a pile of debris in the camp. He took the card, and safeguarded it for decades. In 1983, the card was donated to Yad Vashem. It is dated 8 January 1945, just days before the evacuation of the camp's prisoners on the death marches, and is addressed to a prisoner who turned 33 on 8 January.

View the illustrated birthday card, and read about the research that led to the identification of the card's creators and their friend >>

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