Victims who have been identified

David Pastel was born to Aharon and Gita (née Minsles) on the 15th of January 1901 in Stojanów, Tarnopol, Poland.Pastel, a tradesman, was married to Leonora and the family lived in the heart of the Jewish quarter of Paris at 17 Rue Pavée. Their son Aharon was born in 1932. Leonora and her son Aharon were French citizens

Norbert Freundlich was born in the village of Jastrow in Western Prussia, Germany on the 15th of July 1924. He was sent to the hachsharah (Aliyah preparation) and work camp Forsteinsatzlager Hasenfelde in Brandenburg where he was employed as a forester.On the 19th of April 1943 Freundlich was deported on Transport no. 37 from Berlin to Auschwitz. On the 20th of April, on arrival at Auschwitz he passed the selection, received the number 116947 and became an inmate of the camp.

Samuel Kops was born to Jacob and Sara (née Zwaaf) on the 29th of July 1916 in Amsterdam. He had a brother, Joseph, who was five years younger than him.In February 1941 his parents lived in Amsterdam at Waterlooplein 76 III. Samuel's family suffered from financial difficulties and so Samuel was placed into the care of the Dutch-Jewish orphanage for boys on the Amstell where he was raised and educated.

Walerian Lenczycki was born on the 15th of December 1901 in Warsaw, Poland. Lenczycki was sent to Auschwitz on the 6th of April 1941 on a transport that included 1,021 prisoners from Pawiak prison in Warsaw

David Urbach was born on the 22nd of August 1898 in Lodz, Poland.He married Chaya-Perla (née Fryser). Chaya was born on the 22nd of March 1902 in Klwow, Poland. The couple had two daughters, Rosa and Regine. The girls were born in Gera, Thüringen, Germany. Rosa was born on the 24th of February 1925 and Regine on the 24th of August 1927.

Samuel Horwitz was born on the 2nd of August 1907 in Amsterdam to Meir (b. Maastricht 1877) and Lina (née Vaas, b. Amsterdam 1881) Horwitz. Samuel had an elder brother Solomon (Shlomo), born on the 2nd of November 1904 and a younger sister Eva, born on the 8th of September 1909.Horwitz started work at a young age as a bank clerk at Rijksverzekeringsbank (the Dutch national insurance bank). He studied for many years in order to advance his professional career at the bank and became an account manager. He was an amateur athlete and a member of the Amsterdam athletics club; he also enjoyed drawing...

Yona (Jojne) Gostinski was born on the 17th of March 1917 in the village of Krośniewice, Lodz region, Poland to a large, traditional family.His parents, Eliyahu and Beylh owned a bakery, one of the five bakeries under Jewish ownership in the village. The family lived at 11 or 13 Kutnowska Street. Eliyahu and Beylh had a number of children: their eldest son Maniek was married to Ruti, another son named Hertzke was married to a girl from the village of Kowel; their other children were Yona, Yotka, Shmuel and Freida. All were murdered. Gostinski married in the Krośniewice Ghetto and had a son; his...

Jakub Cymermann was born to Chaim and Rachel in the city of Radom, Poland on the 13th of August 1892. Cymermann, a medic, was married to Mania-Maria (née Steinbock b. 25th July 1896), a teacher. On the 22nd of December 1922 their eldest son Henryk was born and their second son, Maurycy, was born on the 25th of June 1925. The family lived in Radom at 8 Nowogrodzka street.

Jeno Gabor was born on the 6th of April 1894 in Mezokovacshaza, a small city on the border between Hungary and Romania. He was a pharmacist and owned an independent pharmacy. Jeno was married to Aranka (née Spitzer, b. 1902), she was a house-wife and their daughter Judy was born on the 1st of November 1927. A short while before the Nazi occupation of Hungary, Judy began studying Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Budapest. She was apprehended together with her aunt Olga Gombus at Budapest train station on the way to visit her parents.

Aron Schelvis was born on the 29th of November 1925 in Amsterdam. A tailor, he lived in the city of Bussum at 26a Floralialaan together with Meijer Schelvis, a relative who was also a tailor. In summer 1942, Schelvis and his two brothers moved into their elder sister Margaretha's home. She was a seamstress and her husband Jozef Stodel was a tailor; they lived in Amsterdam at 50 I Afrikanerplein.

Jan Pluta was Polish and born in Zawiercie on the 31st of December 1909.

Albert (Avraham) Banet was born in Nancy in the Lorraine region of France on the 20th of September 1917. Banet, a tailor, held French citizenship and lived in Grenoble (South East France) at 5 Rue Voltaire.

Salomon Zurel was born to Mozes and Rebecca (née Vos) on the 18th of September 1922 in Amsterdam. Mozes and Rebecca had another two sons, the eldest Jacques, born in 1920 and the younger Isidor born in 1925. Salomon was the middle child. None of the sons married.The father of the family, Mozes, owned a radio shop. His eldest son Jacques was an upholsterer, Salomon worked as a printer and the youngest, Isidor, was an upholsterer's apprentice. In 1941 the family lived in Amsterdam at Mosplein 31 I.

Stanislaw Bronisz, a Polish farmer, was born on the 14th of October 1915 in Miedzeszyn in the Warsaw region.

Marc Weill was born on the 7th of October 1907 in the town Mourmelon le Grand in the Champagne region of the Marne department in France. It appears that he had a younger brother called Simon born in 1909. Weill, a builder, lived in Mourmelon le Grand and does not seem to have been a French citizen.

Bela Polgar was born on the 31st of August 1893 in Szekszard in southern Hungary. He lived in the town of Paks and was married to Julia (née Grunfeld). They were both doctors. Polgar was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on a transport that departed the Kistarcsa transit camp in Hungary on the 14th of July 1944. On arrival, he passed the selection, received the number 6050B and became an inmate of the camp. This was the final transport from Hungary that Adolf Eichmann sent of his own initiative. Among the deportees on this transport were many doctors whose deportation had been delayed until the last...

David Hauser was born on the 2nd of September 1929 in Fehérgyarmat, in the Szatmar region of Hungary.

Danillo Perluga was born on the 24th of January 1923 in Plewie, Yugoslavia. On the 5th of December Perluga was deported to Auschwitz from Flossenbürg concentration camp on a transport of prisoners of war.

On the 31st of August 1943, a Jewish prisoner named Jakob Grostkowski was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on a transport from Bochnia Ghetto and labor camp. On arrival he passed the selection, received the number 144260 and became an inmate of the camp.The TransportOn the 31st of August 1943 about 3000 Jews – men, women and children – were deported on an RSHA transport from the ghetto and labor camp in Bochnia to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Following the selection 280 men received the numbers 144183 – 144462 and 795 women received the numbers 57033 – 57827 and became inmates of the...

Aleksander Szulc, a Pole, was born on the 25th of February 1909 in the village of Jabłoń in the Lublin region.Szulc was sent to Auschwitz from Lublin on the 9th of January 1941.On arrival he received the number 9050 and became a prisoner of the camp.The TransportOn the 9th of January 1941 the SIPO and the SD sent 525 prisoners from Lublin to Auschwitz.On arrival they receive the numbers 8608 – 9132.

This number appears twice on the list prepared by the undertaker.Joel Tintpulwer, a Polish Jew, was born on the 18th of March 1896.On the 2nd of August 1944 Tintpulwer was deported to Auschwitz from Kielce forced labor camp . On arrival he passed the selection and received the number 3376B.The final record of him in the camp documents is from the 24th of August 1944 in Trzebionka, a sub-camp of Buna-Monowitz – Auschwitz III.The TransportOn the 2nd of August 1944 an RSHA transport from Kielce - a forced labor camp for Jews - arrived at Auschwitz. On arrival, following the selection, 547 of...

Marius Yungerman arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 24th of May 1944 on a transport of Jews from Hungary. On arrival, he passed the selection, received the number 5779A and became an inmate of the camp.On the 3rd of June 1944 he was transferred to Buna-Monowitz – Auschwitz III.On the 8th of June 1944 it appears that he was transferred from Buna-Monowitz to another sub-camp of Auschwitz.The TransportOn the 24th of May 1944, an RSHA transport of Jews from Hungary arrived at Auschwitz. On arrival, following the selection, 2,000 of the deportees received the numbers 5729A – 7728A. The...

Edward Kusmierczyk was a Polish prisoner.Kusmierczyk arrived at Auschwitz on the 12th of December 1943 on a transport of prisoners from Radom.Camp documents contain a record referring to Kusmierczyk from the 22nd of December 1943 documenting his hospitalisation.The TransportOn the 12th of November 1943 the SIPO and the SD sent 362 Polish prisoners from Radom to Auschwitz. On arrival they received the numbers 16220 – 162581.

Berek Szymankiewicz was a Polish Jew.On the 28th of August 1943 Szymankiewicz was deported from Küstrin labor camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau. On arrival at the camp he passed the selection, received the number 142530 and became an inmate of the camp.Szymankiewicz was transferred to Buna-Monowitz – Auschwitz III.There is a record of his hospitalisation in the camp hospital at Buna-Monowitz on the 29th of February 1944.The TransportOn the 28th of August 1943 800 Jews were sent to Auschwitz on an RSHA transport from Küstrin. Following the selection 667 men received the numbers 141903 – 142569...

Zygmunt Makowski was a Polish prisoner. He was born on the 8th of August 1897 in Zawiercie. Makowski was deported to Auschwitz on the 25th of August 1941 with a group of 63 prisoners from Opola.According to records in the Auschwitz archive, he is recorded as having been murdered near Rybnik during the evacuation of the camp.The TransportOn the 25th of August 1941 63 Polish prisoners were deported by the Gestapo from the prison in Opola to Auschwitz. There was no selection on arrival and all became inmates of the camp, receiving the numbers 20191 – 20253.