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@ramonfliek.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 1:07 AM

October 7, 1944: Jewish prisoners of the #Sonderkommando at #Auschwitz-Birkenau organized a revolt. They set the building of gas chamber and crematorium IV on fire, causing serious damage, as well as attacked the SS men in the vicinity.

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October 7, 1944: Jewish prisoners of the #Sonderkommando at Auschwitz II-Birkenau organized a revolt. They set the building of gas chamber and crematorium IV on fire, causing serious damage, as well as attacked the SS men in the vicinity. A group of prisoners who worked in gas chamber and crematorium II killed a kapo (German prisoner) Karl Toepfer, attacked SS guards, and made an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the furnaces. A group of prisoners cut through the barbed wire fences enclosing the crematorium as well as the adjacent women’s camp and fled in a southerly direction. They encountered a three-man SS patrol, whom they killed with knives: SS-Unterscharführer Rudolf Erler, SS-Unterscharführer Willi Freesei SS-Unterscharführer Josef Purke. The SS chase units caught up with the prisoners some 1.5 km from the crematorium. All were killed. During the revolt and as a result of repressions after it, some 450 Jewish prisoners were killed, among them resistance leaders and organizers of the revolt, including Załmen Gradowski and Józef Deresiński. Four Jewish female prisoners who had smuggled gunpowder from Union-Werke munition factory to the Sonderkommando were later hanged in a public execution. Photo: Crematorium III, Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
@liamomaraiv.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:30 PM

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1944, #Sonderkommando (Jewish slaves working #GasChambers and crematoria) at #AuschwitzBirkenau, revolted. They destroyed the No.4 crematorium, and almost 500 were killed fighting the #Nazi SS. Women from the attached camp who supplied gunpowder were shot.