This is the fragmentary list of all of the victims and survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp. This list represents only a sample portion of the 1.1 million victims and some survivors of the Auschwitz death camp and is not intended to be viewed as a representative count by any means.
The following victims who were male are signified by the Pale Turquoise background. The female victims are marked by the Light Pink background.
Rosette Wolczak French Jew, age 15, gassed on day of arrival
Name ! Date of birth Ivan Bračanin ! Date of death 1st of September 1939 ! Age 30 ! Ethnicity croatian ! Notability green grocer gassed immediately.
Name Eleanor rottlander ! Date of birth 11th of November ! Date of death 1st of September ! Age 31 ! Ethnicity Austrian ! Notability gassed immediately.
Lowy Adolf - Lang Andras, from Hungary (Miskolc)
Ted Banwell, British soldier and member of Dutch Resistance
Leo Bretholz, Austrian Jew who escaped from train en route; author of Leap into Darkness.
Lowy Dezso, from Hungary (Miskolc) - Jewish accountant
Laure Diebold, French resistant, Compagnon de la Libération
Xawery Dunikowski, Polish sculptor and artist, best known for his Neo-Romantic sculptures and Auschwitz-inspired art. Survived.
Anna Eilenberg-Eibeshitz, Polish-Jewish writer, Auschwitz, survived.
Kurt Epstein, Czechoslovak Jewish Olympic water polo competitor
Hans Frankenthal, German-Jewish author, survived.
Viktor Frankl, Austrian-Jewish neurologist and psychiatrist, survived.
Franciszek Gajowniczek, 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, British anti-fascism campaigner. Survived and died in 2008.
Perry Broad, Brazilian non-commissioned officer SS-Unterscharführer, active at Auschwitz from April 1942 - 1945.
Nicholas (Miklós) Hammer, 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, Romanian-Jewish author and poet, survived.
Ruth Huppert Elias, Czechoslovak-Jewish (from Ostrava), Author of Triumph of Hope - From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel, survived.
Joseph Friedenson, Polish-Jewish (from Łódź), editor of Dos Yiddishe Vort, survived.
Stefan Jaracz, Polish actor and theater director who survived camp but died of Tuberculosis in 1945.
Isabella Katz Leitner Hungarian-Jewish (from Kisvárda), author of Isabella – From Auschwitz to Freedom, survived.
Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel Laureate in Literature for 2002.
Stanisław Kętrzyński, Polish historian and diplomat
Gertrude "Traute" Kleinová, Czechoslovak Jew, 3-time table tennis world champion
Antoni Kocjan, Polish glider constructor and a contributor to the intelligence services of the Polish Home Army. Murdered by Gestapo in 1944.
Abram Korn, Polish-Jewish (from Lipno), author of Abe's Story: A Holocaust Memoir, survived.
Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Polish-Jewish (born in Tyliczi), author of Rena's Promise - A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz, survived.
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter, co-founder the wartime Polish organization Żegota. Released through the efforts of the Polish underground.
Henri Landwirth, Belgian philanthropist and founder of Give Kids the World (survived).
Joel Lebowitz, Mathematical Physicist. Survived. Honors include the Boltzmann Medal, Henri Poincaré Prize, and Max Planck Medal.
Olga Lengyel, Hungarian-Jewish author of Five Chimneys, survived.
Stepan Lenkavsky, Ukrainian nationalist ideologist
Curt Lowens, German-Jewish actor and resistant, survived.
Arnošt Lustig, Czechoslovak and later Czech Jewish writer and novelist, the Holocaust is his lifelong theme, survived.
Branko Lustig, Croatian-American film producer.
Filip Müller, Inmate# 29236; Survivor and author of "Eyewitness Auschwitz – Three Years in the Gas Chambers" 1979
Alfred "Artem" Nakache, 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.
Henry Oertelt, German-Jewish author of An Unbroken Chain incarcerated at Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Golleschau and Flossenburg, survived.
Bernard Offen, (born 1929) Polish documentary filmmaker working in Poland and the United States to create Second Generation Witnesses.
Harry Osers (born 1929) Czech engineer, currently living in Caracas, Venezuela.
Ignacy Oziewicz, (1887–1966) Polish army officer, first commandant of Narodowe Sily Zbrojne
Lev Rebet, (1912–1957) Ukrainian nationalist ideologist.
Bernat Rosner Hungarian-Jewish lawyer, co-author of An uncommon friendship. Survived.
Mira Ryczke Kimmelman German-Jewish (from Danzig), author of Echoes from the Holocaust – a Memoir, survived.
Lowy Sandor, from Hungary (Miskolc) – Jewish lawyer
Vladek and Anja Spiegelman, parents of Art Spiegelman, author of Maus. Vladek Spiegelmann was the central character in 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.
Paul Steinberg, (1880–1964) German-Jewish (born in Berlin), author of Speak You Also - A Survivor's Reckoning, survived.
Hedi Szmuk Fried, Hungarian-Jewish (from Sighet), author of The Road to Auschwitz – Fragments of a Life, survived.
Rebbe Menachem Mendel Taub 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 (July 13, 1927–), 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.
Strasser Julianna Zsuzsanna – Lang Andrasne, from Hungary (Paks)
Dorfsman Ita Hanna – Lodz, from Poland
Bedriska ‘Ishka’ Lavecka (Irene Capek), from Czechslovakia, MBE (28 December 1924 – 19 November 2006) was a Jewish holocaust survivor, humanitarian and local Australian politician.
