List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz

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.

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


 * Hedwig Dulberg (7 January 1894 – 1944), German artist
 * Simon Okker (1 June 1881 – 6 March 1944), Dutch Olympic fencer.
 * Lion van Minden (10 June 1880 – 6 September 1944), Dutch Olympic fencer.
 * Max Scheuer, Jewish Austrian footballer.
 * Rosette Wolczak, (1928-1943), died in KZ Auschwitz

Survivors

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Viktor Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997), Austrian-Jewish neurologist and psychiatrist.
 * Hédi Fried (15 June 1924 – 20 November 2022) Hungarian-Jewish (from Sighet), author of The Road to Auschwitz: Fragments of a Life.
 * 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. Author of An Englishman in Auschwitz.
 * Nicholas (Miklós) Hammer,(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 Hellinger
 * Magda Herzberger (February 20, 1926 – April 23, 2021), Romanian-Jewish author and poet.
 * Philomena Franz (1922 - 2022), Sinti writer and activist
 * Joseph Friedenson (1922–2013), Polish-Jewish (from Łódź), editor of Dos Yiddishe Vort.
 * František Getreuer (1906–1945), Czech swimmer and Olympic water polo player, killed in Dachau concentration camp
 * 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.
 * 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 Polish underground.
 * 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.
 * Edward Mosberg (1926-2022), Polish-American Holocaust survivor, educator, and philanthropist
 * 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 Second Generation Witnesses.
 * 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), French nurse, member of the French Resistance.
 * Stanislaw Wygodzki (1923–2012), Polish-Jewish author, survived.