List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz

This is a list of victims and survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp. This list represents only a portion of the 1.1 million victims and some survivors of the Auschwitz death camp and is not intended to be viewed as a complete accounting.

Victims

 * Władysław Fejkiel, Polish prisoner and chief physician for Auschwitz prisoner infirmary, Block 20 in the main camp in 1944.
 * Lowy Erzsi, Hungarian from Miskolc
 * Eddy Hamel, American soccer right winger (AFC Ajax; killed in Auschwitz)
 * Lowy Mariska, Hungarian from Miskolc
 * Lowy Erzsi, Hungarian from Miskolc
 * Lowy Ella, Hungarian from Miskolc
 * Lowy Lajos - Lang Lajos, Hungarian (Miskolc) – Jewish lawyer
 * Andriy Andriyovych Yushchenko, father of Viktor Yushchenko (third president of Ukraine)
 * Alexander Perle, German Jew, born on 22 May 1899, died on 12 March 1943, murdered in Auschwitz.

Survivors

 * Ted Banwell, British soldier and member of Dutch Resistance
 * Leo Bretholz, Austrian who escaped from train en route; author of Leap into Darkness.
 * Eva Brewster, German-Jewish (born in Berlin), Author of Vanished in Darkness – An Auschwitz Memoir, survived.
 * Thomas Buergenthal Czech Jew, human rights champion, former judge of the International Court of Justice, author of A Lucky Child, interned at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, survived.
 * Józef Cyrankiewicz, later Prime Minister of Poland and Chairman of the Polish Council of State
 * Yehiel De-Nur, Polish-Jewish writer, in Auschwitz for two years, survived, died July 17, 2001.
 * Robert Desnos, French poet. Died of typhoid after the camp's liberation.
 * 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.
 * Kurt Epstein, Czech Jewish Olympic water polo competitor
 * Anne Frank, teenage diarist from Amsterdam, held 7 weeks at Auschwitz, transferred to Bergen-Belsen where she died of Typhus.
 * Hans Frankenthal, German-Jewish author, survived.
 * Viktor Frankl, Austrian 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.
 * 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, Czech-Jewish (from Ostrava), Author of Triumph of Hope - From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel, 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 Kertesz, Hungarian writer, Nobel Laureate in Literature for 2002.
 * Stanisław Kętrzyński, Polish historian and diplomat
 * Gertrude "Traute" Kleinová, Czech 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, Romanian author of Five Chimneys, survived.
 * Stepan Lenkavsky, Ukrainian nationalist ideologist
 * Primo Levi, Italian-Jewish chemist and author, survived.
 * Curt Lowens, German-Jewish actor and resistant, survived.
 * Arnošt Lustig, Czech-Jewish writer and novelist, the Holocaust is his lifelong theme, survived.
 * 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 – Polish novelist and educator.
 * Henry Oertelt, German-Jewish author of An Unbroken Chain incarcerated at Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Golleschau and Flossenburg, survived.
 * Bernard Offen, 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, Polish army officer, first commandant of Narodowe Sily Zbrojne
 * Lev Rebet, 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.
 * Vladek and Anja Spiegelman, parents of Art Spiegelman, author of Maus. Vladek Spiegelmann was the central character in Maus.
 * Józef Szajna Polish scenery designer, stage director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist.
 * Leon Schiller, Polish theater and film director, critic and theoretician. He was also a composer and wrote theater and radio screenplays.
 * Sigmund Sobolewski, known as "Prisoner 88". Was in Auschwitz from June 14, 1940 to November 7, 1944. Non-Jewish prisoner number 88, immortalized in the book "Prisoner 88: The Man in Stripes."
 * Paul Steinberg 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, born 1928. Polish-born businessman. Rescued by the U.S. Army in April 1945. Currently living in Monte Sereno, California, USA.
 * 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 Greek-Jewish (born in Thessaloniki), author of Inside the Gas Chambers – Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz, survived.
 * Rose Warfman (née Gluck), a French nurse, member of the French Resistance
 * Stanislaw Wygodzki, Polish-Jewish author, survived.
 * Lowy Adolf - Lang Andras, Hungarian (Miskolc)
 * Lowy Dezso, Hungarian (Miskolc) - Jewish accountant
 * Lowy Sandor, Hungarian (Miskolc) – Jewish lawyer
 * Strasser Julianna Zsuzsanna – Lang Andrasne, Hungarian (Paks)