Pregnancy was a death-sentence for Jewish women in Auschwitz: all pregnant women — and women with children — were routinely selected for their immediate murder. #WomenintheHolocaust Picture @yadvashem archives.

Nazi officials implemented Jewish badge as a prelude to deporting Jewish people to ghettos and killing centers in German-occupied Europe. The design of the badge varied from region to region. Yellow Star of David with the Dutch words for "Jew" in @auschwitzxhibition

A 52-year-old metal worker Friedrich Hoyer hand-painted this card to his wife while he was imprisoned in the German Nazi camp Dachau as a present for her 50th birthday (1934). Discover more about @auschwitzxhibit's collections in

The @auschwitzxhibit explores the dual identity of #Auschwitz as a physical location—the largest documented mass murder site in human history—and as a symbol of the borderless manifestation of hatred and human barbarity. Learn more about the exhibition at

February 1943 | Jewish siblings Gabi Gucia Szyper (13) and Charles Yehezkel Szyper (3) at their rescuers' Fernande (left) and Henri Vraux's home in Belgium, where they will stay until 1946. Their parents and two siblings (Haya and Naftali) perished during the Holocaust.

A barracks from the Auschwitz III-Monowitz camp, housing those prisoners constructing the IG Farben Buna plant, included in @auschwitzxhibit Learn more about how to visit the exhibition at ➡

February 7, 1943 | 2,000 Polish Jews (men, women and children) arrive in an RSHA transport from the #Bialystok ghetto. Following the selection, 123 men are admitted to the camp. The remaining 1827 deportees are killed in the gas chambers.

February 6, 1943 | 2,000 Jewish men, women and children arrive in #Auschwitz in an RSHA transport from the Bialystok ghetto. 1,868 of these deportees were not selected to become prisoners. They were killed in the gas chambers immediately after going trough the selection.

February 6, 1943 | 3:30 am. A general roll call began in the female camp in Birkenau. Prisoners stood in the snow until 5 pm. They were forced to run back to the camp. SS selected those who could not keep up. They were later murdered in a gas chamber. Many died during the run.

February 6, 1944 | 1,214 Jewish men, women and children from Drancy, occupied France, arrive at #Auschwitz. 999 of them are immediately killed in the gas chambers. The same day 700 Jewish prisoners arrested in Milan & Verona arrive in another transport, 572 of whom are gassed.

February 5, 1943 | The WVHA recommends to camp Kommandants that civilian clothing from the stored possessions of the Polish and Russian prisoners must be given to the newly arrived. The massive deportations lead to problems in supplying them with camp clothing.

Enameled vessel, possession of a deportee that was stored in so-called Kanada storages in the camp. Every object contributes to keeping the memory alive. Collection of the @AuschwitzMuseum displayed at @auschwitzxhibit - NOW OPEN at the @romtoronto 📍

February 5, 1943 | A transport of Poles and Jews from the Zamosc region arrives in Auschwitz with 1000 people. Following the selection process by the SS, 417 of these women and men are killed in the gas chambers.

February 5, 1942 | As a result of hunger, hard labor, illness, and abuse, 41 prisoners die in Auschwitz (34 Poles, four Jews, three Czechs, and eight Russian POWs).

This postcard was written by a Jewish woman Olga Kantor née Frohlich to her daughter, Mimi Binko née Kantor. Olga was an inmate of the Czech Family Camp; she was murdered on March 8, 1944 Original artifact from @MJHnews collections.

February, 1941 | German anti-Nazi photographer Joe Heydecker (25) is ordered to join the propaganda unit at the Warsaw Ghetto. He will manage to take ilegal pictures there and hide them until the war is over. @yadvashem Photo Archive.

Fake showerhead found in the ruins of crematorium II at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau The gas chambers were camouflaged as shower rooms, where victims thought they would get disinfected. Original from the collection of the @AuschwitzMuseum shown at @auschwitzxhibit

Living on starvation diets, working 12-hour days often exposed to the elements, suffering regular beatings, and with minimal medical care, many prisoners quickly declined. Stretchers from the Collection of the @AuschwitzMuseum displayed at @auschwitzxhibit

February 4, 1943 | 890 Jews, 321 men & boys and 569 women & girls, from #Westerbork camp arrive with a RSHA transport from the occupied Netherlands. 48 men & 52 women are admitted to the camp and become prisoners. 790 people, including disabled people and children, are killed.

February 3, 1943 | German troops fighting in Stalingrad, (Russia) surrender; which is a great setback for Germany's war strategy that cannot continue moving eastward. This event will mark the beginning of the end for the Reich.