Like so many eyewitnesses to the Nazi atrocities, Benjamin has passed away. He heard soldiers talk about transferring inmates to other camps and he decided to join a large group outside waiting to board the trucks for destinations outside the fences of Auschwitz.īenjamin survived the war and went on to live a full life with his family. After the mountain of clothing had been unloaded, Benjamin climbed out and hid for the next ten days. Soon after, Benjamin jumped into a pile of clothes and covered himself up knowing the clothes would be dumped outside the camp fences. Shortly after joining the work detail, he was told the average life span was 90-days before he and the others would be murdered. īenjamin was assigned to a Sonderkommando unit responsible for working the gas chambers and crematorium at Auschwitz. Deported from Romania at the age of fourteen, Benjamin was subjected to imprisonment at several camps before arriving at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. ©️ National Digital Archives, Polan.ĭid you know that while almost impossible, there are several documented successful escapes from KZ Auschwitz II-Birkenau? One of those escapees was Benjamin Samuelson (1925−c. Hitler in conversation with the Italian foreign minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. However, Ciano’s greatest gift to historical posterity was his diary written between 19. Meeting of Hitler and Mussolini in Stępina, Poland. In the end, a family dispute forced Mussolini to permanently dispatch his son-in-law. Ciano’s involvement as a senior Italian diplomat brought him in close contact with Hitler and high-level Nazi party officials. He played a major role as Mussolini’s foreign advisor as well as serving in several important government positions. You may know him better as Mussolini’s son-in-law. While the focus seems to always be on the Italian Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini (1883−1945), one of the recurring Italian political personalities during the 1930s and the war years is Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari. Rarely have books been written about the Soviet Union or even Italy in the same way historians have covered other parts of the European theater (click here to read the blog, Women of the Italian Resistance and here to read The Night Witches). As I’ve pointed out before, most of the stories about the war in Europe during World War II center around the Americans, British, French, and German-occupied countries.
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