Henryk Mandelbaum
Henryk Mandelbaum | |
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| Born | December 15, 1922 |
| Died | June 17, 2008 (aged 85) Bytom, Poland |
| Other names | Prisoner number 181970 |
| Occupations | Witness, educator, former Sonderkommando |
| Organization | Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Board Member) |
| Known for | Survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau |
Henryk Mandelbaum (15 December 1922 – 17 June 2008) was a Polish Holocaust survivor. He was one of the prisoners in the Sonderkommando KL Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who worked in the crematory. Only 110 out of 2,000 Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz-Birkenau survived the war. As of the death of Dario Gabbai in 2020, no former Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommandos are known to be alive.
Mandelbaum was imprisoned as a Polish Jew at the age of 21 years. He fled from the Sosnowiec Ghetto and was reimprisoned on 22 April 1944, in Birkenau.