page_title: Henryk Mandelbaum
hierarchical_section_title: Henryk Mandelbaum
caption_attribution_description: English: Sonderkommando Henryk Mandelbaum &amp; translator
context_page_description: Henryk Mandelbaum was a Polish survivor of the Holocaust. He was one of the prisoners in the Sonderkommando KL Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who had to work in the crematory. Only 110 out of 2,000 prisoners survived the Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz-Birkenau, as of the death of Dario Gabai in 2020, no former Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando 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 April 22, 1944, in Birkenau.
context_section_description: Henryk Mandelbaum (December 15, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was a Polish survivor of the Holocaust. He was one of the prisoners in the Sonderkommando KL Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who had to work in the crematory. Only 110 out of 2,000 prisoners survived the Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz-Birkenau, as of the death of Dario Gabai in 2020, no former Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando 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 April 22, 1944, in Birkenau.
caption: Sonderkommando Henryk Mandelbaum (left) and translator talk atop the ruins of one of the blasted crematoria at Auschwitz II.
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