Historical records matching Franceska Mann (Horowitz
About Franceska Mann (Horowitz
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Arriving at Auschwitz in 1943, Polish-Jewish ballet dancer Franceska Mann was ordered to disrobe for the crematorium.
She took off her clothes provocatively to distract the Nazi guard, then snatched the roll-call officer's pistol & shot him dead.
She fired a second shot that wounded an SS sergeant. Other prisoners began to stage a riot which was broken up when the guards opened fire with machine guns. Mann died on the spot.
But she stood up to evil.
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Franceska Mann (Horowitz's Timeline
| 1917 |
February 4, 1917
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Warschau, Warszawa, Wysokomazowiecki, Poland
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| 1943 |
October 23, 1943
Age 26
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Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Lillepolen, Poland
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